Day 347 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises SELF AWARENESS Prayer seems like such an outdated process, when conceived as reciting words to a God we don’t know. Meditation seems like a bit of a wacky process, when conceived as sitting waiting to discover yourself. Contemplation seems like a bit of a self-indulgent process, when conceived as reflecting on our life or situation. But these are all just processes, people trying to work out what is going on and what we are here for. So, if these processes don’t work for you, create your own, with your words and activities. Let’s call it self-awareness. Make this process your own. Give it form and structure. Allocate some time and then share what you learn. For the world needs your understanding, your compassion and your love. It needs your process. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is your process of self awareness? What do you call it? How does it work? Day 346 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises SCHOOL CURRICULUM There’s a new school curriculum. based on needs rather than subjects. It is one that empowers children and students to use their skills to the full and to become agents of change. It addresses eight key questions. How we can everybody in the world have food today? How can everyone in the world have a home today? How can everyone in the world be safe today? How can everyone in the world look after our planet today? How can everyone in the world work together today? How can everyone in the world use their skills to help others today? How can everyone in the world be kind today? How will each of us change the world today? PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. The new school curriculum applies to adults also. How can you answer the eight questions? Day 345 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises ONLINE COMMUNITY Our online business behaviour has largely been reduced to self-interest and personal promotion, that is unsustainable and fails to support everyone. We have apps where we do little or no networking, have so called friends who we rarely speak with, and email funnels designed to chase our money. We are capable of so much more. Collaboration can help us to leverage our experience, support each other, and get all the help that we need. We can be open to new relationships and business possibilities, not limited to selling stuff, ego massaging, vanity projects or holding onto what is ours. We can move to collective activities, freely offer our support and reach out to those who need our expertise and skills. Each of us can start a real online community. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Will you begin today to reach out and support those who you can help? 2. Could you encourage others to follow the rules of your online community - to help and look after every single person in the group? 3. Could you use your collective skills, experience and knowledge to create something amazing with every person? 4. Could you then encourage others to create their own real online communities? Day 344 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises CONCENTRATION You cannot fill a full glass. So empty some. Empty out some more or start with an empty glass. Leave space within you for new thinking. Do not dilute your new thoughts Concentrate on your true way. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Are you too busy, chasing around and trying to fit everything in? Have you little time for your own development? What could empty out? Day 343 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises DANCING QUEEN They’re going to play songs or hymns or music at your funeral. Anything you would you like to hear? What about the songs that we laughed and danced to, and that you still dance to? Make a list so that we can get everyone up to dance and laugh with you. So that we enjoy all being together. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Write out you Top 10 song list for your send-off occasion! 2. How are you dancing now? Are you 'having the time of your life'? Day 342 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises NON-STICK The opportunity of life is to focus on what we will become and not to be stuck in who we are. The opportunity of today is to focus on what we will become and not to be stuck in who we are. The opportunity of this moment is to focus on what we will become and not to be stuck in who we are. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What will you take from this moment and the opportunity it presents? 2. How will you make the most of today? 3. Where (or how) do you need to unstick aspect of your life, work, relationships or future? Day 341 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises THEOLOGY You don’t have to go anywhere, to be with God. He is with you now. You don’t have to say anything, to communicate with God. For he knows you well. You don’t have to give any time to God, for he is time, and he gives this to you. You don’t have to believe in God, for he gives you life and believes in you. You don’t have to apologise to God for he is love, and has forgiven everything. You don’t have to ask God for anything, for it has already been given to you. You don’t have to think of God as ‘out there’ for he is already in you, as you are in him. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Write down your theology - your understanding of what God is. 2. What is your relationship with God? How would you describe this? Day 340 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises WRITER'S BLOCK I have never suffered from writer's block. I have never worried about the words not coming, or writing a daily quota. You see, for me the words are a by-product, and not the main objective. My aim is to sit quietly and this is the process that may, or may not, produce words. The real joy, wonder and contentment comes in the process of sitting quietly. For this is the block we can all build upon each day. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. When do you sit quietly? 2. When do you write the words that are within you? Day 339 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises DECISION MAKING No matter how old you are, you can still change the world. No matter what you’ve been through, you can still change the world. No matter what your current situation is, you can still change the world. It only takes a moment, one new idea, a different thought, an unusual event, a chance encounter, an unexpected conversation, a surprise meeting, or some words of encouragement for you to begin. This is why you’re here, and it will happen. You are about to start afresh. So, get ready to change the world. And if you don’t believe this, then how can it happen? If you don’t think this is possible then how can it begin? And, if you don’t see that I am waiting to help you, then how can you answer? Your age is important, for we all need your experience. What you’ve been through really counts, for we all need your wisdom. The fact that you are still here, tells us, that you can change the world. Everything that has happened has led you here. Your plan is unfolding as it should. And you are reading this now, precisely because, this is the moment you decide to change the world. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Well, are you going to join us? Can you help us to change the world? 2. This is day one of starting afresh - where exactly will you begin? Day 338 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises INVERSE PROPORTION By stepping back from the world. By spending time on our own. By moving further into our being. And by going deeper into ourselves, we in fact move away from all notions of self, to be closer to where we truly belong. By going inwards we really go outwards, and we see more and more, that we are connected to all that ever was, and ever will be. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How are you learning to go deeper into yourself? 2. What is your 'self'? |
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