The mind will naturally bring up (and then hold in consciousness) the relevant ideas it is working on—for instance, an idea of the kind of person I am right now (sad and lonely), an idea of the kind of person I want to be (peaceful and happy), and an idea of the kind of person I fear I might become if the sadness persists and I sink into depression (pathetic and weak). The doing mode then focuses on the mismatch between these ideas, the ways in which we are not the people we want to be.
