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Off-season Improvement — Part II
The journal is your record

Other parts in this series:
  Off-season Improvement — Part I — Choosing to improve
  Off-season Improvement — Part II — The journal is your record
  Off-season Improvement — Part III — Journal basics
  Off-Season Improvement — Part IV — Journal basics take 2
  Off-Season Improvement — Part V — Journal basics take 3
  Off-Season Improvement — Part VI — Journal basics take 4
  Off-Season Improvement — Part VII — Journal basics take 5
  Off-Season Improvement — Part VIII — Journal basics take 6

K.I.S.S.

on’t spend all day analyzing a problem.

Write it down, figure out what you did wrong, and then correct the mistake.

That was a key point of emphasis in Part I. Then, as you’ve likely come to expect from me, I extolled some virtues of keeping a journal. Yes, you’ve heard that pitch from me before, but what you hadn’t heard before were reasons for maintaining the integrity of said journal; namely, the importance of making your entries soon after they occurred rather than waiting for your mind to rationalize away what actually happened.

To be of real value, your officiating journal must be an accurate representation of what transpired.

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