Coaching practices for Weekly Self Reflection

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  • I keep meaning to step back and take stock, but reflection always loses to whatever’s urgent
  • I’ll do this big thorough reflection once, feel great about it, and then not do it again for three weeks
  • One bad day and I spiral, treating it like proof I’m failing
  • When I look at how I actually behaved today I can only ever do one of two things
  • Every week I hit the same walls and learn nothing

Practices that may help

  1. 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
  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. 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
  4. 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
  5. Run a Friday Reflection
    Each Friday, review what you accomplished, what you learned, and what you would do differently.
    Getting Results the Agile Way (AGS), Made Practical
  6. Do a weekly review every Friday afternoon
    Review last week's time log and set next week's priorities while context is fresh.
    The Time Audit
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. The evening reckoning (examen)
    Audit the day’s actions against your stated intentions — without self-punishment, just honest seeing.
    The Stoic Daily Review
  10. Practice daily self-transcendence
    Each day, do at least one thing whose value is entirely independent of how you felt, performed, or appeared while doing it.
    Logotherapy: Dereflection

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