Even your best advice to yourself will sometimes be ignored when emotions run high. This makes quiet daily reflection so critical—it acts as a reset point—a chance to revisit past lessons and gain new insights.

Emotions intensify, cloud, and distort our beliefs. But when we’re calm and reflective, we see things more clearly. We realize that the things we thought we needed, and the things we thought were so terrible, don’t have to make or break us.