Daily analysis as a development technology

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

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I used to read a lot of books on efficiency, time management, management and the like. But 6 months ago I came up with my own tool, which has become an indispensable technology for self-development for me. This is daily introspection. It is of great benefit to me and has replaced all other technologies. Hope it helps you too!

This is how I use this tool. EVERY day at 22:00 my alarm goes off on my mobile. Consistency is a must! During this time, I MUST set aside at least 20-30 minutes to analyze the cases for the day. I carry out the analysis according to the following list and always in writing (for this I have a separate notebook):

1. What did I do right / well? How can these benefits be enhanced in the future?

2. What did I do wrong? What could have been done better? How to proceed in such situations in the future and correct mistakes?

3. What else could be done? Why hasn't it been done? How can this situation be avoided in the future?

(This is a mandatory item! You can not do a fig all day and go through the first two items like a handsome man).

4. Has the current day brought my long-term goals closer? What should have been done to get even closer to the goals? (Accordingly, you must have goals.)

5. What will I do tomorrow to strengthen strengths, work around weaknesses, and move closer to achieving my long-term goals? This point comes as a conclusion from the previous 4.

To further strengthen this point, you can work through the tasks for the next day in the organizer. Very often we are "sketched" by the tasks around us, and we, without hesitation, write them down in our organizers. If you look at these tasks with a sober head in a calm atmosphere and analyze them from the point of view of your goals, then half can be abandoned, and another quarter can be delegated to someone else.

Mandatory rules for introspection:

1. Analyze the affairs of the current day only. You will not remember with whom and how you "incorrectly" communicated or had a telephone conversation yesterday. Everything should be done in hot pursuit.

2. Everything is subject to analysis: why does it take a long time to get to work? How many times and who called me? Why did they call me? Could you call someone from the staff? How did the negotiations go and what did I miss? How can I optimize the financial structure of my companies? How to reduce the tax burden in the light of the last income tax payment?..

I am reviewing the calls that I received on my mobile, looking at my mail, organizer.

3. Do it constantly. It is very difficult to force yourself to do self-examination all the time. It often happens that in the evening you are tired and want to rest, you have no strength, you want to eat, etc. But you need to use this tool constantly! Otherwise, there will be no sense from it.

4. Do everything in writing.

So the analysis turns out deeper and more meaningful, and you can write down for yourself the conclusions and important points that are worth paying attention to.

5. Once a month, you need to revise the conclusions (point 5) and analyze whether they have all been implemented, whether everything is going smoothly. If not, then you need to set a goal for yourself for the week and focus on one aspect. It is very important. Because we all know that there is a huge difference between how you should do it and how I do it.

It would seem that the tool is very simple, but as a result of using it, I got real benefits:

1. The workload has decreased - I began to refuse a large number of tasks, businesses and projects that contradict my goals.

2. Life has become more conscious - daily analysis very clearly emphasizes my strengths and weaknesses, right and wrong actions, my relationship with time.

3. Small daily improvements - in fact, my system helps to implement the same principle as "kaizen".

4. Before using this tool, I was in the Brownian motion - a lot of things, meetings, projects, tasks. After the start of use, everything is laid out on the shelves, it becomes clear and understandable.

I'm sure you are well aware of the feeling when you are constantly busy. You do something, like a lot, all day long. But when a year passes and you ask yourself: "What have I achieved this year, what have I done significant?" - then only a new iPhone and a couple of stupid noisy gatherings with friends come to mind, and that's it. But a whole year has passed! And you give yourself a word that next year you will fix everything, you will do something meaningful, but this year goes by, and nothing really changes. The tool I have described allows you to break this vicious circle.

There is only one difficulty in using this tool - you need to have a sufficiently high level of self-criticism. Self-criticism test - the question "what are my weak points?" If you don't have a single answer to this question, then the tool is unlikely for you. And to further simplify the analysis of daily events, you can approach everything that happened from the point of view of such a chain: what did you want to get? - what did you really get? - why did it happen?

I wish you success.