The Retrospect-Commit Loop

The Retrospect-Commit Loop

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Welcome back to Success with Srini. Happy Monday morning to you. This morning on the podcast, we are talking about morning routines. If there is one thing that I have done ever since this podcast started as a daily podcast, from the beginning of this year, over the last five months, the only one thing that I have done is consistently kept on tweaking my morning routine. Why? When you have a successful morning routine, you control the day, the first 60 minutes will control the next quantity of three hours, very, very powerful. You get control of the first 60, 90, and 120 minutes of the day. Well, you can define your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual state as powerful, it’s amazing. Go back in time, study all the successful people, study the successful people that you have. Now, in the news, in the media, and in the current times, all of them are successful, because they have good morning routines. Hence, I kept on tweaking, changing modifying to get to a level where I have full control over my whole day. Recently, I made a quick, and this week, I call it the retrospect comic loop, I’m going to break it up each word. And I’ll explain each word in its entirety.


Let’s talk about commitment. See, you made a commitment a long time ago when you set goals. But did you set goals or you did not set goals, you made some kind of a commitment, and in today’s life, whatever you have is a reflection of a commitment that you made or you did not make. So let’s assume for a second that you didn’t make a commitment, you set a goal for yourself at the beginning of this year, or maybe at the beginning of this month, or maybe at the beginning of this week. And you are working every day, you’re taking action towards achieving the goal. So there is a commitment, how we and how strong is that commitment? That’s debatable. But let’s assume that you do have a commitment in place to achieve a certain outcome to achieve a certain result. This is what I found out. When I get up in the morning. And I renew my commitment to the goals. It seems I have better control over my day and my observation. So I look into all the goals that I have set for myself, I have several goals that I’ve set for myself that are temporary, that means that immediate, and some that are a little bit longer. And some that have a long duration. I revisit those goals every day in the morning.


Lately, in the last six weeks, I’ve been doing these incredible results. What happens and why this is different? Well, it turns out that in the past, every time I set some goals, and I was working, I was missing the emotional component, I was missing the emotional element. So there were a set of dominant emotions at the beginning. That’s why I set the goal. So there were some emotions that were leading me to set that goal. So I did set that goal. But then I forgot about those emotions. And now I become mechanical. Every day I wake up and I do what I have to do to get to that goal, and I don’t feel it anymore. So renewing my commitment on a daily basis, gives me aligns me, gives me a purpose, obviously, but then aligns me and keeps me in the game. So the first step is to renew my commitment to my goals every day, I wake up, so I want you to try this. The second thing, which is the pursuit is to connect the emotions to the goals. It’s not about the pursuit of the goal. The pursuit of the goal is happening anyway. But then I take the first few minutes. And I want to connect, recollect that emotion, and connect that emotion to my goal. And then everything thereafter becomes easier. So the action that I’m taking, or I was taking in the past, was sometimes strenuous. Sometimes it was hard. But now the same action today, with this emotion being connected to the goal. And me taking the action, that action is less painful, less strenuous on me. Big, big difference. I hope I’m coming across.


Now let’s talk about the retrospect for a second. What is the retrospect? Well, this is also a small little thing that I do now as a part of my morning routine, which is I look at my past successes. I wake up in the morning at some point in time in the first 60 minutes. I look into all the past successes I had. And then I also look into some of the recent wins, the recent wins, recent successes that I had, and then some of the failures and some of the lessons as a result of those failures. I want to revisit them. I do these three things. When I look into my past successes, they strengthen my self-esteem. When I look at my recent wins, that gives me confidence, my confidence increases or is held intact. And then when I look into my recent lessons that I took, or failures I encountered, and as a result of that, there is a lesson I took, that establishes my growth pattern kind of puts the seed of growth into my thinking. So growth, confidence, and self-esteem. Three things as a part of my retrospect.


Now, where does this retrospect come from? This retrospect comes from product management, specifically from agile methodology inside product management, as a part of the scrum practice, they do retrospectives at the end of one week or two weeks, or three weeks, if you are in software development specifically, or in it, you may know this. So what happens is, as a project, all the project members come together, and once a week, or maybe once every two weeks, they do a retrospective, where, technically they’re introspecting. So they look into things. They asked three questions, they say, you know, what has worked in the last two weeks or last one week? What did not work? And why did not work? See questions. I took that principle of asking those three questions. And I started applying them in self-improvement in my life. And it does many things. But then by looking into your past successes and your recent wins, the frame is very powerful. Early in the morning, the brain strengthens in a different way. And the rest of the day becomes easier because now you’re leading it by connecting your emotions to the goals. And I do this multiple times. That’s why I call it a loop. So I want you to try this, or try it in some bits and pieces. And I want you to let me know, if you’re a subscriber to this podcast, then do let me know that you know, yeah, I listened to all the past episodes, and I listened to this episode. And I did try this in I got this result. So I will wait for your feedback. And that’s all have a wonderful Monday, and I’ll catch you tomorrow. Take care. Bye now.

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