I understand that it’s not about fixing your mindset. Still you need to be happy as fuck internally anyway, even if you are stuck in a special, tough, or bad situation.

Being in a good mood is not something external. It is not part of fixing your environment. It may happen as a result of it, but it still cannot be categorized as changing your environment or circumstances to the better.

That said, you need to work on your internal environment, just as you work on the betterment of your external environment or the world that exists outside of your body, if not more.

In other words, you need to fix how happy and in a good mood you really are, with disregard to how screwed up your external reality, environment, or circumstances currently are.

You need to be happy. And you need to be in the best mood possible 24/7.

You don’t have to alter your perception of reality or engage in gaslighting to accomplish that perpetual objective.

You don’t have to distort facts or think that what’s objectively a horrible thing is actually a blessing from a certain point of view in order to be worthy of feeling good.

You don’t have to be over optimistic. You don’t have to trap yourself in never-ending cycles of delusional toxic positivity.

You can be realistic as fuck, and detached from reality enough to stay elated all the time.

That is because you need to be happy in order to maintain basic human functioning. If you acknowledge the fact that depression could be considered a form of brain failure, you would understand that the opposite of depression is not a luxury that you can afford to live normally without.

Aim to reach and maintain being in a good mood every day regardless of what you’re going through.

In other words: Stay cool. Don’t wait for certain stuff to happen first, in order for you to allow yourself to get to a happy place or state. Just attempt to be at maximum level happiness and good mood all the time. Not necessarily without doing anything external that leads to that. This isn’t about fixing your thoughts or becoming more positive or optimistic. It’s about listening to your favorite music if that’s what it takes to make you happy. That high. That euphoria. Get there by any means necessary. (Without drugs, alcohol, or anything harmful of course). Just try to reach it and to stay over there all day long. Negativity, no matter where it comes from, is always wrong. Create the right environment for that of course, but don’t forget to want it first. You can’t get pleasure from something, even if it is most pleasurable to you, without expecting and wanting to get that pleasure in the first place.

The only formula that really works if your account is under 8k followers on Instagram.

Post an epic piece of content, that is not an IGTV video, on Instagram.

Engage in your home feed with other people’s posts on Instagram every day all day long until fatigued.

Do not post more than once per week.

Don’t throw your wisdom in the trash can just because the rule says so.

For example, the rule: Nowadays, not taking any risks is the actual risk, can be something that is crippling instead of liberating if embraced fully or approached the wrong way.

Notice that you don’t have to treat any given rule like gospel. You have to make up your mind in every situation and not rely on the rule to make the decision for you. That said, you don’t have to put yourself in danger to get good results. It only means that you are supposed to not avoid everything that you are sure is for your own good because you might fail several times before you reach the intended outcome. Just don’t be afraid of making mistakes like it’s a college test. But in the meantime, don’t be reckless or self-sabotaging.