How Self Reflection Can Help You With Your Goals

Looking back might be the key to moving forward. While self-reflection and goal setting seem like two opposite concepts, these two go hand in hand. Reflecting is a powerful practice that can help you achieve your goals.

As we explore the topic of self-reflection, we will discuss the following:

• What is Self-Reflection?
• The Value of Self-Reflection
• How Self-Reflections Helps You Achieve Your Goals

What is Self-Reflection?

Self-reflection is the practice of thinking back on past situations, thoughts, and actions in a positive and unbiased way to determine the things you did well and the things which need improvement.

Reflecting involves asking yourself several questions that allow you to analyze your past actions and decisions. If you’d like to learn more about questions you could ask yourself, read here.

The Value of Self-Reflection

It’s common to find people comparing themselves and their achievements to others around them. However, people who compare themselves to others are less likely to achieve their goals than those who practice self-reflection. Self-reflection allows you to do the opposite of the norms of our society, it gives you the chance to look inward to analyze your performance.

How Self-Reflections Helps You Achieve Your Goals

Several factors impact a person’s ability to achieve their goals, including self-reflection. Reflecting on your past successes and failures allows you to analyze your strengths and weaknesses and use these lessons as an avenue for growth and learning.

Setting goals requires you to look back on past goals and past triumphs while deciding on a way forward. Self-reflection helps you to achieve your goals by showing you how to improve your performance in the future, aiding with goal setting, and increasing your self-awareness.

Improves Future Performance

Self-reflection helps to determine where you have gone wrong in the past and how you can do better going forward. Learning from your mistakes is necessary for success. Through failure, you can identify what works and what doesn’t in order to improve future performance. However, experience can only equip you to take on future challenges through self-reflection.

Aids with Goal Setting

Reflecting on past experiences is helpful while setting future goals. Sometimes we may set goals that are ambitious given our current situation. However, breaking down your goals into small, achievable steps motivates you to keep working toward achieving your ultimate goals. Self-reflection allows you to pause and analyze your progress and achievements to set realistic goals.

Read our article on goal-setting statistics to find out more.

Increases Self-Awareness

Through self-reflection, you can understand yourself better and increase self-awareness. Self-awareness is necessary for success as it allows you to understand your strengths and weaknesses and better equips you to take on challenges.

Self-aware people are more likely to achieve their goals. They know themselves well enough to use their strengths to their advantage while setting and tackling their goals.

Jenn writes at her blog healthyhappyimpactful.com. She’s a mom of three looking to learn and grow. Check it out if you love helpful tips on health, family, and personal growth.