I used to read a lot of books on efficiency, time management, management and the like. But 6 months ago I came up with my own tool, which has become an indispensable self-development technology for me. This is a daily introspection. It brings me great benefits and has replaced all other technologies. I hope he will help you too!

That's how I use this tool. EVERY day at 22:00 my alarm clock goes off on my mobile. Constancy is a must! At this time, I MUST DEFINITELY allocate at least 20-30 minutes to analyze the cases for the day. I carry out the analysis according to the following list and necessarily in writing (for this I have a separate notebook):

1. What did I do right/well? How can these advantages be enhanced in the future?

2. What did I do wrong? What could have been done better? How to deal with similar situations in the future and correct mistakes?

3. What else could be done? Why wasn't this done? How can this situation be avoided in the future?

(This is a mandatory item! You can do nothing all day and go through the first two points like a handsome man).

4. Has the current day brought my long-term goals closer? What had to be done to get even closer to the goals? (Accordingly, you should have goals.)

5. What will I do tomorrow to strengthen my strengths, bypass my weaknesses and get closer to achieving my long-term goals? This item comes as a conclusion from the previous 4.

To further strengthen this point, you can work out the tasks for the next day in the organizer. Very often, we are "sketched" tasks by others, and we do not hesitate to write them down in our organizers. If you look at these tasks with a sober head in a calm atmosphere and analyze them from the point of view of your goals, then you can give up half, and another quarter can be delegated to someone else.

Mandatory rules when performing introspection:

1. Analyze the affairs of the current day only. You will not remember with whom and how you "incorrectly" communicated or had a telephone conversation yesterday. Everything must be done in hot pursuit.

2. Everything is subject to analysis: why do I take a long time to get to work? How many times and who called me? Why did they call me? Could you call someone from the staff? How did the negotiations go, and what did I miss? How to optimize the financial scheme of my companies? How to reduce the tax burden in light of the last payment of income tax?..

I review the calls that I received on my mobile, I look at the mail, the organizer.

3. Do it constantly. It is very difficult to force yourself to do introspection all the time. It often happens that in the evening you are tired and want to rest, there is no strength, you want to eat, etc. But you need to use this tool all the time! Otherwise, it won't be of any use.

4. Do everything in writing.

So the analysis turns out to be deeper and more meaningful, and you can write down for yourself the conclusions and important points that are worth paying attention to.

5. Once a month, it is necessary to review the conclusions (point 5) and analyze whether they have all been fulfilled, whether everything is going smoothly. If not, then you need to set a goal for yourself for a week and focus on one aspect. It is very important. Because we all know that there is a huge difference between how to do it and how I do it.

It would seem that the tool is very simple, but as a result of using it, I got a real benefit:

1. The workload has decreased – I began to abandon a large number of tasks, businesses and projects that contradict my goals.

2. Life has become more conscious – daily analysis very clearly highlights my strengths and weaknesses, right and wrong actions, relationships with time.

3. Daily small improvements – in fact, my system helps to implement the same principle as "kaizen".

4. Before using this tool, I was in Brownian motion – a lot of things, meetings, projects, tasks. After the start of use – everything is laid out on the shelves, it becomes clear and understandable.

I am sure you are well aware of the feeling when you are constantly busy. You do something, it seems, a lot, all day long. But when a year passes and you ask yourself: "What have I achieved this year, what significant things have I done?" – then only a new iPhone and a couple of silly noisy gatherings with friends come to mind, and that's it. But a whole year has passed! And you promise yourself that next year you will fix everything, you will do something meaningful, but this year passes, and nothing really changes. The tool I have described allows you to break this vicious circle.

There is only one difficulty in using this tool – you need to have a sufficiently high level of self-criticism. Checking for self–criticism is the question "what are my weaknesses?" If you don't have any answers to this question, then the tool is hardly for you. And to further simplify the analysis of daily events, you can approach everything that happened from the point of view of such a chain: what did you want to get? – what did you really get? – why did this happen?

Good luck to you.