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Category Archives: Choosing Behaviour
Reality Check: At the mercy of events?
Whether you are on the search for your first job or your fifteenth, during the job-hunt process, you’ll likely experience both encouraging and disheartening events. Those events can trigger feelings: excitement and optimism after a good interview; distress and discouragement … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, making choices
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Reality Check: Effective Living in a Material World
Karen, introduced last column, has bones to pick with society and its emphasis on materialism. At the drop of a hat (or shopping bag) Karen can launch into a tirade. Her theme: “We are bombarded with high pressure sales; credit … Continue reading
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Tagged "should", choosing actions, making choices
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Reality Check: A Material World
Time and again, I hear folks say, “We are too materialistic; we buy too much; we throw too much away. We have too much debt, we have too much stress; we should stop living like this.” Does that sound familiar … Continue reading
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Tagged "should", guilt, internal & external control
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Reality Check: Possibilities and Potential
Lauren has a dream, and she’s talked about this dream for years. When she’s asked what she does, Lauren replies without hesitation: “My dream is to open a home for challenged youth.” People who know and love Lauren encourage her … Continue reading
Posted in Making a Change
Tagged discouragement, examining wants, perception
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Reality Check: From Self-Evaluation to Change
Self-evaluation, in the choice theory perspective, is that important step when we look at what we do and make a judgment about it. The word “judgment” often carries a negative connotation; however, judgment is helpful when you use it to … Continue reading
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Tagged examining wants, freedom, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: The Hard Work of Positive Thinking
When discouragement hits, it can be hard to imagine that you have any choice at all about how you feel. The total behaviour aspect of choice theory states that taking action of some sort is the most direct approach to … Continue reading
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Tagged discouragement, learning, unhappiness
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