In class I have talked about goal setting with the students. Here are some quick questions I found on one of my favorite blogs unclutterer.com to scan over at the end of any given day; of course, some days are better than others. Write in your writer’s workshop notebook or on a blog post in response to the following questions. If you do this a few times over a few weeks you may start to see some patterns emerge and you can start to modify your behavior to improve the quality of your experiences.

1. What processes went well today?
2. Why did those processes succeed?
3. What processes didn’t go well today?
4. Why did those processes not succeed?
5. What changes can I make in the future to turn these non-successful processes into successful processes?