Look for things that were not good for 3 minutes, and then come up with a solution to the most important problem.
This seems to be by far the best plan. You can’t train many new habits at the same time. Instead, you should focus on 1-3, until you got them down. Habits are involved in many improvement plans if not all. Most improvements are about training yourself to do the right thing reflexively.
Also, reflecting and coming up with plans can take quite a lot of time. Before having the framing of giving myself constructive criticism, I did not end up with concrete improvement plans that often. Part of the reason is that writing out all the things I did and analyzing how I did not achieve my goals, takes a lot of time. That time is better spent actually thinking about concrete plans. By bounding the amount of time you have for identifying a problem, you force yourself to spend more time devising concrete improvement plans. The most important problems will probably be salient and pop out in the 3 minutes.
I have not tried this strategy in this setting yet, but I used it in others, where it worked very well.
How to do a reflection:
Look for things that were not good for 3 minutes, and then come up with a solution to the most important problem.
This seems to be by far the best plan. You can’t train many new habits at the same time. Instead, you should focus on 1-3, until you got them down. Habits are involved in many improvement plans if not all. Most improvements are about training yourself to do the right thing reflexively.
Also, reflecting and coming up with plans can take quite a lot of time. Before having the framing of giving myself constructive criticism, I did not end up with concrete improvement plans that often. Part of the reason is that writing out all the things I did and analyzing how I did not achieve my goals, takes a lot of time. That time is better spent actually thinking about concrete plans. By bounding the amount of time you have for identifying a problem, you force yourself to spend more time devising concrete improvement plans. The most important problems will probably be salient and pop out in the 3 minutes.
I have not tried this strategy in this setting yet, but I used it in others, where it worked very well.