OWNERSHIP There is no such thing as mine. It is there for all of us. For as soon as we claim something for ourselves we lessen its potential and we limit our capacity for growth. Let us shift from ownership and self to potential and possibilities. Let us leave all in that sacred space that we cannot own so that we become all that we should be. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What do you own? 2. What is it that are you be holding onto that in some way may limit you? 3. Where is your real potential ? THE COMPLETE WORKS We only have one version of the story. We can only define what we see as reality from our perspective. We view everything through our personal filters. Others too have their version of the story. Each person tries to make sense of life through their personal filter. Billions of realities across the world and all different. And beyond all of this is the reality of completeness. This sees and links everything and everyone as we truly are. The complete works. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Think of three people you know or work with. In a sentence describe how they each see you. 2. Where and how do these views differ from your picture of yourself? HARVEST Every conversation is a story. Every person we meet is a case study. Every situation offers options. Every thought can open a new door. Every job teaches us new skills. Every task produces opportunities. Every memory holds real treasure for we grow through all things. Every moment holds an asset for us enabling us to make sense of life, helping us with a different perspective and to find our best way. So, do not forget your stories, please write down your case studies, explore all of your options and open new doors. Harvest all that you are today. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Begin to build your 'harvest' files and folders on your computer or laptop. Start to collect all your experience, notes, writings, reports, ideas and stories together into relevant folders. Begin today. 2. What will you harvest from yesterday and today? 3. Devote some time to harvesting every day. Look at what is emerging for you..... ROAD WORKS There is a blockage, a huge boulder in the road right in front of me. I’ve been looking at it for years. I’m now right up against it and I must decide what to do. To continue standing here looking at the boulder in the road or to move it. And what’s on the other side of this boulder in the road? Where does this road lead? So, this is not a physical challenge for I would have moved the boulder in the road years ago. It’s a spiritual challenge. It’s one of becoming and being. It’s my boulder in the road. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is your 'spiritual challenge'? 2. How will you move this 'boulder in the road'? 3. Where are you on your journey of 'becoming and being'? WORKLOAD Be thankful for the tasks you have to do today. For there will come a time when those seeking your help or needing your input, will no longer be asking. There will come a time when you will not be able to help. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What are your priority tasks today? 2. Can you look beyond the activity to further explore the relationships involved in each task? RESPONSE RATE When I shake the little tree every single leaf responds. Instantly, hundreds of leaves all wave back to me. They shimmer enthusiastically as one, each in their own unique way. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What tree will you shake today? 2. What are you responding to enthusiastically with others as one? BLOCKCHAIN With blocks of information being passed digitally from person to person we can track every financial transaction in the chain. We can always go right back to the source, the first block in the chain. Likewise, every time we reach out to help someone we begin to build a chain from person to person, that spreads forever. We create blockchains of kindness. We are the source, the first block in the chain. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1. Think of one person you could help today. As a result of your input what might they do, or do better? 2. Each of us encounters hundreds of Blockchain kindness opportunities (BKO) every day. Some are as simple as saying thank-you, sending a text or offering some advice. Starting from now, list the next ten BKOs you see today. REWIND Let us not go back to how it was. Let us not go back to our old way. For our future is forwards not backwards. Let us not repeat it all again for we will never be the same again. New ways of working, new ways of communicating, new ways of living, new ways of thinking, and a different way of being are now part of each of us. When we step out through the door we can plan a different future. And then, when we look back we will see that this was the moment when we changed. The moment we changed everything. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How have you changed over the last 42 days? 2. What is different about the way you work, the way you communicate, the way you live and the way you think about everything? 3. What is your different future? INSTANT LOANS Lend your love today to someone far away in another country who is struggling with no basic resources, or help for their family and who can see no future. Connect with them now for just one minute. Reach out to them at a personal level as their father or mother, as their son or daughter, in our family of one. Think of them now. For this will become the greatest thing that you ever do. Changing everything in an instant. Lend your love today. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. In this one minute you can connect beyond all geography and technology to be with someone who desperately needs help. Sit quietly and be one with them. THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX Imagine if we go through this time not asking the real questions. What if our focus is solely on present events? Do we not realise that there was a time when we were not here? An eternity before we existed. And do we not realise there will be a time when we will not be here? An eternity still to come. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Look beyond present events and list the 'real questions' for you. 2. How are you planning to find the answers? |
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