Touch-Base explained

According to the Cambridge Dictionary definition, a touch base means "to talk to someone for a short time to find out how they are or what they think about something." Oxford Languages translates as "briefly make or renew contact with someone".

Business-wise we are more familiar with the term 1-1 meetings. A touch base or 1-1 meeting would be the predefined, dedicated time in the calendar for a meeting between an employee and his/her manager. Rather than focussing on factual reports, status updates or tactical subjects; the 1-1 meeting is a place for an open discussion, for coaching and mentoring, for ventilating or providing context.
A touch base is informal in its nature, where key words as connection and communication lead the scene.
For an employee the benefit is to have the opportunity to discuss things without being measured or restricted to show progress on those results. A touch base should empower them to speak freely and discuss whatever they are struggling with or whatever successes they want to celebrate. A manager on the other side, gets a deeper insight in his/her managerial skills and gets some raw feedback on the pain points so he or she can act appropriately. It opens up the passion and purpose of the employee so the manager can make sure the employee's talent and interests are matching its role and job content.

As you can read in both the dictionary and the business context, a touch base is always a type of interaction with at least one other person.
Now what if that other person could be you?
Your very own unique meta-mind?
Your helicopter view scanning your thoughts, feelings, actions and results and analysing them to get some valuable insights on your performance as the manager of your own life and checking in with your passion and purpose to see if it's still on track?

Wouldn't that be awesome?

Let's touch base soon!