Starfish Retrospective

Every month, I take a step back and inventory my life in my Bullet Journal using this Agile Retrospective format. Feedback is grouped into these 5 categories, arranged in a starfish pattern:

• Start
• More
• Keep
• Less
• Stop

It's similar to "Start, Stop, Continue", with the addition of More and Less. Those are items I want to lean into or to reduce my investment in.

Normally, I do it in two steps:

1. Brainstorm all the items, bouncing from category to category as things come to mind, until I have roughly 3-5 items or I've spent what seems like long enough.
2. Highlight one item from each area to focus on.
3. Distill into lessons learned.