how was your day? 8 simple questions to discover the meaning of your day

Adapted from The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your Day by Peter Bregman

How was your day?8 simple questions to discover the meaning of your day

After reading Pete Bregman's HBR article, The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your Day, I decided to try and spend ten minutes - at the end of every work day - jotting my answers to the eight simple questions suggested in the article to help me reflect and learn from my day.

I wanted to do this away from my desk and computer so needed to make the questions both memorable and quick to write.

After experimenting with a few different ideas, I discovered that doodling a symbol to represent each question worked really well. Now, I just draw these eight symbols down the margin of my page and write my reflections next to each one.

In the following slides you'll find these eight symbols followed by the question they represent.

Although they're not rocket science (or even neuroscience, as far as I know) if you'd like to learn from today so you can change tomorrow, I hope they may help.

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You will need

10 minutes + you + a pen

Instructions

1 Doodle the symbol2 Read the question3 Write your response

Ready?

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What kind of day has it been?

What successes did you have?

What challenges did you endure?

Who did you interact with?

What did you learn about yourself?

What did you learn about other people?

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Who do you need to respond to?

What will you do differently tomorrow?

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Adapted from The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your Day by Peter Bregman