Free Full Flow Check
Use 14 questions to see your current Flow Type, a condition that may be strained, and an action to try today.
Mirror Report / fictional sample
From an answer to a step you can try.
Connect a reflection with an action today and observations over a week. This fictional example shows the structure we are developing for the Mirror Report.
Beyond the free check
What the report adds
Mirror Report in development
Follow the link between answers and interpretations, then apply it to an everyday situation. The planned structure includes a small experiment and seven days of observations to help decide what to keep or change. The example below illustrates that structure.
01 / Answer excerpts
Example: wanting some distance from information
- Q2. What most often breaks your focus lately?
- “Too much information”
- Q3. What tends to happen when you try to rest?
- “My thinking keeps going”
- Q5. When do you most easily feel reset?
- “Writing things down”
- Q8. If you changed just one thing today, what would help most?
- “Reduce incoming information”
02 / A tentative reading
Try reducing one source of incoming information
The answers to Q2 and Q8 both point to wanting less incoming information. That makes attention a useful theme to observe in this example. Q3 suggests that thinking continues during rest, but it does not establish that information volume is the cause.
Q5 names writing things down as helpful. The experiment builds on that answer: a place to leave a distracting thought for later, without adding several new habits at once.
This reading may not fit. Workload, tiredness, or task difficulty may matter in ways these excerpts cannot show. If the experiment makes no difference, revisit the hypothesis or the method.
03 / Today’s five-minute experiment
Close one source. Return to one task.
Imagine starting to look something up and then following unrelated information. When it is safe to pause that source and doing so will not disrupt necessary communication, try this for five minutes.
- First minute: close one tab or information source you do not need for the current task. Choose one small task to work on.
- Next three minutes: return to that task. If another thought draws you away, leave a short note on paper for later.
- Final minute: note whether returning to the task felt easier, the same, or harder. Stop the experiment at five minutes.
Observation space (in your own notes): source closed [ ] / ease of returning [ ] / what you noticed [ ]
The aim is to find out whether this small change suits you now. No change, or finding it more burdensome, is useful to record too.
04 / A seven-day observation plan
Keep it small. Notice what happens.
Allow about five minutes on days when you can try it. Leave missed days blank. The observation spaces below show what you might record; this page has no input or save function, so keep the notes somewhere of your own.
Day 1 / Close one source
Try the five-minute experiment above once.
Observe: what you closed [ ] / ease of returning [ ]
Day 2 / Repeat the method
Repeat the experiment with a similar task and compare it with Day 1.
Observe: difference from yesterday [ ] / differences in task or tiredness [ ]
Day 3 / Leave a thought for later
During the experiment, leave a short note when something draws your attention. Notice whether the note helps you return.
Observe: did the note help? [ ] / what you noticed [ ]
Day 4 / Adjust one thing
Read your notes. If needed, change either the source you close or the size of the task, then try again.
Observe: what you changed [ ] / ease of returning [ ]
Day 5 / Try another situation
Try the same five minutes in another setting, such as reading or a household task.
Observe: situation [ ] / what was easy or difficult [ ]
Day 6 / Check how manageable it feels
Try the version you found most manageable once. Consider usefulness and effort separately.
Observe: usefulness [ ] / effort [ ]
Day 7 / Keep, change, or stop
Spend five minutes reviewing your notes. Identify one situation where it fit, then choose whether to keep, change, or stop the experiment next week.
Observe: a situation where it fit [ ] / next week’s choice and reason [ ]
05 / Final reflection
Find something you can use next time
Write one sentence for each: What did I close, and what task was easier to return to? What was different on days when it did not help? How small could I make it if I continued?
Seven days cannot establish what caused a change. If there was no benefit, use that observation to choose what to try next.
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