Would it be a good or bad thing for you if you were in your head all day every day?

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No not all the time. Because the reason you are self-reflecting is to amend your actions so the purpose of the whole exercise is kinda lost there. I think if you write your goals down and then make a plan to get to them and then keep a daily progress journal it should be enough. Writing helps more than mere thinking.

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