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Go reflect, right now.

No seriously, don't even finish reading this post right now. Come back to it later. Take a few minutes from whatever you're doing (which, if you're here, is reading a post that has explicitly told you to do otherwise) and think about you. What the best part about yesterday was, what the worst part about yesterday was. The day before that, and the day before that, if you can remember far back enough.

Start compiling a list of the best parts about each day and the worst parts about each day. What's nice about this from an analytical standpoint is that you are guaranteed data. What's important about this from an analytical standpoint is what you do with said data. How you categorize the bests and worsts. Maybe you interacted with someone you haven't talked to in a while. Maybe you read something that really got you thinking about life. Maybe you're pumped about the Patriots' win against the Jets. Maybe you were really excited about something coming up. Maybe you did nothing yesterday when you had wanted to be active. Maybe you didn't get to that thing you wanted to. Maybe someone really pissed you off.

So spend a few weeks, compiling the bests and worsts of each day. Create categories for them based on what is important to how you live your life, and how you feel about how you live your life. After a few weeks, come back to it and find patterns. That you can't try to control the uncontrollable. That you can control your relationship with people. That sports, music, people, and thinking about things makes you happy, and can also make you upset. Use the patterns to live a better life, to live the way you set out for yourself.

Then, and only can, should you come back and read this post.