Des McCabe
Des McCabe - Thinking Differently About Everything
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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
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 wor
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
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
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
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 peo
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 than
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 DEVELOPME
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
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 be
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 k
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 al
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
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
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 sta
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
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 b
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 DEVELOPMEN
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 internal
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
INWARD MARKETINGTrue Marketing is an Inwardrather than an Outward process.Outward marketing meansthat we can spend our liveschasing customers and jobs,sourcing products or looking for work.Repeating this again and again.Just like we are told w
DELIVERY CONFIRMATION It’s time to writethis week’s list of thank-yous.Where will you start?Where was your joy? What have you learned?What have you been given?What was the one big surprise?Who has helped you? What has been sorted?How have you b
HEADMASTERI am still in the office at home. I am still at work.My head is full of stuff.The number of things to doseems to be getting longer, not shorter. For as soon as I cross something off the listanother two things appear needing to be done
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Years ago, when we were travellingwe would stop at a lay-by,take out our mapand plan our route. We would create options,factor in a coffee breakat a little villageand plot a route that worked for us. Now we put our desti
COLOURING BY NUMBERSWhen I was a child I had a book calledcolouring by numbers.The outlines of everythingwere all there on the picture.I just had to colour in the spaces. Areas with ‘one’ were blueand those with ‘two’ were yellowand so on.The
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