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Thank you, Mike Cassidy for writing this piece in 1994.

It actually brought me a little attention and a great deal of affirmation.

I hope the San Jose Mercury News will forgive me for linking to it here.

We taught one sentence which amounted to an equation for driving safety and success:

Values + Attitudes = Behavior.

Drawing from the insights of Glasser's model of Reality Therapy, we taught that the willingness of the person to accept natural consequences of his/her behavior was key to the process of change.

Like Abraham Maslow, we affirmed that values are deeply embedded in societies (social values)  and individuals (personal values).

I have applied V+A=B to life in counseling, coaching, preaching, teaching, and writing about personal development.

I thank National Traffic Safety Institute and Dr. Jeffrey Chase, the founder,  for that tool.

I thank Mike Cassidy, who wrote for the San Jose Mercury New for 28 years for the props.

Mike can be found tweeting in his new incarnation at Twitter.