1st Notebooks. Are you keeping one or more?
2nd Do you follow, track the work of key players in the field in which you are working and researching? How?
3rd What to you are the key questions for anyone pursuing an academic career in education, noting that this may mean not working in a university but doing research etc. What are your key questions at this time? Can you put them in terms that a person in the street would understand?
4th What do you know of your fellow student research agendas?
5th What is academic practice? What are the doings of an academic?
6th What are your doings right now? What are you good at? What do you want to get better at? What would you like to learn how to do?
7th What are your reading habits? Do you focus solely on the field of interest?