"What would I tell my Best Friend to do?"

Got this from the PINKCAST - a means to look at the problem slightly differently, to some extent, from a more "neutral" perspective - the technique is known as self-distancing - so that we can prevent ourselves from 'sinking' in the problem.

Come to think about it, it's like talking to the yellow duck. Talk it out - have an audience. 

But now, using the duck as a friend, 'displace' the problem to it so that it would turn out to be the one that has a problem needed some advice from us.