What is a Reflection?

Embrace some reflective thinking

Reflective thinking means to ponder and evaluate what you’re doing. To use a metaphor, reflective thinking is like the crock-pot of your mind where your thoughts simmer and stew until they are fully done.

Since society moves at a rapid pace, few people take the time to reflect on what they do. This is unfortunate, because reflective thinking can add much:

Reflective thinking gives true perspective – it helps separate the trivial from the important.
Reflective thinking generates emotional integrity – it helps you distance yourself from the immediate demands and stay true to your values.
Reflective thinking increases your self confidence – you become more assured you won’t make snap judgements that later turn out to be disasters.
Reflective thinking brings the big picture into focus – and helps you put ideas and experiences into context.
Reflective thinking helps you turn your experiences into valuable insights.

To increase your ability to engage in reflective thinking.

Set aside some time for reflection on a regular basis – free from all other pressures and demands. Remove yourself from distractions – because you can’t be reflective when interrupted.
Review your calendar or journal – and evaluate how you’ve used your time, how that matches your priorities and whether or not you feel like you’re making progress.
Ask the kind of questions that make you think – like: • What have I learned lately that will help me grow? • How have I added value to another person’s life recently? • Did I lead by example this past week?
Come up with your action plans for the future – how you plan on putting your good ideas and intentions into concrete action in the near future. This will accelerate your learning.

You probably know what you want and need in life:

Being more organized, developing your career, becoming a better communicator, overcome bad habits, be happier, or be more self-confident.

However, getting there might be hard in the short and long term, as it requires effort, practice, and some guidance. It may seem very frustrating to approach this journey.
One powerful method to build a habit to grow and self-improve is journaling.

Journal Every Day is a Keystone Habit to Help you Achieving your Goals

"Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them." -- Stephen R.Covey

By building up your journal and investing daily 10 minutes you will be able to leverage on your goals and improve and here is why:

Journaling Optimizes Your Creative Potential

Detach from consuming news or surfing through the internet and use the time to think, reflect, and articulate thoughts. Instead, a few minutes a day can help to structure your upcoming day and learn of what happened recently and how you can tackle this in the future.

Journaling Helps to Recover Daily and to Clear Emotions

As a post-work reflection, it helps you to detach from the work, to understand what has been done well, to consider where to continue adding a focus. And at the same time, you can more fully experience and appreciate your emotions.

Journaling Generates Clarity and Focus

By journaling in the morning and evening, you will detect what impacts you and understand what matters. By that, you will understand easier what needs to be removed and what should be included in your life. This self-discovery will improve your ability to make small and large decisions better.

Journaling Fosters Learning

The act of writing allows your subconscious mind to discover and proceed through challenges to enhance your learning process. You'll be able to work out problems and get insights while you reflect and write about the things you're learning.

Journaling Increases Your Gratitude

Many people go through challenges and have difficulties in their life. However, when reflecting on these challenges, you start a process that will make you better and stronger. You will understand what you are doing already well and in which areas you might further improve your potential.