KEY WORKER Are you looking for more clients, slowly building your email list or trying to learn online marketing? Are you promoting yourself or your business on Facebook or Instagram and doing all the 'stuff' you hear so much about on the internet? Are you being sucked into apps and websites that promise amazing opportunities but cost you money? Have you been on training courses or webinars that always end up selling to you? You can spend a fortune on other peoples’ products trying to earn more money and build your future. You can waste your precious time chasing activities and learning the latest things that just don’t count. Do what you should be doing. Follow your own path and use your skills to help others. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How would you describe your path? 2. How can you use your skills and experience in more ways and in new ways to help others? MULTI-FAITH You do not need to have faith to fulfil your purpose. You do not need to have any religion to fulfil your purpose. Your purpose is love. For love is our faith and our religion. Unique in each of us, in all that we are and all that we are here to do. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Write down your personal definitions for each of the following three words - faith, religion and love. OUTSIDE CATERING The boss and employee relationship is deeply flawed. It is not a true construct for it restricts both parties. We can only bring a fixed menu to the job table. And it’s the same meals every day in every workplace. We all leave behind kitchens full of food, unused equipment and books of recipes, unopened.. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. List all of the skills, experience, interests and knowledge that you leave at home when you go to work. 2. What new 'recipe' might you create today? 3. How will you build your 'Outside Catering' business? OPERATING SYSTEM Spirituality is not something airy-fairy. It is simply the way that we give meaning to all that we are and all that we do. It is the fabric of who we are. Spiritually isn’t outside of us or detached from us. It is our operating system silently working away. PERSONAL DEVERLOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How would you define your Operating System? 2. What keeps you going? 3. How often do you check on it, service it or update your Operating System? SWOT ANALYSIS 'The Hide Away Pub'. Can you turn your greatest perceived weakness into your biggest asset? PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE SWOT means Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. What is you greatest perceived limitation (weakness) at the moment? List 5 possible ways to get over, around or through this. LEAP YEAR The core personal development question is ‘what am I really capable of?’ And the answer is not just about business or work or money. It’s about who we are and looking beyond our perceived limitations. It’s about growing into our capacity even if we cannot perceive it fully. This is the search for something we never thought we would look at even though deep down we know we have the potential. This is the leapfrog. It’s not linear or cumulative or predictable. It’s about us leaving our lily pad and just going. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What are you really capable of? 2. What have you never thought you could do? 3. What does your new lily pad look like? FREE RANGE We are trapped like chickens snatching at all in front of us. We are going nowhere fast. doing more of the same in our cage, just like everyone else. The tiny baby is asleep in her cot. Snug as a bug in a rug. Content and happy. Watched over by her mother and father, and has not a care in the world. Let us step out of our cage with the mindset of a child and just be ourselves. To trust in love and sleep in peace. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is a free range human? 2. What will be different for us when we escape from our lockdown? BATTERY LIFE Each morning without fail the sun rises on the horizon. Slowly emerging into full view so bright that I cannot look for long. Each morning without fail the sun rises on the horizon whatever the circumstances whatever I’m doing. Each morning without fail the sun rises on the horizon. Before I was here and after I am gone the sun rises on the horizon. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Make a plan to sit and watch a sunrise. Take a notebook with you.... EASTER SUNDAY The front door will open soon and we shall walk out with gratitude and joy. Off for a coffee. To meet up with friends, to be together and laugh again. The front door will open soon and we shall walk out with gratitude and joy. Remembering all. To a different life, a better way and our new beginning. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. When Covid-19 has passed what will be your gratitude and joy? 2. What will be your new beginning? WAITING ROOM It’s a strange place. Sitting alone in this waiting room wondering what time the train will arrive, indeed if it will arrive and if it will stop here. I am stuck here, helpless between Good Friday and Easter Sunday on this silent Saturday, sitting and waiting. Between death and life. Between this world and eternity. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE Waiting rooms are interesting places. They hold us for a time between where we were and where we are going. 1. Where are you on your journey? 2. What are you waiting on at this moment? (This was written on Holy Saturday (between Good Friday and Easter Sunday) |
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June 2021
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