Coaching practices for Reviewing the Day with Gratitude

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• The second I sit down to look back on my day my mind goes straight to everything that went wrong, and the whole review curdles into beating myself up
• Every night I close the day by grading myself on what I got done and what I dropped, and it leaves a sour taste
• When I sit down at night to look back on my day with God, I tend to jump straight to everything I did wrong
• My days mostly run together as fine-to-bad, and even when something genuinely good happens it slides off me by bedtime
• My days just dissolve one into the next with no real reckoning

Practices that may help

1. Begin with gratitude
   Start the review by recalling specific gifts and good moments of the day.
   The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
2. Close each day with a karma yoga gratitude practice
   Review the day’s acts as offerings and receive the results — whatever they were — with gratitude.
   Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Selfless Action
3. Become aware of God’s presence and give thanks
   Open the review by pausing, settling, and naming specific gifts from the day.
   The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
4. Three good things
   Each evening, write three things that went well and why they happened.
   Gratitude Journaling, Done Well
5. The evening reckoning (examen)
   Audit the day’s actions against your stated intentions — without self-punishment, just honest seeing.
   The Stoic Daily Review
6. Close with a resolve for tomorrow
   End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
   The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
7. Three good things (what went well)
   Each night, write down three things that went well and why they went well.
   Positive Psychology, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Gratitude for the ordinary
   Deliberately note small, easily-missed goods rather than only the big events.
   Gratitude Journaling, Done Well
10. Three good things
    Each night, write three things that went well and why — retraining attention toward the positive.
    Optimism Training: Building Realistic, Flexible Optimism

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