SHORT-TERM MEMORY We awaken each day. We forget to say thanks. We settle to sleep. We forget to say thanks. We eat our food. We forget to say thanks. We wear our clothes. We forget to say thanks. We have our home. We forget to say thanks. We have our world We forget to say thanks. We walk and talk. We forget to say thanks. We laugh and cry. We forget to say thanks. We have our family. We forget to say thanks. We have our friends. We forget to say thanks. We have our work. We forget to say thanks. We have our rest. We forget to say thanks. We have time to be busy. We forget to say thanks. We have time to rest. We forget to say thanks. We can think and dream. We forget to say thanks. We can plan and prepare. We forget to say thanks. We can be happy or sad. We forget to say thanks. We can be ourselves. We forget to say thanks. We were born and given life. We forget to say thanks. We have wonderful memories. We forget to say thanks. Everything has been given to us. We stop and give thanks. For all that we are. We stop and give thanks. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Just stop for a moment and give thanks for all that you are. 2. Write down you top ten thank-you's and remember to say them at the same time every day. HOLIDAY My mind is busy running over all of the current activities. It’s as if I’m living in them rather than just completing them and moving on. I seem to want to hold it all in my head and replay the elements over and over again. Where I did well or where I messed up. I shift down a gear and leave all the daily activity to one side. Travelling slower, I can plan and organise. There is more space for thinking here. It is quieter. And then I go even slower and bring the car to a halt. Leaving all thinking behind. Sitting quietly by the shore and looking out to sea. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Are you holding anything in your head to replay over and over again? 2. When is your next 'holiday' moment - when you can sit quietly and look out to sea....? ENERGY SUPPLIER Some days I waken up full of energy, ready to get moving and excited about the day ahead. Some days I waken up lacklustre, weary, struggling to get going to face the tasks ahead. Today is an energy day just like yesterday! I must be on a roll. It’s so good to be alive. I must capitalise on this potential. I have to get it all done. For tomorrow, who knows, I could be in low power mode. These are not good days or bad days for every day is a good day. It’s simply me managing my energy supply. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is your energy level like today? Are you ready to go for it? 2. What is your plan for low energy days? Remember, all days have something special to teach us.... so how can you accept slower days with joy? WEATHER FORECAST I look at the early morning sky. It is a blank canvas. By lunchtime, I will have filled in half of this picture. By tonight, it will all be complete. And what will this picture be? Whether or not it will be the picture I planned, waits to be seen. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Look up at the sky where you are - go on, do this now! 2. This sky is your blank canvas for the rest of this day. What picture are you planning to paint? RAT RACE We have inherited a world where jobs and work are allocated to people. Employers decide on the tasks that need to be done and carve up the activity. It’s an out-dated economic model where we are paid to do what we are told. And where many people have no jobs. With technology we can now create work in different ways, driven by what really matters. We can link up with others and collaborate on projects that are important to us as individuals. We can take responsibility for creating and shaping all of our futures and a better world. We can share resources rather than waiting, like rats, for the food pellet to arrive. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How can you use your skills, experience and passions in new ways? 2. Who can you start to work with today to create your new projects? CALL TO PRAYER The church clock in our little village chimes at 3 o’clock as I cut the grass. It’s my call to prayer and I pause for a moment. At 4 o’clock we repeat the process. It seems like a fitting end point, working to God’s time. Time for thanks and a cold beer. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. When do you pause in your day to give thanks? SHARING ECONOMY I sit on Platform 2 in the shade, on a sunny August day with a cup of tea and some 'oats and honey' crunchy biscuits. Three pigeons keep me company and make sure that we leave nothing behind. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How can you help others on your journey? 2. Who is in your sharing economy? APPOINTMENT REMINDER In the middle of the night when all is so dark and empty there is nothing for me to see or do. My mind shoots me back to that dreaded place I knew well, when I was 17. Fearing death and my non-existence. These momentary incisions literally shake me as I am overwhelmed by some uncontrollable force. The panic attack as they named it, has returned tonight. It’s terrifying. Back then, I had my whole life before me. I could rationalise these moments. Now, and as I get older, I see that this dread is in fact, a blessing of love. I’ve learned that the losing of my self is what we all ultimately move through in dying. We each have to let go of what we are so desperate not to lose, as we become everything that is love. It is no surprise to me tonight that my brain still struggles and refuses to let go. For it knows that this is simply another reminder, and not the appointment. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What sort of appointment reminders do you receive? ON-LINE JOB APPLICATION What is your current job? Please don’t use your job title. Who do you work for? Please don’t put your business name or your boss’s name here. What do you work for? Please go beyond money. What do you actually do? Please go beyond your job description. What does your ideal job look like? Please say what you’d really like to do. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Put all five answers together.. 2. Send this to yourself and ask 'what does it say to you?' REINCARNATION No one ever dies. No kindness is ever wasted. No one is ever lost. For everything just changes into love. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How are you growing gently into love? 2. Looking back, what have been the key phases or times in your life (so far) where you have seen or felt the impact of love.? |
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