​Day 423 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

IDENTITY  VERIFICATION
​
​If you  define yourself
as a teacher,
what do you share?
Who do you help?
 
If you define yourself
as a leader,
what cause do you champion?
Who do you help?
 
If you define yourself
as a writer,
what do you say?
Who do you help?
 
If you define yourself
as a friend,
what do you do?
Who do you help?
 
If you define yourself
​as love,
what are you?
Who do you help?

​Day 422 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

ORANGES
 
We are more than one thing.
We are not defined by our job,
or the work that we do.
 
Each of us is like an orange
that we can divide gently
into separate segments.
 
Each segment is a different piece
of who we are.
Each piece looks the same
from the outside.
And each piece fits together
as one.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  What are your segments?​

​Day 421 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE?
1.  Replace your daily to-to list with a ​ personal impact list.
2. Capture the results of every  activity, task and conversation. 

​Day 420 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

NOTHING
 
It is when there is no activity,
that all activity happens.
 
It is when there are no outcomes,
that the real outcomes occur.
 
It is when there is no thinking,
that there is no need to think.
 
It is when nothing gets done,
that everything is done.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE?
1.  What  does nothing mean to you  - in all aspects of your life and who you are?​

​Day 419 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

A DIFFERENT CONDITIONER 
 
The phone pings
and I don’t lift it up,
or even look at it.
 
The phone pings again
and I consciously ignore it.
I am somewhere else.
 
The bell rings
and Pavlov’s dog salivates.
In the hope that food is coming.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE?
1.  What is managing how you respond - phone, habits, others?  
2. How much of your life is in reactive mode (conditioned responses)  and how much is in proactive (inner) mode? ​

​Day 418 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

NEW LEADERSHIP

​When we lead from the front
we need to keep stopping,
from time to time.
We need to look behind
and check if others
are still following us.
 
If they are not there,
it’s pretty clear that we
are not much of a leader.
 
And if others are there,
 they will think that we are
not much of a leader,
if we keep looking
over our shoulder, and checking
that they are still there.
 
If we lead from the back, we
encourage everybody to move
 forward, including ourselves.

 We can see everyone,
the whole picture, and we can
help those who may stumble.
The New Leaders are starting 
 from  where they are now,
From the back. 

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE?
1.  How can you start to build and lead  others today   - from where you are now? 

​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?