A Time To Reflect...

Sunday is a great time for reflecting on the past week.  Self Reflection is a time for us to sit back and reflect on the past.  We can take stock of the events, people and emotions that drove us the previous week. This is an important part of growing and expanding our knowledge.  If you take the time to look at the past and learn from it the act of reflection can help you to obtain your goals now and in the future.    

How can we do this productively so that this helps us to grow into a better person in our business and personal lives?  We want to look at three things that occurred events, people and emotions in the past.  Once we do this we need to examine and reflect learning from the mistakes and growing with the triumphs.

    1.         Who were the people that were in our lives last week? – Think back on the people that were in your life last week and reflect on these interactions.  Were they positive or negative?  Where there lessons to be learned from these interactions?

    2.       Where their significant influencers/positive people in my life last week? - When reflecting on the positive influencers what did they teach you?  How can you learn from these interactions?

    3.       Where there conflicted or negative people? – Take a look at the negative influences and reflect on how you can learn from these interactions.  How could you approach these people differently etc…?

    4.       What happened last week? – Look back on the events of last week.  What were the positive events and the negative events?

    5.       Reflect on the positive events - Reflect on the positive events.  Give yourself a pat on the back for all your victories and accomplishments.  Now think about how you can create more positive events in the week to come.

     6.       How do we decrease the negative events? – Take a good hard look at the negative events that happen last week.  What did you learn from these events?  How can you change these in the future to create more positive events?  What did you learn?

     7.       What was I feeling last week? - Now reflect on all of the emotions that you felt last week.  What were the good emotions?  What were that negative emotions?

     8.       How can I create more of these good feeling – Think about the positive emotions.  How can you create more of these positive emotions this week?

     9.       How can I decrease the negative emotions? – Reflect on the negative emotions such as stress, anger, frustration.  Now ask yourself what you can do to decrease these for the coming week.  How can you approach things, people, and events to move these negative emotions to positive emotions?

     10.      Last but not least leave the past behind and take the lessons learned to move forward in a positive state of mind

Learning from the past is essential for us to grow and expand our knowledge.  The important thing to remember is how to use the past for growth and move on.   Learn from the past, Live in the present and Plan for the future.