Coaching practices for Reviewing Your Day

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

• 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
• By the time night comes my whole day has blurred into one undifferentiated "fine" or "rough," and I couldn’t actually tell you what happened in it
• My days just dissolve one into the next with no real reckoning
• I reflect on my day and feel all these feelings about it, and then tomorrow plays out exactly the same
• When I look back on my day it’s either all the ways I screwed up or a vague "it was fine"

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. Replay the day with honest attention
   Walk back through the day’s events and notice them without rushing to judge.
   The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
3. The evening reckoning (examen)
   Audit the day’s actions against your stated intentions — without self-punishment, just honest seeing.
   The Stoic Daily Review
4. Close with a resolve for tomorrow
   End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
   The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
5. The three-question evening review
   Ask three questions before sleep: What did I do wrong? What did I succeed at? What could I have done better?
   The Pythagorean Evening 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. Review the day each night
   Before sleep, put the day on trial: what did I do well, what badly, what will I do differently?
   Seneca on Time, Made Practical
8. 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
9. 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
10. Evaluate your three outcomes at day’s end
    A brief end-of-day check against your three outcomes closes cognitive loops and reveals what planning adjustments to make tomorrow.
    The Rule of Three for Productivity, Made Practical

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