A YAQologist’s Guide to Easy YAQing

YAQ, v, (YAQed, YAQing, YAQs), verb – to engage in elevated or important conversations.

Elevated Conversation, noun – Conversations that genuinely captivate people in a topic of interest and importance. They often include a discussion about how character qualities affect action.

Character (Personal), noun – the inner collection of positive qualities we develop throughout our lives that guide our choices about how to think, speak, and act in beneficial ways.

CharacterYAQ, noun, verb – YAQs (conversations) that are infused with people demonstrating personal character qualities. Mostly used in relationships of all types, such as business, friendships, family, community, and relationship partners.

YAQologist, noun – A person dedicated to promoting YAQing in all discourse and the betterment of individual lives, family dynamics, community well-being, organizational effectiveness, and civilizational functioning.

Character YAQology, noun – The study of how character qualities and personal character affect individuals, relationships of all types, families, communities, organizations, and society.

Integrity, noun – A set of character qualities that allow one to be honest and have upright character.

Virtues, noun – A commonly misunderstood term that has many meanings to many people.  Our preference is to use the term “character quality”. See above.

A YAQologist’s Guide to Challenging YAQING

Ethics, noun – (1) A set of principles that gives someone a basis for making positive choices.  (2) A set of rules and regulations, written or unwritten, that govern the behavior of a collection of individuals, organizations, or institutions.

Morals, noun –A set of personal beliefs that sets the standard of the correctness of one’s behavior.

Personality Traits, noun – A collection of stable psychological constructs, often described as a continuum between opposing characteristics, that contribute to an individual’s distinctness. Examples of personality traits are: Conscientiousness, Extraversion/Introversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience.

Principles, noun – A perceived fundamental truth that serves as the foundation for a system of belief, behavior, or chain of reasoning.  

Strengths, noun – Those character qualities an individual has developed to the point where they enable the person to behave in ways that positively affect other individuals, communities, and organizations.

Values, noun – Beliefs, principles, morals, ethics, and codes of conduct that an individual believes are important and that act as the standard from which they judge their behavior and the behavior of others.

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