Do you take time out at the end of each day to reflect on how your day progressed? To evaluate how you navigated through the day’s challenges, to celebrate your victories, acknowledge your challenges and learn your lessons. If you believe in the power of reflection but don’t know which questions to ask, here are options for you to select from to reflect each day and consistently keep moving forward on your self-improvement journey.
Hello and welcome back to the deep dive series on the Being Meraklis podcast. I am Shwetha Sivaraman, your self-awareness coach, here to help you ask the right questions. Today, I will share 5 questions you can reflect on at the end of every day.
Reflecting at the end of the day is not some new concept or the “in” thing these days. Roman empires to philosophers over the centuries have praised the many benefits of self-reflection.
Seneca explains his daily ritual of examining his days, “When the light has been removed and my wife has fallen silent, aware of this habit that’s now mine, I examine my entire day and go back over what I’ve done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by.”
It doesn’t have to be a time-consuming affair; it doesn’t have to take longer than 5-10 minutes, but not sparing those few minutes can have consequences.
A recent Research in call centers demonstrated that employees who spent 15 minutes at the end of the day reflecting about lessons learned performed 23% better after 10 days than those who did not reflect.
Like Margaret J. Wheatley says, “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.”
Reflecting helps us to intentionally plan our future path and action and live life more deliberately. So here are my top 5 questions to reflect on at the end of the day:
The key is to move the needle one inch at a time. No need for drastic transformations, just inch by inch progress and self-improvement, and before you know it, you’ll be a whole other person.
Deep dive on these aspects, make time for self-reflection daily, and find answers within!
This is Shwetha Sivaraman signing off until we meet again, hoping you have a fabulous week ahead.