There are countless assessments, personality tests, and screening tools all over the Internet that give you a lot of information about your general interests, strengths, weaknesses, tendancies and on and on and on... But does it really get to the heart of who you truly are? Does it bring you to a genuine understanding of how you instinctively work?

Those assessments, personality tests, and screening tools and strategies "experts" offer have been developed and recommended based on how you and everyone else similar to you are the same. The assessment, test, tool or strategy works if you fit who the expert, generally speaking, has in mind. 

Do you find yourself sincerely trying strategy after strategy and falling short of the result you wanted? If you're not hitting the mark you had in mind,  please my friend, don't beat yourself up for that. When strategies are developed and marketed to the public it's designed to work for approximately 20% of the population it's meant to serve, leaving 80% behind to wonder what's wrong with themselves. I can't begin to tell you how many different oranizational systems and strategies I bought and tried only to conclude I was a loser because it should have worked. I mean, it was designed for me. Right? Not necessarily! 

Understanding your preferred learning style and the secondary styles of learning that influence that preferred style implies that you are different and unique. How you use that style to your advantage is the key. For instance, an individual who prefers to talk out loud to organize his thoughts (i.e. Verbal Processor) may have a secondary aural learning style. This individual may incorporate music as a way to verbally process information. The next verbal processor may find one or many different people to verbally process information with because they have a secondary social learning style. Do you know what your personal learning style combination is?

After you hone in on your specific style, now is the time to think about what tool you will use. Writing, recorders, files, journals, singing, drawing, etc. are all tools that can be effective, but only if they are a good match for your specific learning style combination. The right tool in the right context for your learning style will help your get the result you're looking for when you work. It's interesting how experts first direct you to the tool without asking you to consider how you're different. Remember, it's your life, your work, your way. It doesn't rest in the hands of a self proclaimed, expert tool man or marketer. If you want someone who is genuinely interested in you and how you insticntivley work, then download the "ADD Processing Style" (Upper right hand corner of this page) and call me for a FREE SESSION. Together, we'll discuss what's been revealed to you and how to use that to your advantage.

Best Wishes Friends,

Steve Gundy, MSW, ACG 
Attention Coach