TIME AND MOTION Grasp every moment. Waste not one second. Fill each minute with joy and gratitude. Seize opportunities. Show your enthusiasm. Excite others. Pass on your love. Surprise people. Make them smile. Waste not one second. Grasp every moment. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Time and Motion studies help us to evaluate how effective we are. A typical day offer us over 50,000 seconds. How did you do yesterday? 2. How can you 'seize opportunities, show your enthusiasm, excite others, pass on your love, surprise people and make them smile'? MULTI-TASKING Our task is to continually seek the truth not just to listen to others or be influenced by popular opinion. Our task is to listen to what is deep within us not to follow the crowd or miss the real conversations. Our task is to live the life given to us in full without reservation, without excuses without blinkers each day. Our task is to become all that we should be, to be our own person, there for others, the helper and peace builder. Our task is to uncover and use our gifts and skills to help others not to build wealth or to become important. Our task is to set our own course and not be buffeted by events and activities around us or what pleases others. Our task is to reach out to all others, especially those who are hungry and those who ask for our help in any way today. Our task is to love, to be a source of encouragement and a guide so that we all may become what we can be. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Go through each of the eight tasks above and make a note for your to-do list this week. 2. Which of the above tasks holds most potential for you? INCLUSION MANAGER God has a different relationship with every single person. He communicates with us and works with each of us in different ways. We all have different roles and each role is equal, vital, personal and unique. The unbeliever and the monk. We all share the same space. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. If 'Inclusion Manager' is another name for God, how is your role equal, vital, personal and unique? 2. What is this ‘same space’ that we all share? REMINDERS Never too old, never too tired, never too late, never too much trouble. Always enough, always great, always yes, always love. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Write another two phrases beginning with ‘never …’ 2. Write another two phrases beginning with ‘always …’ SEMI-DETACHED It’s obvious to all of us how the tasks, worries and responsibilities of daily life can wear us down. We also know from experience that these all pass in due course, but still we get overcome at times with the demands upon us. It is in the quieter moments when life is less hectic that we appreciate the peace and gentleness that lies beneath everything. This is where we really belong. And so, our daily focus must be to stay semi-detached and balance being busy in our world and quiet in ourselves. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What are the tasks and worries of daily life that can wear you down? 2. When and where do you have your quieter moments? 3. Can you make time each day to stay semi-detached? INVESTMENT STRATEGY When we speak of investment we think of the financial return on our money. But this is not investment, this is just making more money – or trying to. If we really want a return on our resources then we should invest in the skills, experience knowledge and shared passions of all the people that we know and those we don’t know. And we don’t do this for financial gain. We do it because we have money and because we can help them to become what they should be. This is real investment, helping people to be all they can be and in turn enabling us to be who we should be. When we die we will have no money. We can’t take it with us. So, plan to invest all you can and watch the fruits grow while you’re still here. Create ripples of goodness. Plant seeds of hope. Invest in all that is positive and kind. Make your mark on all those you meet. Invest your time helping others. Go way beyond duty or expectation. Surprise others with your commitment, your energy, your enthusiasm and your spirit. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Who is your investment strategy focussed on? 2. What is the return on your resources? CLIMATE CHANGE Throw open the windows. Kick open the doors. Let the sunshine in. It’s been dull and dreary here for too long. It’s sapped your energy and killed your enthusiasm. Escape from the prison of expectation, routine and just getting by. All is there before you. Waiting expectantly. And now you are free. Go to new places Meet everyone who needs you Work with them and make a difference. Explode now with warmth Do everything you should Do all that you can. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How will you escape from the prison of expectation, routine and just getting by? 2. What will you do with this new freedom? TRIAL AND ERROR My failings remind me that I am still on the right path. They point me again in the right direction. They encourage me as I start again. This is not about determination or effort. Rather it is about the gift of grace which opens the window to let the light in. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What are your failings? 2. How would you describe the gift of grace that enables you to start again? PRIORITIES I’ve run out of time. I tick the boxes get halfway through but the end of the list never gets done. I just don’t have the time. I start afresh each day. I re-write my list and put my priorities at the top. But the important tasks never get done. I run out of time. It’s the same routine as I set out the tasks. And then it hits me that the real stuff never even gets onto my list. Never gets done. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is the real stuff for you? 2. How will you rethink and reorganise your day to get the real stuff done? HONOURS LIST I worry about what has happened forgetting all is a privilege. I regret the mess I’ve made forgetting all is a privilege. I feel disappointed by what I’ve done forgetting all is a privilege. Each day brings an ongoing torrent of privileges, opportunities and gifts. Irrespective of how well I manage these the torrent continues. And so, as I try to embrace what happens today I remember that all is a privilege. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What privileges, opportunities and gifts have you already received today? 2. How will you embrace and use these? |
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