Need to analyze situations outside of myself

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I can be quite analytical when I'm using my past experiences to give advice to others online. I'm able to analyze the situation objectively & understand why choices & decisions I made screwed things up. I can give some good advice to others on how to handle those situations & deal with those issues. However I tend to lose that analytical ability when I am personally involved in the situation. My emotions cloud my judgement & I do not think clearly or objectively. I am kind of hypocritical because I can not take the advice I would give to others. If I could learn to look at my situations as if I am helping others instead of being personally involved in it & I could applly that advice to myself; I could handle things a lot better than I do now. Does anyone have any tips on how I can train myself to remove myself from the situations to be analytical & objective

I'm the same way. I bet most people are. It's hard to have any distance from yourself.

Three ideas:
watching movies, especially documentaries, or reading books, especially autobiographies, about people facing problems very similar to your own and "taking notes" on how they deal with them

Writing to yourself, making diagrams, imagining what advice you would give if someone you know and care about was in the exact same situation as you

Connecting with people with similar problems (such as here on WP) and trying to figure out what would help them. It may be that the same exact thing or some variation would help you.

It's always tougher to solve your own problems than other people's. The stress of the problem and the myopic view of the situation makes objective reasoning difficult to impossible sometimes. It helps sometimes to imagine that someone has come to you describing the exact problem you're having. Write down whatever situation you're in, and then read it back to yourself as if you just saw it for the first time, then imagine what you'd say to that person who wrote it to you. Your immediate reaction will be "No, no, THAT won't work at all!" Look at it again. Will it really not work, or are you not letting yourself see what you really have to do?