Coaching practices for Chapter Exercise Self Reflection

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I reflect every night and have all these insights about what I’d do differently, but nothing ever actually changes
  • I’ll do this big thorough reflection once, feel great about it, and then not do it again for three weeks
  • When I look at how I actually behaved today I can only ever do one of two things
  • I keep meaning to step back and take stock, but reflection always loses to whatever’s urgent
  • Whenever I review my own day I quietly spin everything to make myself look better, and I know it

Practices that may help

  1. End every review with a single resolved next action
    The review is incomplete until you name one specific thing you will do differently tomorrow.
    The Pythagorean Evening Review
  2. Keep it brief and daily
    Do a short Examen most days rather than a long one occasionally.
    The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
  3. Look honestly at your responses
    Face where you fell short and where you acted well, without spiraling into either.
    The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
  4. Build a weekly reflection ritual so the cycle runs regularly
    Schedule a fixed reflection window so the four stages happen as a routine, not an afterthought.
    Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice
  5. Ask for clarity and honest perception
    Before reviewing, pause to ask for the capacity to see honestly rather than defensively.
    The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
  6. The daily examen (end-of-day review)
    Spend five minutes each evening reviewing where you were most and least true to yourself today.
    Svadhyaya: Self-Study as a Daily Practice
  7. Close with a resolve for tomorrow
    End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
    The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
  8. Post-session reflection
    Immediately after a learning session, evaluate what you learned, what strategies worked, and what to do next.
    Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn
  9. Seneca’s evening court — judge the day as an honest prosecutor
    Review the day as a fair judge would: what was the evidence, what was the verdict, what is the sentence?
    The Pythagorean Evening Review
  10. Debrief each session with a structured reflection
    Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
    Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability

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