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Day 313 - Why should I do a Selfie?

1/31/2021

SELFIE

Do Something Every Day
for yourself.

Do something to harvest
what you’ve learned.
Do something to capture
your learning in words.

Do something to share
your experience.
Do something to help
others you meet.

Before you get captured
by emails, social media,
and the demands of others.
Before the day
disappears,
into more of the same.

Before you run
out of energy,
and out of time.
Do Something Every Day
for yourself.

For how else will you
use the skills you’ve been given?
For how else will you
make things better for others?

For how else will you
leave your mark?
For how else will you
make the world a better place?

Do Something Every Day.
Put yourself first.
Do a selfie every day.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. What will you do today to harvest and share your experience?

Day 312 - Heads or Tails?

1/30/2021

HEADS OR TAILS?

There is no success
and there is no failure.
There is only the outcome
that is here with us now.

There is no past
and there is no future.
There is only the process
that is here with us now.

There is no other
and there is no self.
There is only the one
that is here with us now.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. What does success and failure mean to you?
2. What does your past and your future say to you?

Day 311 - What are you Sweeping?

1/29/2021

SWEEPING

It’s so challenging when the life
you imagined for yourself,
is not the one being played out
by you, in real time.

It’s so difficult when you see,
your plans can no longer happen,
and your stories of self,
are not what you dreamt of.

But there is no failure here.
It’s just the sweeping of the path.
It’s the uncovering
of your real self.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. What sweeping is happening in your life?
2. What is your real self starting to look like?

Day 310 - Insight

1/28/2021

INSIGHT

The most exciting part
of my day, is here.
Right now.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. Why is this the most exciting part of your day?

Day 309 - Route Planner

1/27/2021

ROUTE PLANNER

Sometimes you see that
the road you’re on,
isn’t going where
you want to go.

You then have to decide
to keep going
in the wrong direction,
or to create your own path.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. What road are you on?
2. Where exactly are you going?
3. Could you create a path that meets your needs?

Day 308 - Shuffle

1/26/2021

SHUFFLE

I have spent years
organising all of the cards
that I have been given.
just putting them into
the correct order.

And today it happened.
I threw them all
up into the air,
and watched as they fell
to the ground.

Some cards landed facedown
and others right side up.
Some were on their own
or had others beside,
on top, or beneath them.

I saw myself
and all that I am
laid out in a different way.
I lifted the cards and
slowly re-organised them.

The order of the cards
was no longer the same.
Some of them, I no longer needed
and others, I moved,
to the top of the pack.

All the same cards were
now ready to give me
different opportunities,
to play a different game and
to play in new ways.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. What are your cards?
2. How might you reorganise them to play in new ways?

Day 307 - Human Race

1/25/2021

HUMAN RACE

The wheels of generations turn,
as older ones retreat,
and new little ones join in.
All is played out between us.

The baton of love passes,
gently and seamlessly.
Yet it never leaves the giver,
nor stays with the receiver.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. What are you doing with the baton of love that has been entrusted to you?

Day 306 - Co-Workers

1/23/2021

CO-WORKERS

Imagine that God
is looking with your eyes,
for he is.
That is why you are here.
To be the eyes of God
in the world.

Imagine that God
is working with your hands,
for he is.
That is why you are here.
To create and build
a world of love.

Imagine that God
is speaking with your voice,
for he is.
That is why you are here.
To bring a message of love
to the world.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. What are you seeing?
2. What are you building?
3. What is your message for the world?

Day 305 - Collecting My Thoughts

1/23/2021

COLLECTING MY THOUGHTS

It’s like trying
to capture snowflakes,
in the wind.

Different thoughts
arrive together,
and I grasp my pen.

I’ve missed one.
It’s melted
and gone.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. What thoughts can you collect right now?
2. What will you do with these?

Day 304 - Lack of Ambition

1/22/2021

LACK OF AMBITION

I don’t need anything
for I have you.

I don’t need to go anywhere
for I am here with you.

I don’t need to be something
for I am everything with you.

I don’t need to search
for I have found all with you.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE.
1. What is your ambition?
2. How do we view those with no ambition?

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