After the Dialogue with the partner Stop/Reflect/Write:
- What have I learned about myself in this dialogue?
- How will I apply these reflections in my Life?
Appreciative Self-Awareness and Positive Reflection
- What do I love about my life?
- What do I like most about myself? (as a human being, a citizen, a parent, a spouse, a friend, etc.)
- What are the best things happening in my life now?
- What is really working well in my life right now?
- In the last three years, what changes have I made that have posi¬tively impacted my life?
- What’s the most extraordinary thing that I would personally like to accomplish, within the next three years? (It could be in my current job, or in a new job in this organization or elsewhere)
- Imagine I have a magic wand and can have three wishes granted to heighten my positive energy and courage? What would they be?
Self-Reflection about My Strengths and Assets
Questions:
- Thinking about my life so far, what are the ten best things I've achieved?
- What qualities, strengths, abilities and efforts I have deployed to obtain these achievements?
- What skills and abilities I have that were instrumental to achieve my present professional status?
- What additional skills and abilities I need to develop or hone to move forward in my career?
Self-Refection about My Fears (Coping with and overcoming Fears)
- Thinking about my present moment what are my three main apprehensions, worries, concerns, or fears that drain my energy? (personal and professional areas)- Personal area:- Professional area
- How long have I been concerned or worried about these issues?
- What have I already tried to solve these problems?
- Imagine these issues been solved. What would I see, hear and feel?
- What’s standing in the way of that ideal outcome?
Inspiring Thoughts, Reflections and Actions
ACTIVITY:
From the below list of twenty quotes, choose two or three quotes that are relevant and meaningful for you in this present moment that you are living. Tell what the quotes you chose mean for you. Tell what actions they inspire you to do.
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle - Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin - Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
Robert Kiyosaki - Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad - Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Jack Welch - You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus - I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks - Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Phil Crosby - I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela - Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill - He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali - It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen - Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy - Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm - God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr - Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May - Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz - One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou - Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden - The whole world is a narrow bridge, but the essence, is not to be afraid.
Nachman of Breslov