Each night I sit down with an A6 pocket journal.
- Date
- Five-year goal
- Current bottleneck
- Tempo score (-4 to 4)
- What went well
- What could I have improved
- Then I rewrite my current version of 100 rules
The review takes about 10 minutes.
The rewriting takes the rest. Total: 45 minutes to an hour. Friction is the feature.
I used to think of this as a “daily review.” That name does not capture what is really happening.
I am extracting signal from the static of the day. Don’t waste pain.
One replay is a single data point. A week of replays is a trend. A month of replays is a trajectory.
The replay protocol turns a day I lived through into a day I learned from. Without it, most days just pass.
Your day already contains lessons. The replay is how you find them.
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What would change if you spent 10 minutes replaying each day?
