​Day 417 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

HEARING  AIDS
 
Our priority today is
to sit and listen,
to walk and listen,
to read and listen,
to watch and listen.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE?
1.  How can you use your top four hearing aids today?

TIME  
 
Time to re-set.
Not to continue as before.
Time to re-frame.
Not to continue as before.
Time to rejoice.
Not to continue as before.
Time to renew
Not to continue as before.
Time to start again.
And not, to continue as before.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE?
1.  How can you re-set, re-frame, rejoice, renew and be ready to start    again?​

​Day 415 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

CLIENT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

Imagine if your
customers and clients,
were your best friends.
 
Imagine how that would transform
a one-dimensional business relationship,
into something of real potential.
 
Start now to reimagine  your
customer and client relationships,
as friendships.
 
Begin to reposition, redefine,
play, explore and create
something amazing together.
 
For together, with all of our
past and present clients and customers,
we have a new way. 
 
It’s an invitation beyond
business and sales. It's an opportunity 
as vast as our imagination.

​Day 414 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

THE FOUR LAWS OF LEADERSHIP
 
Try to serve and help others,
in their own space.
 
Try not to lead others,
into your space.
 
Try not to talk to others
about you, or your space.
 
Focus on others,
in their space.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE?
1.  Take each of these four laws of Leadership and apply them to a situation in your life. 
2. How can you become   a better leader?

​​Day 413 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD
 
It is only in the place
of total silence,
that we can hear
words spoken without sound.
 
It is only in the place
of total darkness,
that we can  become
the brightest light.
 
It is only in the place
of total emptiness,
that we can touch
what is really here.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE?
1.  What do you hear in total silence?
2.   What do you see in total darkness?
3.  What do you touch in total emptiness?​

​Day 412 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

​Day 411 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

EVERLASTING GRANTS 

Many voluntary organizations
and community groups,
are trapped on the
hamster wheel of grants.

They work on applications.
They apply and get funding.
They spend it.
They go again.

They work on applications.
They apply and get funding.
They spend it.
They go again.

But we can step off
the hamster wheel,
with an Everlasting Grant.

You see, every grant offers
the opportunity to create a product
or service, at the same time
as we deliver the work.

Your training course, your support
service, your advice, your report and
case studies, can all be captured,
and then shared.

Every grant offers us the potential
to create new products, share
our experience and bring us
income on an ongoing basis.

Everlasting Grants are  stepping
stones to financial sustainability,
If only we can
get off the hamster wheel.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  What products or service  can you create with your current grant? 
2.   Look   through all of your  previous grants. What can you harvest  from    this work to create new products and services? ​

​Day 410 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

THE HOLDALL 
 
Love holds those
of all faiths  and no faith
together as one.
Love is all faith,
open to all  and 
freely available.
 
Love holds those
of all belief   and non-belief
together as one.
Love is all belief,
open to all and 
freely available.
 
Love holds  all those
with faith and  no faith,
with belief and non-belief,
together as one.
 Love holds all of us
together as one.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  Are you totally at one with those from other beliefs or non belief,  or  from other faiths or no faith?   
2. Can you see all of us as one in holdall of Love?   ​

THE ONGOING CONVERSATION

The words are
simply an output.
The work is
simply an output.
The activity is
simply an output.
The way forward is
simply an output.
 
My success and
my failure.
My sadness
and my joy.
All simply outputs.
I keep looking at outputs
and missing the
ongoing conversation.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   How would you describe your internal conversation and your dialogue with yourself?
2. Is this spoken, secret, acknowledged or cherished? ​

​Day 408 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

​SUSTAINABLE SPIRITUALITY
 
Our energy use will shift
dramatically over the next 20 years.
We will move further away from
the old fossil fuel economy
which creates greenhouse gases.
We are learning to work together
for the good of everyone.
 
Clean, renewable energy is our aim.
It’s a new way of living for all of us.
Coal will stay in the ground
and we can look after our world,
if we all play our part, together.
 
Our spirituality will also shift
dramatically over the next 20 years.
We will move further away from
the old religious structures
which create division.
We are learning to work together
for the good of everyone.
 
A spirituality of love is our aim.
It’s a new way of  living for all of us.
Religions will stay in their buildings
and we can build a caring world,
if we  all reach out, together.