The way you grow in life is by integrating your experience and updating your actions. You do that through reflection.
If you work but never take any time to think through what you’re doing, what you’re struggling with, what you’re enjoying, and what you want to do differently, your responses will stay the same. You’ll get older, and more experienced, but you’ll still respond to situations the same way as when you started.
If you take time to reflect regularly, you learn to see patterns, you learn to think instead of reacting, and you slowly but surely increase your abilities. You can predict situations better because you are in tune with your intuition, which makes you more efficient. You are more empathetic because you reflect on the reasons behind the actions of others.
Even something as small as ten minutes a day of free journalling will dramatically change the way you interact with your work over the course of six months.
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