Caption : find the meaning in your actions
Photographer : Geoff 11 |
Once you have completed your project or achieved your goals, you should reflect on your experiences and evaluate the outcome, the progress you’ve made, lessons learnt and obstacles overcome etc.
Ask yourself the following questions and make a few brief notes. It’ll only take about 10 minutes and it’ll be really helpful for when you start your next action.
- Did you achieve your goals? Were the results as you expected? Dig up that list you wrote back in Step 3 (planning stage) and mark off the things you’ve achieved.
- What did you learn from this experience (about yourself, about others, about taking action)?
- What are the three best things about doing what you did?
- What 3 things would you do differently next time?
Having reflected and evaluated your action, it’s time to think about what to do next. How will you take what you’ve learnt and build on it? To do this, ask yourself how will you sustain this achievement? Will you continue to build on this action or will you try something new altogether?
Next Steps
Tell people about your action. Tell your friends, family, teachers, tutors, everyone you can think of. People pay more attention when you’re telling about something you actually did yourself. Action speaks louder than words. Tell them what learnt, what you changed, what challenges you overcame and inspire them to take action themselves.
Post your story of action on ActNow. It won’t take long and your action will continue to have an impact by inspiring others. Use your ActNow blog as another audience to broadcast to.
