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Reality Check: When you doubt yourself
While unjustified confidence can be perceived as arrogance, justifiable confidence is a positive quality. Self-doubt, for any of us, can result in a lack of enjoyment of our lives. An athlete who loses confidence can lose their enjoyment of the … Continue reading
Posted in Doing, Thinking, Feeling, Physiology
Tagged anxiety, confidence, total behaviour, worry
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Reality Check: When there’s no perfect option
Have you ever needed to make a decision, only to find that there isn’t a single perfect option among the possibilities? That’s the usual case, isn’t it? If there were a perfect option, we’d go right ahead and choose that. … Continue reading
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged basic needs, examining wants, making choices, need satisfaction
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Reality Check: Aged and Happy
If we are fortunate, we grow old. If we are happy and satisfied as we grow old, we are very fortunate indeed. What contributes to being happy as we grow older? In recent columns, I’ve concentrated on practices suggested by … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, happiness, making choices
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Reality Check: Happiness and Self-Responsibility
Self-responsibility. In some circles, it’s practically a dirty word. It seems that a cold and frightening picture comes to mind for some folks when they hear that there’s a move afoot to promote self-reliance as a useful skill. It’s as … Continue reading
Posted in Helping Others
Tagged blame, choosing actions, motivation, offering information, perception
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Reality Check:The Happiness of Turning Toward
Have I told you lately that I love you? In any series of articles that’s looking to help increase our happiness, you knew that sooner or later, love would have to show up! It’s well-established that an important factor in … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged choosing actions, happiness, improving relationships
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Reality Check: Your Happiness and Other People’s Stuff
An application of choice theory called WDEP starts with, “What do you want?” Different people want different things. Taking the time to first identify what you want helps you choose what actions to take to get it. “What you want” … Continue reading
Posted in Satisfaction
Tagged comparing with others, examining wants, happiness, perception
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Reality Check: The Happiness of Eliminating Options
Keeping our options open is often perceived as positive. “What are you doing for vacation?” “I’m keeping my options open.” Or, “Have you decided who you will marry?” “No, I’m keeping my options open.” There’s a delightful sense of freedom … Continue reading
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged anxiety, freedom, making choices, perception
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Reality Check: All Work and All Play
Think back to when you’ve had a really satisfying day. Perhaps it was yesterday! Or maybe you have to search your memory and go back years. No matter. Just think of a good, satisfying day that you’ve actually experienced—not one … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged choosing actions, happiness, motivation, work
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Reality Check: Practice Makes Better
We get good at what we practice. Even if we never completely master a skill, the more we practice, the more we improve. Conversely, if we don’t practice, we won’t improve and may even lose what skill we had. In … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged anxiety, choosing actions, happiness, worry
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Reality Check: To Rely and to Be Reliable
There’s a particular satisfaction for me when someone I know has made progress in their life. It’s especially gratifying if I can perceive that I had contributed to that progress, even in a tiny way. Often, the achievements are relatively … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged choosing actions, happiness, improving relationships
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