Archive for 'Personal Development'

The Value of Values

20 December 2007

People usually give goals a thought at the start of the New Year.
You know the usual mantras ‘ The difference between a dream and a goal is a plan’.
Let me suggest something different for 2008 and maybe what’s left of 2007.
Rather than focus on a goal that can be achieved and ticked what about focusing […]

Emotional Slippage

5 November 2007

I was working with the Melbourne Zoo and was told how two elephants adapted to the new enclosure. The new enclosure was larger, greener, provided a swimming pool and was more like the natural environment of an elephant in the wild. You’d expect two elephants to react positively to such a one sided choice. The […]

So, What’s a Heroine Anyway?

22 October 2007

According to the Oxford Dictionary, a hero or heroine is a person who exhibits extraordinary bravery, firmness or greatness of soul in connection with any pursuit, work or enterprise. One who does brave or noble deeds.
Our society seems to value heroes and heroines who earn their status in a moment of valor. The lecturer who […]