What is the Life Card Shuffle?

SHUFFLE

I have spent years
organising all of the cards
that I have been given.
just putting them into
the correct order.

And today it happened.
I threw them all
up into the air,
and watched as they fell
to the ground.

Some cards landed facedown
and others right side up.
Some were on their own
or had others beside,
on top, or beneath them.

I saw myself
and all that I am
laid out in a different way.
I lifted the cards and
slowly re-organised them.

The order of the cards
was no longer the same.
Some of them, I no longer needed
and others, I moved,
to the top of the pack.

All the same cards were
now ready to give me
different opportunities,
to play a different game and
to play in new ways.

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE. ​
1. What are your cards?
​2. How might you reorganise them to play in new ways?

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Day 308 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises