Coaching practices for When I Sit Down at Night to Look Back on My Day with God I Tend to Jump Straight to Everything I Did Wrong and I Want to Start Instead by Getting Quiet Noticing His Presence and Naming the Specific Gifts of the Day Before Anything Else

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• When I sit down at night to look back on my day with God, I tend to jump straight to everything I did wrong
• 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 back on my day it’s just a checklist of what I did, and it tells me nothing
• When I look at how I actually behaved today I can only ever do one of two things
• My days just dissolve one into the next with no real reckoning

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Begin with gratitude
   Start the review by recalling specific gifts and good moments of the day.
   The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
3. Review the day following your feelings
   Walk back through the day in sequence, tracking the emotional quality of each moment.
   The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
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. The evening reckoning (examen)
   Audit the day’s actions against your stated intentions — without self-punishment, just honest seeing.
   The Stoic Daily Review
6. The Pythagorean evening examination (Hadot’s version)
   Before sleep, review the day in three questions: Where did I go wrong? What did I succeed at? What remains undone?
   Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises
7. Three good things
   Each evening, write three things that went well and why they happened.
   Gratitude Journaling, Done Well
8. Three good things (what went well)
   Each night, write down three things that went well and why they went well.
   Positive Psychology, Made Practical
9. 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
10. 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

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