Page Practice At The Office

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At the office I've started reflecting at the end of the day by writing responses to these four questions:

  1. What has gone well?
  2. What was my part in that?
  3. What would I have changed?
  4. What three things will I do tomorrow?

I've committed to thirty days of this practice. Written reflection has long been a good tool for me. Today was the second day it.

I'm already up for a change.

Usually this would mean that things have gotten challenging and I am folding the tent, but this time I have an idea. I'll keep the questions in mind but follow simpler instructions:

  1. Fill a small page (A5) with recollection of the workday and my role in what happened.
  2. On a sticky note, list three things to do tomorrow.

Done. Boom.

I feel good about this because I'm used to using written reflection in Morning Pages and my Writer's Notebooks. I've done the one for six years, the other for three decades.

But what's the goal?

I don't care. Or rather, I'm putting that question aside for a couple reasons:

  1. I hate goals and feel obligated to them which makes me hate them even more.
  2. I want this to be a practice, the goal of which is _do_ the practice.

What comes of is almost none of my business and beyond my ability to predict. Doing the practice is goal, reward, plan, and everything else. It's also a reason to use more ink which, for me, is the answer to almost all my questions.