Keeping your mind fresh and your ideas original is a valuable edge in the competitive world of business. The daily grind of running a business, however, can leave you drained. If you ever played around with your ideas as a kid, using crayons and paper, to draw out your dreams and future, you may have done some mind-mapping without knowing it.

Why is it that you talk and think positively at a conscious level, you visualize your goals, but at the end of the year you are still in the same emotional black hole? According to Eric Robbins M.D the key reason is that we suppress and bury deep within our sub-conscious mind all our anger and fears.

Develop your mindset for loving kindness. Form the habit of being nice to others in spite of their behavior. Develop the mindset for gratitude, which will change your response and perspective towards others who offend you. Refrain from giving unwanted advice. See the good in others, and give them the benefit of the doubt. Be forgiving and forgetful of others wrong doing. Live in the present moment to practice loving kindness.

Depression is about the worst thing you can allow when working on mind development, instead I recommend that you remain positive, set goals, and get out of your rut. You must reject this notion that you cannot or are not able to overcome and adapt.

A little boy went up to his father and asked: “Dad, where did all of my intelligence come from?” The father replied. “Well son, you must have got it from your mother, because I still have mine.