When we are children, our whole existance is one of personal development. From first waking up in our cot, expanding our movements to include standing up to see over the top of what must seem like the walls of a castle. Once crawling, Mum and Dad ensured we are penned in, cafefully to keep us from banging our head or falling on something painful. Then once we make the massive leap from the rapid crawling from corner to corner and all point inbetween, to pulling ourselves up at the edge of the sofa and gradually learning to manoeuvre ourself along the furniture, slowly but surely improving until the big day . . . we make that huge move from walking along the sofa to walking across to another sofa or armchair. The steady progress, accompanied by claps and gasps of surprise from the neighbours tells us we have made good moves and the way to keep the adulation and applause rolling is to keep up these mini milestones.

So the same happens when school commences and leads on to college and university – every stop is planned and we choose the exams to take at the end of the school period that will help us onto the right path for a particular career or vocation. This is where the first stage of active personal development begins its life long task. That concious and very deeliberate choice of one subject over another to achieve the aim some years hence. Whereas when a baby, every action was a dvelopment but not governed by choice but natural brain function. With a career modelling choice we actually look at the alternatives, weigh up the pros and cons of taking a particular route, look out for and consider other ways of achieving the goal. However hard we work in any segment of the road to qualifying or starting that first training course, we know what is needed to reach the pinnacle. Only our own decisiona and actions can have an affect on the success or failure of the venture. Developing critical the senses of self purpose, self awareness and self promotion are the tools to getting where we want to be.