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Personal Development Exercises ​


What is the Real Bottom Line?

11/30/2020

 
Day 251 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

THE BOTTOM LINE
 
What's the bottom line?
Is it profit, survival, cash,
market share, return or growth?
 
It can be all of these of course
but what’s the bottom line for you?
What really matters?
 
This is the ultimate business question.
What's the real bottom line?
Nothing matters but God.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  What REALLTY  matters to you? 

Day 250 - Deflation

11/29/2020

 

​DEFLATION

It’s always the same feeling
as I walk away from the station alone.
You’re off on your train journey
and there is an emptiness
and a strange quietness without you.
It’s a feeling of deflation
for the wind has been
taken out of my sails.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  What  makes you feel deflated? 
2.  How do you deal with this? 


Day 249 - Job Vacancy

11/28/2020

 

JOB VACANCY

When we are asked
‘what do you do?’,
we often give a response
based on a job.

I am in retail.
I’m in banking.
I work on the ambulance.
I’m a teacher.

Or maybe, I’m unemployed.
I’m looking for work.
I’m building my business.
I’m at college.

The world has conditioned us
to define what we do,
by the job we do.
Our perceived economic value.

But this is not what we do.
This is simply the role
that others assign to us
or we give to ourselves.

So, go beyond the two
or three word title, and think
‘What do you do?
At home?

With your family?
With your colleagues or friends?
In your community?
In all your activities?

In your creativity?
In your gentleness?
In your conversations?
In your hopes and plans?’

Next time someone asks,
Have your answer ready
and tell them,
what you really do.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   Let's practice this - 'What do you do?'

​Day 248 - Quantitative Easing

11/27/2020

 

QUANTITATIVE EASING
 

 The shortest way
may be the longest.
 
The highest road
​may take you nowhere.
 
The smallest thing that you do
may be the greatest.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   How do you measure what really natters?

​Day 247 - Modus Operandi

11/26/2020

 

MODUS OPERANDI 

We are here in this life
to serve God or
if you prefer to build love.
They are both the same.

So many of us are told
to look for happiness
in what we do, and how
we can build our futures

But happiness is found
in the mode of service,
beyond the mode of self.

For if we work solely
for ourselves, on our plan,
we exclude others.

But when we look to all others,
we include ourselves.
For we are part of all.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What  is your way of working - your modus operandi?

Day 246 - Multi-Story

11/25/2020

 

​MULTI-STORY

We choose how to spend our time,
how to live our life and
what our priorities are.

It is these choices,
that create the picture, or canvas,
that captures all that we are.

And sometimes we make
the wrong choices and the wrong decisions.
But we can start again.

We can paint over our canvas.
We can make new decisions,
better choices.

So, many layers and stories
are built up over the years.
All is embedded on this one canvas.

This is our gift to the world,
enabling us to leave behind
all that we are.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What  does your canvas show at the moment?
2. What layers have been covered over? How many? 
​

Day 245 -  Malfunction

11/24/2020

 

MALFUNCTION
 
The opposite of love is unlove.
It is when we move away
from our true nature.
It is when we create
a situation within ourselves,
which is not aligned
to our true being and
what we will become.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What  does 'unlove' mean to you?
2. When has 'unlove' been relevant in your life? 

Day 244 - Door Handle

11/23/2020

 

​DOOR HANDLE

What happens in this moment
can change absolutely everything,
if I let love in.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What  do you have to do to open the door?
2. What will be  different for you when love comes in? 

Day 243  -  Black Friday

11/22/2020

 

​BLACK FRIDAY
 
They’re going to be
scratching their heads
even more this year.
Wondering what to get
the Old Man for Christmas.
 
Amazon will have more
clicks and cash than it
could ever have imagined.
Black Friday is becoming
Black Christmas.
 
So perhaps I’ll adopt
a different approach,
and take the pressure off those
determined to buy me something.
This year. I’ll say exactly
what I would like.
 
There are millions of people
and thousands of groups
struggling in the present situation.
There is no normal Christmas
this year.
 
So, I would love it,
if you could
make a small donation
to those doing good work
or help a local cause on my behalf.
 
However, if you really want
to do the online
Christmas shopping experience,
then why not send a surprise toy
to a young family,
a gift to an older person or
a food delivery to a local food bank.
 
We can spend our way from now
to a Black Christmas
or we can empower each other
and  create a Kinder Christmas.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What  would you like for Christmas?

Day 242  -   Monitoring Visit

11/21/2020

 

​MONITORING VISIT


I was sitting in the garden
early this morning
and the gate opened unexpectedly,
with a rattle,
and Jesus walked in.

It was not what I could have predicted!
He was dressed in white of course,
raised his hand,
and shouted ‘hello’
as he closed the gate.

I’ve just come to say ‘thank you
to everybody for all the good work
that you are doing.
I know how difficult it is
at the moment’.

He sat down on the bench
beside me
and we said nothing.
He didn’t need to say anything
and I didn’t know what to say.

He then got up, shook my hand,
gave me a hug and said
‘Good to see you’.
As he closed the gate he added
‘Take care, talk soon’.


​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What  would you have said?

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