- Do anything but what you are doing now; that clearly isn't working.
- Stop surfing (the net), start walking. That allows ideas to flex, incubate, formalise and appear at the surface of the mind in a workable form.
- Talk to a true friend: loving, no judging, encouraging and always there for you.
- Get deep sleep and rest so that you can think clearly and small problems no longer loom large.
- Allow time but demand momentum of yourself.
- Ban unhelpful internal dialogue e.g. "other people get all the breaks".
- Turn decisions into actions.