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Time to Reflect
As we enter August, the pace of life slows down somewhat.
Our colleagues and customers are heading off on their summer breaks, giving us time to stop and reflect and maybe even plan a couple of weeks in the sunshine for ourselves.
It is the perfect time to hit that pause button. We are over halfway through the year, September is a great time for relaunching and starting over as we hurtle headlong into Christmas and everything that brings with it.
Reflection should happen at more regular intervals than once per year, to be truly effective, we should build in time for this
The late David B Peterson, Director of Executive Coaching and Leadership at Google for many years, talked about building up the habit of reflection, starting with just one minute per day.
Then building on this one minute and adding in reflection on a more regular basis, for longer periods of time, where you can ask yourself deeper questions to expand your thinking further.
Below, you will find his list of questions, try them out and see what lightbulbs go off in your mind.
Daily (1 minute)
- What new thing did I do today?
- What worked well? What didn’t?
- What did I learn?
- What one thing will I do…
