One of the benefits of daily reflection is you can more quickly identify slumps… plateaus… ruts.
The daily space created for inward looking allows you to more easily notice repeated patterns, downward trends, boring and monotonous ways of living.
…And you can more quickly act on this information and shake things up. You can change a routine, take a different approach, book a trip somewhere different, go and see a show or performance, set up a conversation with someone you haven’t chatted with before or in a long time, and so on.
When you’re fully immersed in the ceaseless urgent… it’s hard to notice any kind of trend. Trends are only noticed when you zoom out… when you can widen your vision from being focused only on one dot at a time to finally being able to see two… three… five… ten dots—only then can you see how they relate to one another.
Don’t get lost or lose your way looking only at one dot at a time.
…Make space to see how all the dots relate.