. TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS It’s Saturday night in 1974 and me and the boys are heading out on the town. We are breaking free. After two years of studying the results arrived today And tonight we celebrate. We are breaking free. My mum will wait up for us to come home safely. To ensure that we are okay as we all pretend to be sober. And since she died, I celebrate on many a Saturday night not with beer, but in thanks and by looking at the stars. Remembering my walk home at 2am back in 1974, on a wonderful and precious, starry Saturday night. It’s now a Saturday night in 2020 and me and the wife are flying out to Dubai. We are breaking free. We will stay there for fifteen nights to meet quarantine rules, so that we can fly on to the US for the birth of our new grandson. After four months of a Covid lockdown and living in a virtual world, we are breaking free. My mum will be waiting to see that we arrive safely, and to celebrate with us the arrival of her new great-grandson. And so, we all journey onwards. And I gaze out of the window on this wonderful and precious, starry Saturday night. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. When and how will you break free? 2. What is wonderful and precious for you? TAKEAWAY Let us talk of inward reflection rather than prayer. For it is by going inwards away from the clamour of the world ... ... into the gentle silence, that we see our real selves reflected in love. And this is what we take into our lives and all that we do. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Where do you find the gentle silence? 2. When will you have your next takeaway? FOCUS GROUP I got a sad meal at McDonald’s yesterday. Don’t you mean a Happy Meal? No, the toy was missing and I was a little bit sad. (two young friends discussing their lunch) PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What would others say, in private, about the product or service that you provide? 2. Are you doing all that you should to make you happy? MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING I met Fred for the first time today. He was passionate about trying to encourage me to join his multi-level marketing scheme in crypto currencies. I was puzzled because Fred clearly had more money than he needed. He’d been successful in many other ventures. And he was well into his 70s. I marvelled at Fred’s sense of drive, his relentless passion and his total focus on building his team. ‘What drives you?’, I asked. He said that when he was younger he was told that he needed to have seven streams of income. He only had six. And he laughed. How could somebody be totally focused on building wealth? He was travelling the country attending meeting after meeting, promoting all the time and in every single conversation. He was a true MLM specialist, living and working with everyone in his downline. ‘But, surely life must be about more than money?’ I asked. Fred smiled and continued ‘My aim is to generate opportunities for people to help them to fulfil their plans and their destiny. I also spend my money in ways that others don’t know about. You see, each of us must find our own way and then give our all to that.’ PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is your business? 2. Have you found your way? 3. How does your work help to deliver all that is important for you? NEEDS DRIVEN Embrace all possibilities. Be open to the unseen potential in every situation and in every moment. Go out. Just go there, just be there. And bring with you all that you are. Be positive. Be encouraging. Be ambitious for your success and the success of others. Be gracious. Be grateful. Be kind and smile. Do what you love. Enjoy your interests. Set the world on fire and watch the grass grow. And when you realise that there is nothing that you really need, then you have everything. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How will you 'set the world on fire' and 'watch the grass grow' today? 2. What do you still really need? STAMP COLLECTION The world demands outputs and results, achievements and success. But we long for love and peace, happiness and health. We can be dominated by external events, or we can choose to work together, and create a different way. We can be continually stamped upon in an uncaring and demanding world. Or we can come together, and gently put our stamp on all before us. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How has the world stamped on you in the past? 2. How are you gently putting your stamp on all before you? COPY AND PASTE I typed the word love and saw it in front of me. I highlighted the word love and captured it in my heart. I copied the word love and made it who I am. I pasted the word love and it was everywhere. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. We 'copy and paste' who we are in every encounter with others. Where can you paste love today? 2. What are the other words that are you pasting everywhere? What is the message that others are picking up from us? PARALLEL INTERFACE We all live parallel lives. Our daily work, our relationships and the things that we do are all part of our outer living. What goes on in the deep recesses of our mind and consciousness, is our inner living. Both co-exist together. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1. How much time and thought do you give to your inner living? 2. Have you explored how you outer living and your inner living work seemlessly together? SHORT TERM MEMORY Love forgives us for everything, unconditionally. No matter what. Right from now. Love then forgets everything that it forgives. We can start again, afresh. No matter what. Right from now. Love insists that you too forgive yourself, and forget all that you carry as a burden. No matter what. Right from now. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What do you still need to forgive yourself for? Do it now. 2. There is no longer any burden to carry. Are you ready to start afresh, right from now? HOUSE PARTY My mind is buzzing. My brain is creating. My ego is expanding. My conscience is questioning. My heart is beating. My soul is too quiet. My self is in doubt. My body is restless. There’s a lot going on in the house today. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What's happening in your house today? 2. How are your eight friends - your mind, your brain, your ego, your conscience, your heart, your soul, your self and your body? |
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