The document summarizes an article that recommends spending the last five minutes of the workday reflecting on eight questions to help learn from the day. It describes how the author adapted this practice by spending 10 minutes answering the questions and doodling symbols to represent each question rather than writing them out. The symbols and corresponding questions are then listed, including questions about the type of day, successes, challenges, interactions, lessons learned about oneself and others, responses needed, and plans to do differently tomorrow. The purpose is to reflect on and learn from the day in order to change and improve tomorrow.

1. Adapted from The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your Day by Peter Bregman
How was your day?
8 simple questions to discover the meaning of your day

2. After reading Pete Bregman's HBR article, The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your
Day, I decided to try and spend ten minutes - at the end of every work day - jotting my answers to
the eight simple questions suggested in the article to help me reflect and learn from my day.
I wanted to do this away from my desk and computer so needed to make the questions both
memorable and quick to write.
After experimenting with a few different ideas, I discovered that doodling a symbol to represent
each question worked really well. Now, I just draw these eight symbols down the margin of my
page and write my reflections next to each one.
In the following slides you'll find these eight symbols followed by the question they represent.
Although they're not rocket science (or even neuroscience, as far as I know) if you'd like to learn
from today so you can change tomorrow, I hope they may help.
Chris
thischriswood.com

3. You will need
10 minutes + you + a pen

4. Instructions
1 Doodle the symbol
2 Read the question
3 Write your response

5. Ready?

6. ?

7. What kind of day has it been?

9. What successes did you have?

11. What challenges did you endure?

13. Who did you interact with?

15. What did you learn about yourself?

17. What did you learn about other people?

18. " "

19. Who do you need to respond to?

21. What will you do differently tomorrow?

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Adapted from The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your
Day by Peter Bregman