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Mistaken Goals – Update and Interventions

“The central motivation of all humans is to belong and be accepted by others.” – Rudolf Dreikurs (1897-1972) Update Its been a while since I checked in with the Positive Discipline source materials, and I recently found what looked to be an updated version of the Mistaken Goals Chart. You can find more details about…
Slow your thinking.

“We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.” – Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (along with his partner, Amos Tversky) did groundbreaking (and in fact Nobel Prize-winning) work towards understanding (and even defining) what he called “behavioral heuristics” and “cognitive biases”. A heuristic is simply a mental shortcut that…
Add value. Eliminate waste.

“We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.” – Taiichi Ohno, father of the Toyota Production System Recently I’ve been eyeing the meadow that in theory is supposed to be my backyard, watching it mark its slow transition from winter slumber into something I need to mow, and not particularly…
Calm.

“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” – Michael Caine Dan Siegel has a short two-minute video where he talks about a model for the human brain called “the brain in the palm of your hand”. You can watch it here: Siegel describes bringing your thumb in…
Visualize your work.

“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.” – W. Edwards Deming In many ways my atomic sticky notes (really need a new name for them, and I am fully open to suggestions) evolved out of a Lean manufacturing scheduling system originating in Japan,…
Ask for help.

… when you really need it. See the post “Shift your perspective.” for the first in this series exploring my atomic (in the sense of a thought or idea being reduced to its most basic essence) sticky notes. My hope is that these concepts are universal and applicable across multiple domains, including work, life, and…