I am filled with positive actions.

Nobody who swims outdoors in February feels like it on the way down to the water. The feeling arrives about ninety seconds after the shoulders go under, which is far too late to be any use as motivation.

Actions don't wait for the mood to authorise them. That is genuinely good news on the days when the mood is not coming: you can still make the phone call, still put the washing on, still walk to the corner and back.

A day is not built out of the state you were in. It is built out of what got done while the state was going on.