Rana el Kaliouby Quotes

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

I realized that therapy helps me explain what I'm feeling better.

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.

I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

Knowing ourselves and how we feel can help us improve.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

I have really focused on mindfulness. That helps me make better choices both physically, psychologically, and emotionally.

I feel like I'd invested so much in the physical side of my life: running marathons - I brought a SEAL into my house - I have a trainer. But I've invested very little on the inner work, and in a world of distractions, I felt like to have the whole picture, I really had to spend a little time alone and work on being present.

I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.

I run skills-building programs focused on healthy risk taking, failure resilience, and self-care for undergraduates around the country.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

I've always written down how I feel.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.