How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life pdfdrive com

REFLECTION TIME
Finally, after completing big tasks, learning something new, or finishing up a
meeting:
Amplify the value of the experience by taking a moment to step back and
reflect on your insights. What struck you most? (What will you do differently
as a result?)
If you’re with others, invite them to do it, too.
Robyn is a social entrepreneur whose ventures include founding an
organization that teaches computer programming and business skills to ex-
convicts, enabling them to restart their lives with new purpose. She is one of
those energetic people who seems to never stop moving—except she does stop,
quite deliberately, several times a day, to do precisely this kind of reflection.
Immediately after each major experience of the day—a conversation, something
she’s read—she takes thirty seconds to write down whatever important thoughts
it’s provoked. “It might be the tone in someone’s voice, or the way that one
simple suggestion sparks many others, or an idea planted in my mind by a
passing comment.” And, she says, each time she applies this thirty-second rule,
“it gets a little easier and a little more helpful.”
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Every evening, Robyn also uses a quick reflection practice that she invented,
which she calls “DATE,” an acronym that reminds her to think back on her day
and recall what she’s 
discovered
(“which could be an interesting fact or lesson
learned, or perhaps something I’ll do differently tomorrow”), something she
achieved
, one thing she’s 
thankful
for, and something she wants to remember
that she 
experienced
, whether in her work or beyond. As Robyn says, “I’ve
found this reflection time helps me make each day, good or bad, as valuable and
significant as possible.”

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