assessments like that which can be told to somebody else or that we just hold internally done repeatedly throughout the day anywhere from three to six times throughout the day just periodically pinging ourselves maybe you set an alarm or maybe you just decide to every once in a while you know maybe every time you you go into an elevator or every time you go up a flight of stairs you just ask yourself yeah how do I feel right now and thinking about that for a moment and you don't have to write it down although I suppose you could it turns out that just that practice can really enhance our so-called emotional granularity