**Situation:** what is the environment I am in? **Objective:** what am I trying to achieve? **Action:** what are the steps I take? **Results:** what are the intended outcomes? Did they materialize? **Aftermath:** what did I learn? How do I make my learnings part of my new normal? [More about SOARA on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation,_objective,_action,_results,_aftermath).