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Why one reflection tells you nothing, and twenty tell you everything
The value is not in the writing. It is in what shows up when you have twenty of them.
Eight short sections logged after a session: topic, the four corners, the principles of play, pitch area and how it felt.
When
The same evening, while your memory of it is still accurate.
Why
One reflection tells you nothing. Twenty tell you that you always coach the same third of the pitch and always plan for possession then shout about pressing.
The mistake most coaches make
Coaches write reflections like a school report: what went well, what did not, what I will do next time. That produces prose nobody rereads. Log the structured fields instead, even when you cannot be bothered writing prose, because the pattern lives in the fields and not in the paragraph.
Measured in sessions.
In practice
A coach logged twelve sessions and found eleven were in the middle third. They had never noticed. The next block was built deliberately around the defensive third.
Session Reflections
Open it and try it on one session
You will not get anything out of a single entry, and that is the honest answer. Session Reflections is inside the platform. Setting up takes a couple of minutes and needs no payment details.
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