How Self-Reflection Gives You a Happier and More Successful Life
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What Self-Reflection Is
Is the process of thinking back on previous events and interpreting them through your experience.
It’s about taking a step back and reflecting on your life, behavior and beliefs.
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The Importance of Self-Reflection
- It improve self-awareness.
- It allows you to understand and see things from a different point of view.
- It allows you to respond, not react.
- It facilitates a deeper level of learning.
- It improves confidence.
- It makes you challenge your assumptions.
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The Process of Self-Reflection
- STOP: Take a step back from life or a particular situation.
- LOOK: Identify and get perspective on what you notice and see.
- LISTEN: Listen to your inner guide, the innate wisdom that bubbles up when you give it time and space to emerge.
- ACT: Identify the steps you need to take moving forward to adjust, change or improve.
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What to Reflect On
- Reflect on YOU. This includes who you are and what you want for your life.
- Reflect on the areas of your life that are important to you. This might include your relationships, home and family, career, health and well-being, finances, goals, spirituality and person growth, and fun and recreation.
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Questions to Ask in Self-Reflection
- How do I feel overall about this area of my life?
- What’s working? What’s not working?
- What do I want more of – or less of?
- What are my accomplishments?
- What do I want? What are my hopes or goals?
- What am I grateful for?
- How would I improve this area of my life? What actions can I take?
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When to Self-Reflect
- New Years: reflect on the year that has passed and identify what you want (your intentions, goals, desires) in the year ahead.
- Milestones: birthdays, anniversaries, the Spring equinox, a religious holiday or any date that has significance or importance to you.
- Monthly or Weekly: like Sunday to reflect on the week before.
- A daily practice of self-reflection is probably one of the best ways to create a habit.
- After an ‘Event’: a terrible work meeting or a bad interaction with someone.
- Whenever you feel like you’re off track, unhappy, stressed or demotivated, it’s time to take a step back, reflect and regroup.
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Self-Reflection Tips
- Grab a Journal: when you see something, you are able to process it in a different way.
- Schedule uninterrupted time where you have space, feel quiet and can focus.
- Join a group or find someone to do this with.
- Take the stance of a neutral observer. When you step back from a situation and view things as if you were a fly on the wall, it’s incredibly insightful.
- Meditate. Something powerful happens when you don’t ‘think’ about something. Things bubble up.
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