Look back to be proud. Look ahead to stay hungry. Just don’t stare backward too long.

Both directions are useful in short doses. Reviewing what you did gives you evidence that effort works, which you need on the days it does not feel that way. Looking forward supplies the pull. Trouble starts when the past becomes the main residence, because nothing there can be changed and it slowly becomes the best thing about you.

Give the review a set length, a Sunday evening rather than a whole week. Write one line about what you are proud of and one about what is next. Then close it and spend the rest of the week in the present tense.