5 Seasons of Connection Podcast

Dr. Stella Chess and her husband Dr. Alexander Thomas spearheaded the classic New York Longitudinal study in the early 1950s to track hundreds of children over a 30-year period to understand the tendencies that babies are born with and how they influence their lives, and from that research they developed the 9 Temperamental Traits.[i] The traits are: Activity Level: how active is your child most of the time? Distractibility: how easily do outside influences distract your child? Intensity: how much intensity does your child have in her responses? Regularity: does your child vary in her eating or sleeping patterns? Sensory Threshold: how sensitive is your child to physical sensations? Approach/Withdrawal: how does your child respond to strangers? Adaptability: how easily does your child adapt to changes in his day? Persistence: how long will your child work to solve something that is hard? Mood: is your child a glass half empty or half full kind of person? 5 Chess, Dr. Stella, and Dr. Alexander Thomas. TEMPERAMENT: Theory and Practice. Psychology Press, 1996.

o   o   AIn this episode, I talk about Core Values as a strategy to build awareness about who you are and what are the deeply held beliefs that guide your life. Here are a list of Core Values that you can use as a starting point for selecting your 5-7 most powerful Core Value words.   Ability o   Acceptance o   Accessibility o   Accomplishment o   Accuracy o   Achievement o   Adventure o   Ambition o   Appreciation o   Assertive o   Authenticity o   Authority o   Balance o   Beauty o   Bold o   Brave o   Calm o   Capable o   Careful o   Challenge o   Charity o   Collaborative o   Community o   Compassion o   Competency o   Connection o   Contribution o   Cooperation o   Courage o   Creativity o   Curiosity o   Daring o   Decisive o   Dependable o   Determination o   Diligence o   Duty o   Eagerness o   Education o   Efficient o   Empathetic o   Encouragement o   Energy o   Entrepreneurship o   Environment o   Ethical o   Excellence o   Fairness o   Faith o   Fame o   Family o   Fearless o   Flexible o   Freedom o   Friendships o   Fun o   Generosity o   Grace o   Gratitude o   Happiness o   Hard working o   Helpful o   Honesty o   Hopeful o   Humor o   Impact o   Impartial o   Independent o   Innovative o   Inquisitive o   Inspiring o   Integrity o   Intelligent o   Intuitive o   Joy o   Justice o   Kindness o   Knowledge o   Lawful o   Leadership o   Learning o   Listening o   Logical o   Love o   Loyalty o   Meticulous o   Mindful o   Moderate o   Openness o   Optimism o   Order o   Organized o   Patient o   Patriotic o   Peace o   Pleasure o   Persistent o   Philanthropy o   Play o   Positive o   Practical o   Prepared o   Private o   Productive o   Professional o   Realistic o   Reliable o   Resilient o   Resourceful o   Results-oriented o   Religion o   Reputation o   Respect o   Responsibility o   Security o   Self-Respect o   Service o   Spirituality o   Simplicity o   Stability o   Status o   Success o   Thoughtful o   Trustworthiness o   Truth o   Understanding o   Unique o   Wealth o   Wisdom WWonder