“Being Present to Your One Amazing, Unrepeatable Life” with Adele Calhoun

 

Questions to prod your personal thinking and processing or for use in group discussion and are arranged by article title.

 

“Graceful Exits”

1. Name the seasons you’ve been through recently in your life. What triggers helped you recognize when one was over and/or a new one was beginning?

2. In regard to knowing when a season is over, Ellen Goodman writes, “It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.” She also says, “It’s hard to learn that we don’t leave the best parts of ourselves behind, back in the dugout or the office.
We own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives.”

 

Think back to the transitions you’ve made. What did you learn in the dugout or the office that you’ve carried forward?

3. What endings have you been through in the last 5 or 6 years and how have they impacted you?

4. Is there a transition you need to make? If so, use the technique of “picturing the promise” to articulate the “why” behind the necessary change.

5. Barbara Stanny says, “Courage is the memory of success.” Think back to an exit you made successfully and identify what made it so. How can you take this new knowledge to your “next”?

“Being Present to your One Amazing, Unrepeatable Life”

1. Adele writes, “Multi-tasking and juggling a thousand balls is our norm. But these feats don’t necessarily make us present to anything or anyone.” How does multi-tasking keep you from being fully present? More importantly, what can you do about it?

2. What thresholds do you walk over daily that you can begin to pay attention to? Let these thresholds be a reminder to stop and notice what’s around you.

3. Adele also writes, “The world is charged with the presence of God.” What does this mean to you? How can you notice God in the world more frequently?

4. Take a minute to sit down and mentally walk through yesterday. Did hurry keep you from noticing things or appreciating someone? If so, what can you do today to make sure it doesn’t happen again?

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Bonus:

“10 Guilt-Free Strategies for Saying No from Real Simple”

http://www.realsimple.com/work-life/10-guilt-free-strategies-for-saying-no

“Creative People Say No” https://medium.com/@kevin_ashton/creative-people-say-no-bad7c34842a2

“Male Box” with Dr. Henry Cloud