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Category Archives: Making a Change
Reality Check: Building Purpose
Some building materials are in scarce supply at the moment. Rumour has it that’s because there are a lot of home improvement projects going on. With schedules disrupted during the pandemic, it seems like everyone and their dog is using … Continue reading
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Tagged basic needs, choosing actions, learning, need satisfaction, work
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Reality Check: To Change Ourselves
There must be thousands of personality tests available on websites, magazines, and facebook. Some people think they’re silly, but plenty of others like them. People like to learn about themselves, and many also have a wish along the lines of, … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, examining wants, need satisfaction, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: Helpful Habits
What are your habits? What actions have you practiced so much that they are now a regular, perhaps even a mindless, part of life? Some habits are deliberate; we’ve consciously initiated them. For example, perhaps you practice the beneficial habit … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, helpful, making choices, persistence
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Reality Check: Choices in Conflict
What does it mean to win a conflict? Does it mean that you prevailed on the issue, i.e. got your way? Does it mean that you are recognized by others as the clear victor while your opponent is humiliated? Perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, conflict, improving relationships, perception
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Reality Check: A Chosen New Year
You’re only one person, but I know that you play many roles. You may be a mother or a father. You may be a partner in a relationship. Each of us is, or has been, someone’s child. You may identify … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, internal & external control, priorities
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Reality Check: Aesop’s Snake
Do you believe there’s good in everyone? That even the most awful person is good at their core? Values and beliefs form part of what Dr. Wm. Glasser refers to as our “Quality World.” Our beliefs influence our perceptions, decisions … Continue reading
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Tagged "should", examining wants, internal & external control
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Reality Check: Change–Like it or Not? Part 1
If you’re a person or group promoting a change that’s being met with opposition, it can be comforting to blame the opposition on the assertion “people don’t like change.” When you believe that you are facing resistance because other people … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, frustration, offering information, perception
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