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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 11 Oct 2011
Time: 09:54:13 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.31
Kelly, You have some wonderful insights from Lynn and Charlie. Print those out and put them in your files to refer to in the future when you have a client who seems not to share your enthusiasm for making changes in his/her speech. I would add one simple point. In my book, motivation isn't something that someone "has," or motivated is not something that someone "is." Motivation is the end product of two dynamics, COST versus BENEFIT. If something "costs" you more in time, effort, money, status, etc. than the "benefit" you believe you will get out of it, you will not be "motivated" to pursue it. And of course, to the extent that the "benefit" outweighs the "cost," you'll be, probably to that precise degree, "motivated." My $.02 worth. Ken