Now this might be silly or some kind of placebo effect; Exercise. I don't know why, but I run for 30 min to an hour every morning and afterwards I feel so much better about everything. Whenever I eat salads and apples or oranges instead of cookies, I tend to stay more on track with what I am doing. I stopped buy fast food and cooking at home with actual ingredients, and I sleep more sound and wake up more relaxed. Might not work for everyone, and it may be a placebo effect, but the running and changing my food is keeping me remembering all the anime that was on Netflix.
I was thinking of writing the same thing. I used to be very unhealthy (I wasn't really overweight either, just not healthy) - I ate junk, drank too much coffee and energy drinks, stayed up late for no good reason, slept randomly. I was depressed and angsty and I listened to music that made me more agitated and angry or ska which was just sort of like a musical manic sugar high. I was hyper and easily annoyed or totally down and wasted a lot of time and energy.
One day I just wanted to get outside so I went for a very half-hearted jog, slowly overtime I started to enjoy it more. Now, my life is very busy but I still make time to lift weights or jog every day. I still enjoy some junk on occasion, but I mostly eat healthy food. It's not just good for you for losing weight and stuff (which is what I used to think, which seemed not worth it) - but for your mood.
I have more motivation and handle stress better just from changing my diet. The exercise just adds to that. My life isn't perfect but I handle crap better than before.
Without writing a giant health article:
more protein / less carbs - less hungry/less spikes and crashes in energy level - i used to eat oatmeal thinking i was being good but then i was cranky and hungry at 10am
hemp seeds - super magical power seeds that give you 12 hours of energy
green tea - better than coffee
coconut oil - metabolism equalizing and high energy
having structure and routine has helped me too. i write a to-do list each night and in the morning i get up and do the things on it. offsetting the "deciding-to-do" from the "doing" like this has helped me. if i put "write a song" on the list i have to write a song. i say to myself "i feel really sad, and i just want to lie down in bed, and i totally don't want to write a song. that's fine, but i'm going to write a song anyway" ... this might seem like positive psychology but it's subtly different to me, i probably just havent communicated it very well
Agreed here too. To do lists are super helpful. I kind of view each day like a RPG. These are my mission objectives. And I'm also gonna build my character stats...it makes all that passion i have for old games serve a purpose in my day-to-day life. no one around me has to know i see it like that..but it keeps me motivated.
start iPod full of 16-bit RPG soundtracks...