Success Quote by Richard G. Scott

The phrase sounds like something you’d find in a church basement handout: practical, upbeat, a little corporate in its cheeriness. “Make a Goal Box” turns family work into a system you can draw, track, and, crucially, feel good about. That’s the intent: give helpers a tool that replaces vague good intentions with visible follow-through. A “chart of positive daily contact” is behaviorism with a pastoral accent - not just “care about this family,” but call, visit, praise, notice, log it.

The subtext is that families in crisis don’t change on inspiration alone; they change under sustained attention. Scott’s language quietly assumes two problems at once: first, that “working with” a family (clergy, counselors, church leaders) can become intermittent, reactive, and driven by emergencies; second, that the worker’s morale erodes without small proof that things are improving. The chart isn’t only for the family. It’s for the caretaker’s stamina, a way to convert emotionally messy relationships into measurable wins.

Context matters: as a clergyman of Scott’s generation, he’s speaking out of a midcentury religious culture that prized order, self-discipline, and managed optimism. “Positive” is doing a lot of work here. It implies that contact can be neutral, critical, or chaotic - and that choosing affirmation is a moral and strategic act. There’s also a gentle power dynamic: the family becomes an object of “work,” while the worker becomes the architect of goals. That can be stabilizing, or patronizing, depending on how much voice the family has in building the box.