#124 |❓3 Simple Questions to Reflect Your Week in 5 Minutes
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Hello curious minds 🧠
Picking up from last week’s newsletter on running experiments, it’s time to highlight a very important aspect of experiments:
Reflection.
Without it, you will never learn through your actions. To grow is to:
Do → Reflect → Learn → Adjust → Grow (and repeat).
And reflections doesn’t have to take much time. I have been doing weekly reflections for many years and currently it takes me no more than 5 minutes each week; answering 3 simple questions at the end of my Sunday evening.
Reflections give you awareness.
And building this awareness is important because it means you are aware of what’s happening and over time this will become your default. Awareness. You will be aware of:
How’s your relationships going?
How’s work going?
How’s health going?
And more.
The more you practice reflecting, the better you become at being aware of you.
There are infinite number of questions out there you can used to reflect. Ultimately, reflection is a personal exercise. And you should experiment with questions that resonate with you.
But after reading many books and articles on what others have used to reflect, I believe the three questions that I have been using and that I am about to share with you is the 80/20 of reflection. These three questions alone will put you in a forward growth loop.
Two questions to reflect.
One question to adapt and action.
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🧩 Three Simple Questions To Reflect On Your Week
❓Question One: What went well? → Celebrate wins, positivity, and gratitude.
Write down your wins: big or small, personal, or work-related.
Write down moments that made you happy.
What are you grateful for?
❓Question Two: What didn’t go so well? → Challenges, mistakes, and neglect.
What obstacles did you face?
Any mistakes, regrets, or bad habits creeping in?
Did you neglect any part of your life: health, relationships, goals?
Note any negative emotions that kept showing up.
❓Question Three: What changes to make for next week? → Action and experiments.
Use what you learned from the first two questions to plan small adjustments.
Not everything needs to be fixed right away; sometimes just noticing is enough.
The key is to take one small step forward.
Your new actions are not solutions. Instead, treat them like an experiment; try something new and see what happens.
I am always curious about what others are passionate about and what they are currently working on. Hit reply and share what’s been keeping you busy these days. I would love to learn!
With love,
Ryan O. 🎮
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