Daily time for evaluation is so important for me. It helps me learn from both my successes (what worked) and my failures (what didn’t work). It also helps me discover the reasons why my day unfolded the way it did. Were the successes repeatable? Were the failures avoidable? What good decisions did I make? Or, where did I get “off track”?

Without time for evaluation, I tend to keep on spinning through my day without any real purpose or direction: just hoping it all works out. Or worse, I advance with wrong purposes along wrong lines of reasoning and in a wrong state of mind. The pause that evaluation provides grants me the time to readjust my attitude, face my failures,…and begin again. I’m very thankful for and lean heavily upon those times of reflection and learning in the pauses of my busy day.

A short reflection:

BE SLOW – BE LITTLE – BE UNPRODUCTIVE – BE KIND: Be willing to get little or nothing accomplished. BUT do not be willing not to love.