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Welcome to the Resources page, a curated space designed to support your growth and leadership journey. Here, you’ll find tools, insights, and practical strategies to help you navigate complexity, build resilience, and unlock your full potential. Whether you’re an executive, leader, clinician, or someone seeking deeper self-awareness, these resources are tailored to inspire reflection and action.
From thought-provoking articles to practical frameworks, everything here aligns with Dr Lynn Scoles’ philosophy of creating sustainable growth through clarity, authenticity, and courage. Explore the tools that resonate with where you are and where you want to go. Let them spark momentum in your leadership, personal development, and well-being. This page will be regularly updated with fresh content, so be sure to check back often.
Groovy Elder Visualisation Exercise–Discovering Purpose and Meaning
The Macquarie Dictionary defines purpose as ‘a sense of meaning or a reason for living’. What gives your life meaning and purpose? Do you have a sense of why you are here and what you are here to achieve?
Humans are meaning making machines. Connecting to what gives us purpose and meaning allows us to thrive and energises us. For many, it is their family; for others, it might be some kind of cause, such as the environment. Being able to put into words what is important to you, and why, is incredibly powerful and energising.
I have created this visualisation so that you can build a picture of what that may be for you. By disconnecting you from the present day and taking into a future you imagine for yourself, you can understand the things that are truly important to you. Without the ties to everyday commitments and stresses, your imagination can take you to a place where you feel completely happy and fulfilled and from that place, looking back on the life you have had, you can get some idea about what is important to you and what you really want to achieve with your one precious life.
So, sit back, get comfortable and give yourself the time to imagine yourself as the fittest, happiest, healthiest and most fulfilled elder that you can be.
Enjoy!
Discover your values.
This exercise will help you identify the values that shape your behaviour, decisions, and sense of meaning. Values are the principles, beliefs, and standards that guide how you live, and becoming clearer about them can make choices easier and help you protect your energy. If you have already reflected on your purpose, this exercise will deepen that work by revealing what matters most to you in practice.
You may also like to invite your partner to complete the exercise separately, then compare your results. This can open a valuable conversation about the values you share, the values that differ, and how those differences show up in everyday life.
Thank you to my friend and colleague, Cameron Houston, for allowing me to use this exercise. He developed it some time ago.
Below are the sheets to print off to complete the exercise.
Notes:
If the value seems to fit somewhat but not completely, try to find a different word that expresses it better for you. This list of values is just a starting point and not an exhaustive one. It is here to get you started.
When you reach the pyramid, place your six most important values at the top. The values at the bottom show what matters least to you.
The hexagon is to give you an idea of how you express that value in your life. Are you living that value as fully as you would like? What do you need to do to live this value more fully?
Enjoy this exercise. Take time over it. Don’t rush. Print off the personal values set and cut them into individual values so you can move them around on the pyramid. Walk away and come back to it a couple of days later. Find another word or move the values around until you are completely happy with the result before proceeding to the last part of the exercise.
All the best as you learn more about yourself and what is important to you.
Personal Values Set
| achievement A sense of accomplishment, mastery | acumen Challenging self intellectually | advancement Promotions | adventure New and challenging experiences |
| affection Love and caring | athleticism Achieving peak physical performance | balance Managing conflicting demands | competitiveness Winning, being the best |
| cooperation Working well with others, teamwork | creativity Being imaginative, innovative | cutting edge Being at the forefront of things or ideas | diversity Being exposed to different people/cultures |
| environment Creating pleasing surroundings | fame Being famous, well known | freedom Independence, autonomy | friendship Close relationships with others |
| influence Guiding others' thoughts or behaviours | harmony Being at peace | health A sense of well-being | helpfulness Assisting others, improving society |
| integrity Honesty, sincerity, standing up for beliefs | involvement Participating with others, belonging | loyalty Duty, respectfulness, obedience | order Stability, conformity, predictability |
| personal development Use of potential | pleasure Fun, laughs, a leisurely lifestyle | power Control or authority over others | recognition Respect from others, status |
| responsibility Accountable for results | risk Taking chances | security Protection and safety | self-respect Pride, sense of personal identity |
| spirituality Spiritual beliefs, closeness to God | variety Having many things on the go | wealth Making money, being rich | wisdom Understanding life, discovering knowledge |
My Personal Value Pyramid
Transcribe the 6 critical values from your personal values set onto the values map below by writing one value along each side of the hexagon. On a scale of zero to 9, indicate where you regard yourself as currently consistently living according to each of these values. Colour in the map.
My Personal Value Map
Transcribe the 36 values from the personal values chart onto the pyramid below. Your most important value should be written on the top line, your next two most important values should be written on the second line, and so on until you have transcribed all 36 values in priority for you. There is no right or wrong answer to this exercise. You will gain the most by being honest about what’s really important to you.
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