I struggle with the reflecting what does it mean to reflect how much time should i spend reflecting
that varies depending on what you're reflecting so reflection folks is not about pondering your life
okay that's what it's not reflecting is asking yourself the right questions what happened
why'd that happen what values did we gain out of that what insight did i learn and then it's also
so that's evaluating then there's also an element of reflection that has to do with
opening your eyes to things that you are unable to see where did i start give you a great example
um on december 31st we had a certain number of people in my leadership program
on january 1st we had a certain number of people in my leadership program guess what
it was more than twice as many at the end of the year it's pretty good that's progress now if i
would have isolated it and looked at the number on december 31st i may or may not have been happy
except that when i give myself context and look back and ask myself how much did i actually grow
i was pretty happy then what did i do then i looked at every single promotion we did throughout
the year for the for this program like we're doing right now and i said how many people got in with
that were they interested in that how about that how much time did it take me to do that now you
start getting into the specifics what am i most proud of what did i do what was most creative what
could we reuse what goal did i accomplish what was the hey that's the first time i ever did that
that's pretty good actually i i i really hope um if the reflection session that we did in the
leadership program in december very powerful i go through all this in great detail and i give
you the questions to ask yourself i guarantee you you will not think 2020 was [ __ ] when you go
through that you won't it's impossible because i the questions are designed to make you feel better
not worse and reflection should only make you feel better and if you are feeling worse you're
doing it wrong okay i'm serious reflection is about having the right perspective in evaluating
dispassionately what happened and drawing conclusions that make you feel fulfilled not void
of anything and if you look at them as learning opportunities and you look at them as though you
are getting experience to prepare you for whatever it is that you're doing or to take the next step
or whatever you're gonna you're gonna be happy you will that's what reflecting is about to me now
everybody will have their own definition but uh i really hope i hope you all believe me it's not
the reflection exercise while we did it in december and we did it for annually for 2020 it
has nothing to do with 2020 it has to do with the process and the methodology i give you that you
can apply every day of your life if you wanted to and it's a bit excessive for the questions
that i gave you but it's basically the same process i reflect every day so today guess what
later before i got my going on a dinner date tonight with my wife because she wants to sit
in an igloo it's 30 degrees out but she wants to eat in this igloo thing so we're you know gonna be
the only two people in this thing um but before i go and i do that i'm going to look at what
happened today awesome day drier guy came fix my dryer i could wash and dry clothes now again
got to teach you guys a whole bunch of people still here god you guys god love you still
hanging in there right and taught a lot of people this how many lives that i touch i'm certain that
what i did well like like i've said to you before my words will echo in places i will never visit
right people watch this tomorrow they won't comment that's okay it'll change
their lives it'll change their kids lives their friends lives right all that good stuff okay
what do i got to get you know what do i got to learn from today that show could i have done
it better i watched the tape right you know i zipped through that leadership program should
i spend more time trying to sell that right like i'll evaluate and just think about it
and then i'll learn there's no judgment i will not kick myself i brought it today it's only like 111
right i got the bunch more hours to work this is gonna be a great day and so i do that tomorrow
i'll look back at the whole week right i'll plan forward and each day we'll start the clock again
at the end of the month i'll look back at the month and so on so each day i could spend five
minutes today looking at today right maybe each day five minutes then at the end of the week maybe
15 minutes maybe less maybe more at the month an hour right that kind of stuff good stuff