600 Personal Development Exercises
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OLD AGE We’ve had a small decorative ceramic clock in our kitchen for years. Well, it’s actually a clock face set into a kitchen scene with the range, dresser and all the bits and pieces of a family kitchen, surrounding it. It’s a joyful and colourful little piece and we’ve become very attached to seeing it in its place. It’s literally part of the furniture wherever we have moved to. Recently however, during our house move, the minute hand on the little clock face got broken. A clock with one hand isn’t much use really. But we didn’t throw it out. It’s still sits in our kitchen as it has always done. Only now we see the old guy differently, for his hour hand tells us all we need to know. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS 1. What is your main disability / shortcoming? 2. How do others see you now that you are older? Day 562 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises
NO TIP Can you put your cases in the boot? said my Uber driver, when he pulled up in his taxi. Some of these guys are so lazy I thought. He’s just wrecked any chance of a good tip. I chatted as I always do to taxi drivers. I’m keen to get their story and why they do this job. I’m originally from Cambodia, he said. I lost my left leg when a landline went off. I was seven. This country has been very kind to me. And this is a great job for someone with one leg! PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS 1. When was the last time you made a wrong assumption or jumped to the wrong conclusion about someone? 2. Do you describe you work as a ‘great job’? 3. How can you become a worker for peace? Day 561 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises
EXIT INTERVIEW (FOR JENNIFER) When someone leaves the business, we all seem to play a blame game. The aim seems to be to justify the fact that the person has gone. This leaves only negativity. What we so often fail to do, is to be grateful for the times of learning and joy, that the person brought, for their personality, for their willingness to be part of our lives and to contribute in their own way. Of course, none of us is perfect. But the real challenge of leaving is to remember that the person is still here in our world and will always be a part of our lives, as we are of theirs. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS 1. Who have you worked with in the past and failed to say a proper goodbye to? 2. How does your organization respond when people leave? 3. How should we respond to the two aspects of work ending - the role/task on the one hand and the person/relationship on the other? Day 560 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises
THE LETTER A letter arrives as a brutal reminder of a time you thought was well gone. It seeks to bring you back there, to get you back to where are you once were. But you have moved on and what was then, is now long gone. The only way to truly move ourselves forward is to leave ourselves behind. For it is only then we can see where we really are, and where we are going. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS 1. What still haunts you from your past? 2. Can you imagine your life without this burden? 3. What might you do to begin to leave your old self behind? Day 559 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises
THERE COMES THIS TIME There comes this time in your life when the mist clears, and you can see all around you. There comes this time in your life when the fog lifts, and everything makes sense There comes this time when fog and mist do not exist. And you see everything in a different way. There comes this time in your life when you will see what so few understand. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS 1. What is the mist and fog in your life? 2. What needs to happen for you to see everything in a different way? 3. What understanding are you seeking? Day 558 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises
MELT DOWN It is only when all crashes in on us, in that moment of despair, that we see what truly matters. Then we have the freedom and the gift, to reshape ourselves, as we are meant to be. For we cannot reimagine ourselves from inside when we are we are frozen like blocks of ice. It is only when all crashes in on us, when we melt, that we are free to be. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS 1. What does it take for you to melt, to be free to be what you can be? 2. What do you need to overcome to allow you? Day 557 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercise
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