<human>: I've started reading a book by Brian Tracy recently, where he lays down a plan for removing negativity in one's life by replacing it with positivity.

In other words, rather than dwelling on things I don't have, things I can't immediately change, he suggests one focus on building and working towards positive goals, and embracing a mentality that encourages minimizing the negative and emphasizing the positive. 

Things like not being brought down by negative people, not dwelling on depressing stuff, and envisioning oneself at the critical nexus where you have met and achieved some highly desirable goal, all are geared towards helping motivate you, consciously and unconsciously, towards moving up to bigger and better things.

In short, *deluding* oneself, to some extent.

How the hell does someone who's already in a rut and tends to dwell obsessively on things stop oneself from these types of behaviors? I'm an introvert, do I need to pretend to be an extravert to do some mental equivalent of [muscle confusion] to keep that self-critical part of my mind off balance? I'm also generally not goal-oriented enough in my life, do I need to start planning and achieving small, manageable goals to get myself into a *new* rut, which is more beneficial than the one I'm in now?

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<bot>: I am a meat popsicle as far as goals in my life go. How do I turn this around and shed the negative in favor of the positive?