As mentioned yesterday, I I become reflective this time of year and like to set aside some time to look back over the previous year. I have a list of about 20 questions I ask myself this time of year and here’s the second one:

Year End Question #2
What was my worst day at work in 2008?

This question isn’t designed to be as much negative as it is reflective (think of it as feed-forward).  Contrary to the popular saying, experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is the best teacher.  And the truth is, we often learn more from the pain than the pleasure.

And, like question #1, you can change the ‘at work’ part to ‘at home’ or ‘in my marriage’ or ‘as a father’ or to any other domain of your life.  Not a fun question but definitely worth the reflection time, especially if you want to make 2009 better than 2008.

See you tomorrow for question #3.

Nelson

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