Your year taught you something. Here’s how to see it. 👀

THE ART & SCIENCE OF LEADING SELF
The Power of a Reflective Practice

My friend, if you’re celebrating, I want to wish you a warm and joy-filled Hanukkah. 🕎 

One thing I’ve always appreciated about Jewish tradition is the way it treats questions. Instead of rushing toward answers, there is a practice of turning a question over slowly, looking at it from different sides, and allowing it to reveal insight in its own time.

Well, that spirit of curiosity is at the heart of reflection, a key component of leadership. And as we move toward the end of the year, this practice becomes even more important.

Why Reflection Matters 🧐

The final stretch of the year routinely brings both momentum and fatigue.

Your calendar fills, your pace quickens, and the instinct is to orient your gaze forward. But growth doesn’t only come from the next step. Sustainable growth comes from understanding the steps you’ve already taken.

Reflection gives you a chance to pause long enough to notice the patterns that shaped you this year.

It helps you examine the stories you told yourself, the emotions that guided your choices, and the assumptions that sat quietly underneath your decisions.

Most people assume experience leads to wisdom. It doesn’t. Examined experience leads to wisdom.

What Reflective Practice Actually Is 👁

At its core, a reflective practice is a deliberate return to your own lived moments. It’s looking back at an experience with attention, curiosity, and honesty. You’re not judging yourself. You’re observing yourself.

And that distinction matters.

👉🏽 Reflection and mindfulness strengthen each other. As your mindfulness grows, your capacity for reflection deepens, and the more you reflect, the stronger your mindfulness becomes. 👈🏽

👉🏽 The same mutual reinforcement shows up in the subject–object shift: reflection gives you the distance to observe yourself, and that observation sharpens your reflection. 👈🏽

This is the same foundation we’ve been building together through the Mindset House we have been constructing the last few months.

Bottom line: Without reflection, familiar patterns tend to run the show. With it, you cultivate the capacity to operate from a place of choice.

A Simple Framework You Can Use Today 🌱

So, how can you start a reflective practice (if you don’t have one) or deepen an existing one?

Here’s one way. It’s simple, memorable, and rooted in the kind of awareness that deepens self-leadership.

1️⃣ What happened?

Describe the situation honestly and without interpretation. Stick to just the facts. This lowers the emotional charge and grounds you in clarity.

2️⃣ What do you notice as you look back?

Explore what was happening inside you. What beliefs rose up? What emotions took the lead? What assumptions shaped your response? This strengthens your ability to exercise the subject–object shift.

3️⃣ What will you carry forward?

Identify what learning you will take with you as you move forward. And just as important, identify what you are willing to release.

Reflection is not about polishing the past. It’s about preparing your future self.

Why This Matters for Your Leadership 💡

The world is not getting quieter. The volume is only growing. Reflection gives your mind a place to land. It supports you in turning scattered experience into meaningful insight. It helps you see what strengthened you, what stretched you, and what shaped the leader you are becoming.

As you know, my definition of self-leadership is:

Reflection equips you to do exactly that.

Thus, I want to offer you a question to explore in your reflective practice as the close of 2025 fast approaches:

What did this year help you notice about how you lead yourself?

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD 📢

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