DIVERSIFYING Networking with flowers. Growing rainbows. Building waves. Talking to carrots. Waiting on seahorses. Holding time. Investing in mornings. Collecting clouds. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Can you escape from your normal thinking and behaviour? 2. Can you create totally out of the box concepts that bring you into a new space? PHOTOCOPYING To make money just copy someone else's product or business. I'm sure you can make it cheaper or improve it. Add a new feature, make it faster, quicker acting or longer lasting. To change lives and change the world, create your own solution. Are you still photocopying? PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How much of what you do is photocopying? 2. What is your idea to make things better in our world or to help others? What's the first step? MENTAL HEALTH The fog arrived. Stopped all traffic in and out. The internal systems couldn’t function. Stuck in neutral. Life goes on. Maintenance tasks get done. Nothing else. All communication has ceased. Nothing is there. The fog usually disperses in a day. This is taking longer. Two days on all is gridlocked. Maybe tomorrow. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is your fog? 2. What impact does it have on you? 3. When and how does your fog clear? SCIENCE BASED My three-year-old granddaughter explained to me that the glass isn’t half full or half empty. It’s all full. Half full of water and half full of air. Sometimes we don’t see the full picture. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What's in your glass? 2. What are the visible and invisible parts of your life? LOCKDOWN Peter May wrote a book in 2005 called Lockdown. It was rejected by publishers for being ‘extremely unrealistic and unreasonable’. For fifteen years his story about a virus transforming all our lives could not be imagined. And then, a week ago Lockdown was finally published. So how do we imagine the next fifteen years for our lives, for our family, for starving children, for our planet, for society and for peace? For Lockdown is more than a book or a state of social isolation. Lockdown is our freedom to create the ‘extremely unrealistic and unreasonable’. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What's the 'extremely unrealistic and unreasonable' future that you would like to see unfold? 2. Write down your story... please! BREAKFAST BRIEFING Waken slowly and gently. Be careful as the day stumbles clumsily into your stories of night, trying hard not to stand on delicate fragments of your dreams. Let them dance together, your night and day, looking strangely at each other, finding a place with each other, for these fleeting moments. Hover between your conscious and subconscious with due reverence for glimpses of your unknown. Let this unseen world play its magic. For the day will soon be here and the possibilities of night may be gone forever. Just for now let them play together. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What glimpses have you had of your unknown? 2. How might you capture and treasure the fragments of your dreams? HITTING TARGETS If you throw a stone to hit a stick in the water you can easily miss. Try again. If you keep repeating this you can miss many times using up your resources. And time. You can however pick up a handful of pebbles and throw them all together easily bombarding your target. Instantly. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What targets are you trying to hit - at work, at home, relationships, personal, health, career, future, etc? 2. Where are your pebbles? WEALTH CREATION The contract for sharing called the seller and buyer is flawed because it involves the exchange of money. This excludes so many who may wish to benefit from your products, services or experience. People may never know the value of what you can offer or simply may not have the money to buy. They may live in other parts of the world where the cost of your expertise is beyond their reach. Give away your stuff for free, build real relationships and create a sharing global economy where all can participate equally. For your real wealth lies not in limited financial transactions but in the spread of your gifts outwards and onwards for ever. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What are the three greatest gifts (knowledge, experience or expertise) that you have been blessed with? 2. How can you begin today to share just one of these with others for free? MANAGEMENT BUYOUT I reinvented my life today. I created a whole new way of being. I redefined who I am and what I am about. I left behind my old life, my previous world. I still know all the same people but I see them through different glasses now clearer and brighter. Today I created a whole new way of being. I’m a different person in the same skin.
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1. If you were to reinvent your life today what would it look like? 2. What is your new way of being? HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT Light bulb Managers Visionaries with a caring and responsive approach to others. · They shine · They provide inspiration for others · They are most visible when things are tough · They respond immediately · They are constant · They do not discriminate with their support. Wardrobe Managers Strong on organisation skills, presentation and personal development · They review objectives each morning · They plan their weeks in advance · They regularly add new skills and review resources · They clear out the deadwood as required · They are very aware of first impressions. Attic Managers Seen as largely inaccessible and irrelevant in today’s business. · They hoard (take rather than give) · They work in the dark · They are locked away and are rarely seen. · They are held with some sentimental value until the big clear out. · They relate best to children and older people. · They cherish only the past. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What type of household manager are you? 2. Can you create another house related category that reflects different attitudes, behaviours or aspects of management? |
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