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One of the great joys of working side by side with Chris (Barrow) now is the things that I get to see that I didn't pay attention to before, in the format that he has for his coaching and his mentoring of colleagues, friends, clients, peers, etc (Chris, I know you'll read this, thanks).
One of the things that Chris does is a weekly review of his work and life, etc. He encourages his clients to do the same and gives them a format to do this, and some of them do, and some of them don't, and some of them post it to Chris as he instructs them, but the real joy about this is the doing of it.
This is something we all know would probably be a good idea, and we've all probably heard someone recommending it before, but just to take a quiet moment at the end of each week to write down what the wins were, what the losses were, what you promised you would do that you didn't, what you've been promised that you would do that you did and what you promise that you will do next week to be a little bit better, is an extraordinary act of intention.
While I have not even yet reached this position of writing down these things as Chris does (and I absolutely should), I have started to do this regularly now, as I walk the dogs early on a Saturday or Sunday morning, to reflect like this is to get better, to reflect like this is to be honest and to be self-aware. It is definitely a tool that everyone could use productively and beautifully, something that we should probably teach our kids. Another thing that we should teach our kids, amongst all the things that we teach to our kids, that we shouldn't.
Blog Post Number - 4542