Take a few moments to regularly reflect and ponder. Use a journal, if you’d like, to write down and remember, to debrief yourself, if you will, about what has happened over the last few days, weeks, or months.
That begs the question: What is it we should reflect upon? Answer: what you’ve experienced, what’s going well. And when you hit on what’s going well, take the next step to determine how you can make it even better or get more of it. What lessons have you learned? What needs to be remembered? Unless we write things down, time seems to go very fast. Days, weeks, months, quarters, years can feel like they pass in the blink of an eye. When we take time to write things down, it allows us to remember. Each time we reflect on what we’re noting, the rice cooks.
It’s in the rice cooking that creates a probability wave of an insight or idea that bubbles up from something you’ve experienced. However, that can only happen when you take time to ponder. Distance creates perspective. Only when we move beyond something, can our perspective shift and deepen. Take a few moments on a regular basis to write things down and improve the opportunity for gaining greater insight.
Some people are experiencing things they’ve never experienced before. Weather catastrophes come to mind. There are always lessons. Only when you reflect on the experience can you discern the lesson. If we fail to ponder or reflect, we can’t discern, and the value always lies in the discernment. We gain the advantage when we discern A people, A places, and A activities. When we’re busy, overwhelmed, and focusing only on all the stuff there is to do, we’re unable to discern. As a result, we’re unable to gain any advantage.
In all my years of coaching, I’ve never heard a client say, “Man, Ken, I am so overwhelmed with A activities, meeting A people, and going A places.” The triple A, as I call it, never creates overwhelm. Focus on surrendering to the triple As; they will always serve you. We must take time to reflect and ponder to figure out those triple As. I believe that really comes to light in the writing, in the journaling. It helps the writer realize the game can never be won. We only get to play in this thing we call business and life. It’s always the journey; it’s never the destination. We always spend more time in the journey, more time in training and practice than in the game.
Having recently gone through a hurricane, there were plenty of pattern interrupts. Honestly, I don’t realize how far I’m drifting until I’ve drifted really far. The pattern interrupts made that obvious. When I hear a client tell me, “I’m off the path,” that actually indicates they’re back on it. It indicates that they’re aware of the path in the first place. When you don’t have a path—a design—you can never know if you’re following it.
Always take time to ponder and reflect… and write. It’s very easy not to do this—to get caught up in the daily stuff and the distractions. Set time on your calendar now. Give attention to reflecting and pondering.
Be wonderful!
Coach Ken
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