Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success. It is a passive way to pinpoint solutions and strategies with the least amount of effort or wasted energy. It’s the opposite of “trying too hard” of forcing and answer. Reflection is more a matter of allowing an answer to unfold right before your eyes, often with little or no effort on your part.

One of the benefits of reflection is that it enables us to get our egos out of the way. In a quiet state of mind we are able to see things clearly, including our own contributions to problems, new ways of doing things, and the ways we get in our own way. Reflection allows us to sense our self-imposed limitations and some of the blind spots in our thinking.

Reflection is simply a matter of getting out of your way. It’s about quieting down your mind so that answers can arise within the quietness.

As we embark on a new year, let us leave behind the baggage’s that were wearing us down and instead purposely focus on the positive reflections which have the potential to spur our lives into greater heights.