My inner peace helps me get through anything.

Watch how somebody steady takes bad news. There is a pause. They do not argue with the fact in the first ten minutes, and they do not start solving it in the first thirty seconds either.

That pause is what inner peace actually buys you. Not the absence of the crisis — a gap between the event and your response, wide enough to think inside.

It gets built in quiet times and spent in loud ones, which is the awkward part. The practice happens months before the day it is needed.

Whatever widens that gap for you, do a little of it today, while nothing is wrong.