Background:

We learn new things every day, but sometimes we do not really reflect on all of wonderful lessons we learn. Maybe we take them for granted, maybe it’s laziness, or maybe we do not have a culture of reflection. I’m guilty of this myself. Regardless of the reason, this month I have been challenged to reflect more deeply on the lessons I learn on a daily basis.

Successful?

I will admit that this challenge was a total failure. I went the first 11 days without reflecting once and then tried to backtrack and make up lessons for each of those 11 days. Please with myself, I was sure I was going to turn the challenge around. Of course, I did not.

As I reflect now on this epic failure, I’m not entirely sure why I was so unsuccessful. I always thought that I was pretty good at reflecting on events on a daily/nightly basis, but it appears that I was wrong about this. Maybe I felt the act of writing all of this down unnecessary and then my learned lessons were forgotten? Maybe it was laziness after all? Maybe I just do not have the culture of reflecting in me? Who knows… This was a bit of a wakeup call as I had not failed so badly at a challenge in a very long time. What was it about trying to reflect daily that I was incapable of doing?