Are you a member of the Di Downie’s Mentoring Private Facebook Group?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiDownieMentoring/

This group will become YOUR family for specific support for your ideas, your systems, your feedback loop.  A group of people who will give constructive relevant comments.   Engage in it and with for people to get to know and get to know what you do.

If we don’t know you we cannot support you!

If we don’t know what you do we cannot support you!

Engage!  Have fun! and BE YOU!

ASSIGNMENT ONE

Notebooks

  1. In a email that you should of received you were asked to purchase a large scrapbook, post it notes, small notebook.
  2. Your large scrapbook will be used to revise keypoints from the live module AND the assignments. It is best to hand write in this scrapbook to express your creativity in a different way from using the keys on your computer or ipad to record a summary.
  3. Use Mindmaps, coloured pens, (be creative) to summarise your learnings and takeaways while you are listening to the module and while you are completing the assignments. This is another way your mind will shift to creativity.
  4. Place your post-it notes in your glove box of your car, if you are a woman in your handbag, in the toilet, next to your bed, on the fridge, near your computer. Once you have placed a post-it note and a pen in these areas have three more post-it notes and pens ready for other areas for your lifestyle. You never know when ideas will come through from your spirit.
  5. Your notebook is for longer transcripts that you will need as you expand your idea and begin to share it clearly with your niche.  Break your notebook into 4 areas:  Marketing, Administration, Management and Operations. Use those cute tags or simple a piece of paper sticking out from the edge stuck on with a piece of sticky tape.
  6.  Do you already have a book that you have written in the past that may of been a journal?  You will need a book that you will to keep for years.  This book is where you will be writing your “IN-TENSIONS”  for the duration of your year.

ASSIGNMENT TWO

Calendar

Time is all we have apart from relationships

 

  1. Mark in your calendar the date and times of the Live Masterclass Modules. Keep an eye out at the beginning of every month for the months dates and times.
  2. You will receive email reminders as to the dates and times.
  3. The times will change through out the year with each module being 1 hour every week or fortnight.
  4. You will progress when you put in the focussed time to do the assignments, stay organized and connected.
  5. Every month to 6 weeks there will be live question and answer sessions. Write your questions in the Facebook group. 
  6. There is no competition with anyone here. Go at your own pace.  At times go back to look at modules or assignments to revise and refresh your mind you are creating a system that you can re-create for any project.
  7. Schedule time to do your assignments. The time needed will vary after each Module. The trick is to stay focussed. Actually there are no tricks here, its reality!  Keep your learning time, working on and working in time balanced. We all love to learn! Implementing the assignments mostly can be seen as working on your project or business.  Working in your business or project is where the income is generated and is where the growth happens.

ASSIGNMENT THREE

Software

We will be using universal software:

  1. Some people will have Macs and some will have PC’s it should make no difference what you work on nowadays with common software. With a small amount of practise you can be accomplished with any system and any piece of software.
  2. It is important to know what your software can do and how long tasks should take giving you a choice to outsource or not.
  3. Check you have Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel, Word. If you are a Mac user check you have the latest version of Keynote.

ASSIGNMENT FOUR

Folders

 Set up your computer

 

  1. Set up your computer to direct your mind to a business structure
  2. Create a folder with your name. If you already have a website the folder would be your website name, otherwise it would be your personal name.
  3. Make 4 folders within this folder :                                                                                                                                                         1.  Management         2. Administration           3. Marketing             4. Operations

ASSIGNMENT FIVE

Skills and Attributes

Definitions.

Skills:            The ability to use your knowledge to execute a performance. A learned performance that has become readily accessible for use. A developed aptitude or ability to effectively carry out a task. Something that has been learned that you can physically do.

Attributes:   A natural quality that is part of your natural personality. An inherent part of you that is part of your character. A natural ability that can be unconscious.The natural order of how you go about your living.

 

Examples

Examples of skills:

typing, writing creatively, gardening, using Microsoft Word confidently, using Adobe Publisher at a medium level, horticulture knowledge, mechanic repairs, web design, teaching, veterinary science, cooking, organising, financial accounting, planning, leadership, meditate, listening, facilitate, drawing, mediation, playing music, monitoring, water diving, business deals, playing a sport, designer, electrical technician, a type of farming, geology, dentistry, radio, make-up artistry.

Example of attributes:

act fast, making people feel comfortable, thinking logically, talking, thoughtful, relaxing, eye for detail, analysing, teaching, diplomacy, creativity, organising, remembering details, planning, delegating, explaining details, listening, visualising, drawing, playing music, monitoring, water diving, dealing, or dealer, playing a sport, inventor, research, ideas, task-oriented, result-oriented, thinking ahead, bringing out what others can’t see.

These are just a few examples from the years of coaching people through this process. You will notice there are skills and attributes that are the same. Someone might be a natural listener and then may learn further listening skills. A person uses their natural planning attribute while someone else learns planning skills.

 

Skills and attributes: ( WRITE YOUR PAST SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES IN YOUR LARGE SCRAPE BOOK)

From my past employment, business activities, family experiences, personal interests are:

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

 

           MY SKILLS                                                                                                      MY  ATTRIBUTES

 

 

Skills and Attributes: ( WRITE THE SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES THAT YOU GUESS YOU NEED FOR YOUR FUTURE SUCCESS)

For future employment business, family experience, personal interests that you want to pursue

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

 SKILLS                                                                                                                    ATTRIBUTES

That I may transfer /use                                                                                 That I can rely on

Case studies:

Past employment, business activities, family experiences, personal interests.

# 1: Retail manager, owning boat manufacturing business, driving racing cars, gardening.

Skills:

Merchandising, medium computer skills, planning, accounting, negotiating, team building, speaking Chinese, mechanical, welding, gardening, business deals.

Attributes: Delegating, organising, planning, negotiating, listening, seeing what others don’t, result-oriented, explaining to others, patient, competitive, drawing, research, reliable, straight talker.

 

Future ambitions and interests:

I want to travel using my Chinese language. I’m interested in selling a product and negotiating. A website could assist the sales and my direction.

Skills that I will transfer and add to:

Business deals, negotiation (add to)

Speaking Chinese (add to)

Planning,

Team building (add to,)

Listening (add to)

Chinese culture study

Attributes that I can rely on:

Negotiating

seeing what others don’t

research

delegating for the website development

patient

competitive

 

Case Study

Past employment, business activities, family experiences, personal interests:

# 2: Nursing, marriage, mother, having children, school environment, lived in Germany, taking of child with chronic asthma.

Skills:

Nursing,  how the human body works, working in a team

German

Dutch

Budgeting,

cooking

Attributes:

Mediating

Negotiating

Coaching

Organising

Thinking ahead

Diplomatic

Patient

Good with numbers

Liaising with people

 

Future ambitions and interests:

To work with parents who have problem teenage children.

Skills that I will transfer and add to:

Working in a team (add to)

Mediating (to learn professionally)

Listening ( do a course)

Coaching (do a course)

Attributes that I can rely on:

Mediating

Negotiating

Patient

Organising,

Thinking ahead

Diplomatic

Getting the most from this process.

Keep updating your lists of skills and attributes

We often have more skills and attributes than we think of. Keep adding to the list as you remember and see them operating in your personal and business life.  Often skills are seen in our personal life before we can use in our business environments

Ask other people

Other people can often see our natural qualities  better than what we can. Ask your friends, your partner, your family and your work mates. You may have attributes that with a little skill enhancement you can use for future ambitions. Asking other people what they see you do naturally is an on-going conversation that you can have to allow you to see your purpose.

Transfer

What are the skills that you can transfer from one area to another area of interest? What are your natural attributes that you can use to grow to your full potential?

Lifelong learning

Keep your eyes and ears and senses out for other skills that may be of interest to you. Adopting a lifelong learning attitude will assist you in growing and evolving from your full passion.

Do what you love

Gather further understanding of what you love and what drives your personal loves.

We have all heard this before:

Do what you love!   If you’re not sure what as to what direction you want to pursue, ask yourself, “What are the skills that I love to do?” You may be able to transfer that skill and mould it into an industry that you would love to work in.

You are here for a reason

Are there attributes that you want to do more of? Doing what we do naturally is how we live our purpose. We can live our purpose selling ice cream, being a mum, sailing, whatever it is we do. When we go about selling ice creams or being a mum with our natural attributes, our life is easier and more in tune with who we are.