We all have natural human needs, instincts, desires and ambitions, and our emotions are symptoms (negative) or manifestations (positive) of how well or how poorly those inherent needs, instincts, desires and ambitions are being met. Learning to use my intellect (rather than my emotions) to determine my actions has not been easy, and I certainly do not do that perfectly. But the only way to improve our emotions is by somehow having our natural human needs, instincts, desires and ambitions satisfied...and learning to employ the *actions* that can truly make that possible seems to me to be the challenge of life.