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How She Really Does It with Koren Motekaitis
Listeners can learn from other peoples journeys. “How She Really Does It” provides listeners an opportunity to learn from others so they can empower their own lives. Recently I served as a guest on...
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Dos and Don’ts to Reduce Holiday Stress
All the positive feelings about the holidays won’t prevent conatively caused stress between family and friends. Here are a few tips to surviving those festive gatherings: Do put initiating Fact Finders...
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Power of Resistance
Natural resistances in the way you act, react and interact (in other words, the way you get “Get Conative”) are essential to your being at your best. Trust a conative strength to resist and you will...
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Why is it Good to Fail?
Failure can be informative, insightful, energizing, clarifying, character building, team building, equalizing – and very funny. Lack of failure is a sign of an avoidance of creative efforts. Fear of...
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Kids & Sports: Time for Sharing Values
Something I did the least well in my school days, has helped me do what I care about most now. I was an Activities Major: student government VP, a newspaper editor, co-director of the original musical...
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When a Fast-Forward Mind is Forced to Rewind
By my own reckoning, my instincts compel me to be future oriented and to resist living in the past. I’ve thrived by living according to my instincts, even when others have wished I could explain...
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Peeves
I’m not calling the following Pet Peeves, because the term is an oxymoron. A pet is something you enjoy having around, that brings you pleasure and that you pamper. A peeve is something that is...
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Journalists vs. Today’s Media
Journalists dig behind the words. Today’s media parse words. Journalists interview subjects to get the story, not to be a part of the story. Today’s media promote themselves on entertainment shows....
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It Pays to Know Others’ M.O.s
It’s just not worth it to ask people to do things if the way they do them doesn’t work for you. Don’t ask initiating Fact Finders for an answer – if you aren’t prepared to provide lots and lots of...
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Goals with Purposes
Goals are for keeping score. Purposes are for making differences. Kids learn a lot about making goals in soccer games. They learn: Who is best at making goals What it takes to defend against others...
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OverDoing
OverDoing is what makes Rule #5 for Trusting Your Instincts especially important. That’s the one that says: Do Nothing – When Nothing Works. Telling OverDoers to Do Nothing will get better results...
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Like Forcing Water to Flow Uphill
Having spent a good part of the past weekend on a steep hillside, trying to get my amateur watering system to flow up to outlying trees, I was reminded of it being an analogy for conative stress....
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Scholarship: About Doing, as Much or More as Thinking
It feels like there is mostly Thinking going on in many academic programs, from fourth grade through undergraduate programs in universities. Where does the Doing get done? Not in lecture-based...
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5 Simple Steps to Avoid Getting a Job Interview
You have an equal opportunity (or as one recent job candidate wrote in the first line of his resume: “an opertunity”) …to destroy your chances of getting called in for a job interview. Simple 1st step...
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My Theory of Creative Problem Solving
You will never create anything without a conviction that it’s worth creating. If you try to create something by making an effort that doesn’t fit your M.O., you won’t get very far with it. It takes a...
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Nothing into Everything
This is the poem that inspires a comment I frequently make: Nothing IS Everything. Know you what it is to be a child?…it is to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that...
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Music by M.O.s
Bach had to have been a Follow Thru because of his repetitive use of sequential patterns. Beethoven was so much more the Fact Finder with a strong strategy. Mozart went for the Quick Start pizzazz....
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What I know about Being Gifted
Being gifted cognitively does not make you smart. Nor does it give you instinctive problem solving abilities, a better personality or a greater work ethic than others. “Gifted” is a dumb label for high...
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Being a Clown
I dressed up in a clown outfit once. To entertain kids at a camp I ran. It totally embarrassed my then 8-year-old son, David, who was in the audience. Wearing a clown costume doesn’t make you a clown...
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Doing Nothing On Demand
One of my 5 Rules for Trusting your Instinct is Do Nothing – when Nothing Works¹ So why did I get so angry when traveling companions told me that they were committed to making sure...
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