When you were younger, did you use to keep a diary of all your private thoughts? It would include things like what you and your friends did that day, your current crushes, complaints about teachers giving you the most grief, and anything special or unique happening in your day-to-day at the time. Pulling out and reading your old diary can undoubtedly inspire a trip down memory lane. However, at some point in your life, the diary got put away, only never to be written in again. Why’s that?

As we roll into another new year, the same refrains echo across the office, in our classrooms, at home, and everywhere you go: what are your New Year’s resolutions? New year, new you, right? What do you hope to achieve that is different from last year? What are your goals? Yes, the same song and dance at the beginning of every year can get tiring. Yet, there’s a particular benefit to this societal ritual that everyone goes through; it’s a chance at self-reflection. Not only tha