Coaching practices for The Daily Examen Reviewing the Day After a Setback
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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
- When I look at how I actually behaved today I can only ever do one of two things
- 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
- I’ll do this big thorough reflection once, feel great about it, and then not do it again for three weeks
- My days just dissolve one into the next with no real reckoning
Practices that may help
- The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials. - Begin with gratitude
Start the review by recalling specific gifts and good moments of the day.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - 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 - 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 - Keep it brief and daily
Do a short Examen most days rather than a long one occasionally.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - The evening reckoning (examen)
Audit the day’s actions against your stated intentions — without self-punishment, just honest seeing.
The Stoic Daily Review - Close with a resolve for tomorrow
End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - 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 - Weekly trend analysis from daily scores
Review your scores at the end of each week to spot patterns rather than reacting to single-day noise.
The Morning Questions - 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
Related concerns
- The Daily Examen Reviewing The Day After A Loss
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
- The Daily Examen Reviewing The Day Under Stress
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
- The Daily Examen Reviewing The Day At Work
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
- The Daily Examen Reviewing The Day Before Bed
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
- The Daily Examen Reviewing The Day During Conflict
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
- The Daily Examen Reviewing The Day For My Teenager
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
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