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Reality Check: The Battle for your Beliefs
Attempts to influence and persuade us are everywhere. Advertisements are essentially attempts to influence: Buy this product! Donate to this cause! Believe these beliefs! Personalized ads and information are particularly persuasive. For example, if I can make my company’s ad … Continue reading
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged choosing influences, making choices
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Reality Check: Experiments in Liking
Do you remember when liking referred to having an affectionate feeling toward someone? Now, for many, “liking” means clicking a mouse on a little thumbs-up sign. Either way, liking indicates a positive emotional response. It’s a sign of approval, support, … Continue reading
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged choosing influences, choosing thoughts, freedom, power
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Reality Check: Can your Belief Change your Reality?
Many of us feel stressed. Challenges, fears, upsets, and disappointments abound. People, institutions, politicians, employers and many others don’t behave as we want them to. A lot of those stressors are outside of our control. And even though we know … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged anxiety, choosing thoughts, total behaviour, worry
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Reality Check: Finding the Joy
There is a woodchuck in my life. He lives close enough so I see him when he emerges from his den to sprawl on his rock in the sun. He’s far enough away, and much too wary of me, to … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged gratitude, happiness, perception
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Reality Check: Choices in Caring
Caring, loving, supporting, and encouraging are wonderful, positive behaviours. When we genuinely care for each other, we can improve our relationships and satisfy our need for love and belonging. As we can only control ourselves, it’s helpful to offer our … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged "should", freedom, perception, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: The paradoxical freedom of structure
If you’re like a lot of us, you don’t appreciate it when someone tells you what you should do. Some of us take that distaste for being “told” even further. We’ll keep our options open, even to the point where … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged basic needs, freedom, making choices, priorities
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Reality Check: Influencers, Helpers, and Heroes
We may never know the effect of extending a small kindness. In fact, we could perform a genuinely heroic act and never learn the result. We may not even know whether anyone noticed. Being helpful and kind is more satisfying … Continue reading
Posted in Helping Others
Tagged choosing actions, confidence, encouragement, gratitude
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Reality Check: The Value of Lobster
The lobster fishery has been a way of life for generations of families along the South Shore. It’s literally put food on lots of tables. As I don’t come from fishing folk, I wasn’t aware of how the perception of … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged choosing influences, making choices, perception, reality
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