The ware and tear of small stakes tournaments

[BarryLyndon]

I have been reading 2+2 a lot over the past few months and I finally had a few decent cashes to give myself a sufficient bankroll to play small stakes tournaments (I have about 1K). Since those two scores, however, I have been through a 3 week period where playing $10 and some $20 tournaments /$10 SNGs are starting to have its effect on me psychologically. Basically, I get tired of these situations:

1. I advance deep into a tournament holding an average stack without ever really hitting a big hand for a big pot, then go TOTALLY card dead for the next hour; make a good read after an LP push with AJ or A10, lose a 60/40 or even 70/30, two hours of controlling the table with nothing is for naught.

2. Raising UTG with KK/AA like 15 times over the past two weeks, and maybe getting action once, even though I raise with all sorts of hands in a fairly standard TAG paradigm

3. watching donkeys bet 40 into 400 and 100 into 1000 for two hours straight, as they chip up off each other and I can't find a single profitable situation.

4. Getting called down in an instant by K10o off a steal attempt when I had been playing TAG for 40 mintues and my steal attempt is about 30% of my opponent's stack.

5. Watching my opponents chip up from 1500 to 6000 in 10 minutes, where his hands were J9 for top pair calling a raise OOP / AI on the flop, then KQo caling an all in on a A 2 Q from an unkonwn. I take a note on him, but keep picking up trash and then I'm moved.

I'm sure there are two answers: 1. welcome to online poker; 2. think about the long run. That's all well and good, but I can't help but to think that my decisions are effected by this terrible play / my running bad. It also doesn't help that I've been deep 6 times over the past, 10 tournaments, and each of the 6 I had a profitable opportunity where I lost on the right end of an all-in.

I really want to develop a more positive attidue, because I know IMMEDIATELY after a bad steal attempt / FPS / etc. what I am doing wrong in terms of the math, game theory, my opponent, etc. I am aggressive enough and smart enough, I feel, to be a successful tournament player, but I'm a little too hungry and eager, and it seems to be huring my results during this drought of cards / piss poor players I have to deal with. Any advice?