Practice tool · 10 minutes
The reflection loop
Turn one recent experience into something you know — and something you will do. Experience → Reflection → Learning → Adjustment → Next action.
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Turn one recent experience into something you know — and something you will do.
Experience → Reflection → Learning → Adjustment → Next action. Pick something that happened this week, big or small.
The questions
- Experience — what happened? The facts first, as a neutral observer would describe them.
- Reflection — why do you think it happened, and how did it feel?
- Learning — what did you learn?
- Adjustment — what will you change?
- Next action — what will you do next, and when?
Afterwards
Turn your answer into one next step, and take it to My Journal.
Lessons behind this tool
- Why reflection matters — Experience alone doesn’t teach. Experience you think about does. (7 min)
- What happened, why, what did I learn, what would I change — Four questions that turn almost any experience into something useful. (7 min)
- Reflection vs rumination — Reflection moves toward a next step. Rumination circles the same painful question. (8 min)