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​HOLDING COMPANY  It is the pot that holds the soup.It is our soup.It is the universe that holds the world.It is our world.It is the arm that holds the child.It is our child.It is the book that holds the word.It is our word.It is the face that holds a smile.It is our smile.It is the light that holds all life.It is our life._______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE1. What do you hold in your life?2. Who holds you? _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

​SHORT-TERM MEMORYWe 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 worldWe 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 EXERCISE1. 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. _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

HOLIDAY My mind is busy running overall of the current activities.It’s as if I’m living in themrather than just completing themand moving on. I seem to want to holdit all in my head andreplay the elements over and over again.Where I did wellor 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 slowerand bring the car to a halt.Leaving all thinking behind.Sitting quietly by the shoreand looking out to sea._______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE1. 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....? _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

​ENERGY SUPPLIERSome days I waken upfull of energy,ready to get moving andexcited about the day ahead.Some days I waken uplacklustre, weary,struggling to get goingto face the tasks ahead.Today is an energy dayjust 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 daysfor every day is a good day.It’s simply memanaging 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? _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

WEATHER FORECASTI look at the early morning sky.It is a blank canvas.By lunchtime, I will have filled inhalf 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 plannedwaits 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?  _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

RAT RACEWe have inherited a worldwhere jobs and workare allocated to people. Employers decide on the tasksthat need to be done andcarve up the activity. It’s an out-dated economic modelwhere we are paid to do what we are told.And where many people have no jobs. With technology we can nowcreate work in different ways,driven by what really matters. We can link up with othersand collaborate on projectsthat are important to us as individuals. We can take responsibilityfor creating and shaping all of ourfutures and a better world. We can share resourcesrather 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? _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

CALL TO PRAYER The church clock in our little villagechimes at 3 o’clock as I cut the grass.It’s my call to prayerand 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?_______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

​SHARING ECONOMY I sit on Platform 2in the shade, on a sunny August daywith a cup of tea andsome 'oats and honey' crunchy biscuits.Three pigeons keep me companyand 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? _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

APPOINTMENT REMINDERIn the middle of the nightwhen all is so dark and emptythere is nothing for me to see or do.My mind shoots me back to thatdreaded place I knew well, when I was 17.Fearing death and my non-existence.These momentary incisions literallyshake me as I am overwhelmedby 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 dreadis in fact, a blessing of love.I’ve learned that the losing of my selfis what we all ultimatelymove through in dying.We each have to let go of whatwe are so desperate not to lose,as we become everything that is love.It is no surprise to me tonightthat my brain still strugglesand refuses to let go.For it knows that this is simplyanother reminder,and not the appointment._______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What sort of appointment reminders do you receive? _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

​ON-LINE JOB APPLICATIONWhat is your current job?Please don’t use your job title. Who do you work for?Please don’t put your business nameor 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?'_______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

REINCARNATIONNo one ever dies.No kindness is ever wasted.No one is ever lost.For everything just changesinto 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.?_______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

​THE ZONE ‘You have to be in the zone.’ she said.‘You have to focus your mind,be in a different place andbring all to bearon the task.’ And then she smiled and said‘And from here you can find the real zone,which is beyond all tasks andbeyond all thinking,where no zone can be.’_______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is the real zone?_______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

THINKING SKILLS If we waken upand then just pick upwhere we left off yesterday,we are doing moreof what we have already done.This is cumulative thinking. If we waken upand then something unexpectedhits us, we have to reassess everything.Our day is turned upside-downas we work out what  to do next.This is reactive thinking.If we waken upand then choose to beginsomething new or different today,we are creating a fresh opportunity.We are uncovering our new way.This is deliberate thinking._______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What thought can help you to uncover your new way today?_______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

FIRST RESPONDER When tragedy strikes around the worldwe see images of destruction and death.There’s pain and anguish on young faces.It’s easy to feel helpless.But there are six key things we can doin these moments.We can be with the familiesnot just as onlookers but in our thoughts.We can feel and share some of their pain.We can send our message of love right now.Personal and direct. We can offer ourselvesand all that we are to support them.We can give money through agencies.And we can encourage our friends to do likewise.Our one small gift can begin an avalanche.We can create and say a prayer of love.It’s our call to the power of God to rescue,change, heal and renew.We can commit to specific actionsto help create a kinder and more caring worldas we move forward in our own lives.And we can encourage our children, young peopleand colleagues to become First Responderswhen they too, hear the news.Those struggling are not in some far-off landor on our screens, separate from us.They are beside us, now.______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is the role of a First Responder?2. Think about the latest world tragedy and see how many of the six points you can do.3. Imagine if we were the ones who were suffering, and it was our tragedy on the news._______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

STARTER We mess up.We learn.We start again. We got it wrong.We think about it.We start again. We let others down.We are disappointed.We start again. We failed to deliver.We are annoyed.We start again. We got caught out.We are embarrassed.We start again. We missed the opportunity.We are frustrated.We start again. We see it fall apart.We are devastated.We start again.______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Is there anything that you need to forgive yourself for? You can start again.2. Is there anything that you need to forgive others for? You can start again. It's never too late. Be the starter!_______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

OUTSOURCINGDon’t do everything yourself.Share your dream with the world.Collaborate with others.Reach out and build your team.For when we don’t try to do everything,we can do anything.Don’t do everything yourself.Create projects and initiatives.Let others work with you.Set out the plan and make it happen.For when we let it all go,we will all do everything.______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. How will you work with others so that they can help and support you?2. Who is (and will be) on your team?3. We all have a dream to share with the world. What’s yours? _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

HOME SECURITYI sat patientlyon the beach,not moving.I sat there for hours.And then I felta different sensationas the tideslowly came in.No waves, no noise.Quietly and gentlythe sea lifted meoff the stones.I swayed  left and right,forwards and backwards,for what seemed like a lifetime.Not knowing what to do.And still the tide came in.It started to move me outwards,leading me furtherfrom my place of safety.I drifted awayon an uncharted journey.Happy and contentto find a new beach in time.______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Can you trust in the process and let go of your place of safety?2. How will  you journey and find your new beach?_______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

​​RE-CYCLING The priority each dayis to re-claim our unique raw materialand re-cycle.It is from here that we can  re-think all that we are,re-create all that we do andre-focus on all that we will become.______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Every day is a fresh start. Our old self is re-cycled to be made new again. What are you going to be today?2. And how will you re-create yourself tomorrow?_______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

LIQUIDITY We become so busy in lifedoing all we should andgetting on with everything,that it is easy to forget to look closelyand to assess it all. This is more thanthinking about where we areor planning our future.It’s about something internalbeyond all our actions. It’s about going closertowards the essence of life itself.Being part of the liquid of lifeflowing through all of us.As one.______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. What is the ‘liquid of life‘ that connects and flows through all of us?2. How can you boost and improve that liquidity – to benefit yourself and all others?_______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog 

​ACTION LEADERSHIPWe see lack of activityas being ineffective, or being lazyor non productive.We have forgottenhow to sit and wait, to be contentand trust that all is well.______________________PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 1. Do you take time to be ineffective, lazy and non productive?2. Have you learned to sit and trust that all is well?3. Do you know what are you waiting for? _______________________THE BOOK - Thinking Differently About Everything: 100 Perspectives on What Really Matters Des McCabe's daily blog