Reflect: review and adjust daily

Each evening, note what worked, what didn’t, and tweak tomorrow’s tactics.

Why it works

The framework is explicitly experimental: there’s no universal best set of tactics, so the reflection step turns each day into a small experiment whose result tunes the next. Brief, regular review surfaces which tactics actually move your focus for you, converting guesswork into a personalized system over time.

How to do it

1. Each evening, jot whether you protected your Highlight and how your energy felt.
2. Note which one tactic helped and which to try tomorrow.
3. Keep it short — the point is continuity, not a journaling project.

Evidence

Aligns with research on self-monitoring and reflective practice improving goal progress, and with the broader value of feedback loops in skill development. (observational)

Self-monitoring effects are real but vary; the specific four-question Reflect format is the authors’ convention, not a tested instrument.

Common mistake

Skipping reflection and re-running the same tactics on autopilot, so you never learn which ones actually work for you.