Dream Manager: November 2013 Individual

 

My 5th individual session with Kim was in November.

I updated her on the progress of the Core Financial Wellness program that would be starting in January.  We will be having approximately 8 to 10 participants.

We also talked about how I hoped that the group I’m in would be able to continue on with year 2 of the program as well as bringing in a new group of employees for year 1.

Kim definitely encourages us and pushes us to work harder on our dreams and I enjoy these individual discussions with her.

Dream Manager: November 2013

Session 10:

Spiritual Mastery

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We checked in on our scorecards and dream lists then started discussing what spiritual mastery means to us by considering the following questions:

• What is spirituality to you?
• What are your spiritual dreams?
• What are the spiritual qualities that you would like to develop?
• Describe the last time that you felt at peace spiritually…whatever that means to you. What can you do in the next 30 days to create that sense of peace again?

Spiritual disciplines create self-possession

• Silence – How do you react to silence? How does quite time impact you? Do you find that the voice within encourages you to become the-best-version-of-yourself?
• Solitude – Have you ever been to the movies by yourself? How did it or how would it make you feel? What can you do to become more comfortable in your own company?
• Stillness – If you sat in a chair and put a stopwatch in front of you, how long could you sit completely still? Do you control your body or does your body control you?

Are you free? Consider the definitions below and offer your reaction:

• Freedom is the ability to do whatever you want, wherever you want, with no interference from anybody else.
• Freedom is the ability to choose whatever will allow you to become the-best-version-of-yourself throughout the day.

Our take-home this session included the following:

• Identify characters in books, movies, or plays who you admire for their spiritual mastery. What are the qualities or habits that these characters possess?
• Revisit our spiritual dreams and add to our dream list.
• How can you share what you learned today with others in your life?

Next session… Professional Mastery!

Dream Manager: October 2013

Session 9:

Intellectual Mastery

We started by examining our scorecards and checking in on our dream lists sharing what dreams we are working on and/or completed.
Some of the questions we had to consider this session were:

• What are your intellectual dreams?
• What are your intellectual strengths?
• What are your intellectual weaknesses?
• What are the intellectual qualities that you admire the most in other people?
• Describe a time when you felt like you were at your intellectual best.

We then had to consider these sub-questions to the main question of “What might intellectual mastery look like for you?”

• If you were paid $1000 per hour to learn, what would you learn and why?
• Describe a time when you learned something that you thought was out of your reach or that you didn’t want to learn.
• What does the term “life-long learner” mean to you and how might that concept apply in your life?

As part of our take-home, we had to make a list of 10 books to read, presentations to listen to, workshops to attend, museums to visit, or other activities that you would like to experience as a way to explore the intellectual area of your life.
My list ended up like this:

1. Cincinnati Underground Tour on Nov 23 – done
2. read “Battle of Leyte Gulf”
3. read “First Man”
4. read “Steve Jobs”
5. read “A Stolen Life”
6. read “Omaha Beach D-Day”
7. read “Restoreth My Soul” – done
8. read “Beside Still Waters” – done
9. read “To The Grave” – done
10. read “Last Queen of England” – done

Glad to know I’ve done half of them!

Next session… Spiritual Mastery!

Dream Manager: September 2013 Individual

 

My 4th individual session with Kim was in September.  Due to the holiday we had our meetings later in the month. So I had already presented my lunch ‘n learn before our meeting.

I updated Kim on how it went (awesome!) and the interest from fellow employees.  We discussed how to move forward with the actual implementation of the program.

We also talked about my progress on some of my other dreams.  Here’s a picture from the beginning of my presentation.

Another very productive meeting!