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Sticky Learning Lunches #13: Create Your Own Personal Development Plan Understand the 5 simple steps to create your personal development plan in Part 2 of this PDP series. You Can Read the Full Transcript Below: Nathan Simmonds: Amazing, right? We are just giving it a couple more minutes or minutes for the people to carry on arriving. People are still entering the room, which is good. Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday. Given the UK the weather has taken a slight change, so it's a little bit cooler and it's rainy instead of sunny. On a scale of one 10, before we get started, on a scale of one 10, how are you feeling? Nathan Simmonds: One being terrible, 10 being phenomenal. Whereabouts are you right now? Mindset, mentally right now in what you're doing, where you are right now in existence on, on what's going on. Getting a good spread of numbers. Got some ups and downs, a lot of people hitting eights out there. There's a nine. Fully focused and energized and ready. Thank you very much. Nathan Simmonds: Yeah, about a six weather cold work. Really busy, still working in the office. I'm feeling you on that. Although I'm working from home, that shift and whether that shift in temperature really brought my, my, uh, my mindset down a little bit today. Wherever you are on that scale, I will get, I'm just receiving a comment. Comment in there. Wherever you are on that scale, what can you do right now that is gonna take you one step higher, that's gonna take you to the next number? Nathan Simmonds: What's the one thing you can do right now that's gonna make you do that? Is it now to re oxygenate yourself? Is it stand up and stretch? Is it to give you, give me your full attention and see where this is gonna help you go in the next 20 to 30 minutes. What's that one thing that you can do to get, increase that energy you've got right now? Brush to my hair. Nice. Focus on myself at this time. Yeah, absolutely. Finish off one thing. Absolutely not. Take the feedback too personally.
Personal growth is key to success
Nathan Simmonds: Feedback's a wonderful thing. It's a gift. There is no such thing as good or bad feedback. There is only ever feedback. The um, a thing is neither good or bad. It's the thinking that makes it so I paraphrase. There would always be something in there worth taking out. There'll always be something worth grabbing onto and going, okay, what actually do I need to do with that? How can that help me move forward? So it's important we do this. Uh, brush my hair is one of them. Nathan Simmonds: Before I go into any online meetings, before I even get into these, you know what the one thing that I do that just helps me to get really focused, brush my teeth. I know it sounds crazy. I brush 'em in the morning. I brush 'em in the evening. But before this, I think because I'm not physically in a room and I'm con I'm, I become hyper conscious of myself and maybe I've had a cup of tea or a cup of coffee or whatever, just brushing my teeth helps me get focused, helps me get more engaged in what I'm doing and then just feel fresher helps me deliver this content we are in. Nathan Simmonds: So let's get set up for success. Enough of the chitchat. Make sure you've got a drink handy. Let's make sure you've got herbal drinks, you've got water, making sure you're staying hydrated, even with the drop in temperature. You've got a fresh piece of paper, you've got a fresh notepad. No distractions on there, no other pieces of work at the top. You're gonna write keepers. Nathan Simmonds: Keepers are those things that you want to remember, that you want to read back through so that you can reignite your thinking so you can come up with new ideas as a result of going back through those doodles and those notes and those bullet points that you take from today's session. The goal, as always, is to get more than three. So anything that I say or any questions that people ask me and I'm sharing ideas and concepts,