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Category Archives: Choosing Perspective
Reality Check: The Happiness Benefit
Does happiness benefit happy people? Or is it the benefits that happy people have that cause their happiness? It’s the happiness version of the chicken and egg question; which comes first: the happiness or the benefits? For example, a happy … Continue reading
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Reality Check: The Reality of Imperfection
There’s plenty in society, culture, politics, education and life in general that’s not perfect. I don’t believe that it’s ever been perfect. I highly doubt that it ever will be perfect in the future. Furthermore, my views of what constitutes … Continue reading
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Tagged "should", comparing with others, making choices, reality
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Reality Check: Choosing Hope
Catastrophizing. It’s a dramatic word, isn’t it? When we look ahead, whether it’s to a new year or just an ordinary new day, we can look with a perspective that’s filled with hope for the promise of things to come. … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, choosing influences, choosing thoughts, encouragement, worry
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Reality Check: Look Back, What Do You See?
As we approach the end of another year, many of us like to take stock. Part of taking stock involves looking back over the past year or over many past years, to assess where we’ve been and where we are … Continue reading
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Reality Check: Feelings for the Future
Imagine the future. Maybe your daydreams are happy ones—winning the lottery, lazing on sandy beaches surrounded by loving friends and family. It’s a future with happiness, health, and good will. Or perhaps the future that springs to mind is filled … Continue reading
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Reality Check: The Big Pile-On
You may have noticed that when one thing goes badly, other things seem to go badly at the same time. The car breaks down, then the dog gets sick, and then your workplace explodes with new emergencies that apparently only … Continue reading
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Reality Check: Same Reality, Different Perspectives
Within my circle of friends and acquaintances, I hear more and more folks say, “I don’t listen to the news anymore.” Considering that we live in a time when news from all over is readily available, the decision to tune … Continue reading
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Reality Check: Can you do this?
Do you consider yourself highly motivated? Does your motivation come naturally to you, or do you have to work at it? For some of us, motivation seems to require an occasional kick in the pants, so to speak, to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged "should", anxiety, choosing thoughts, persistence
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Reality Check: Your Discouragement Antidote Kit
Does discouragement have a colour? If so, is it grey? How about discouraging weather? Rain, perhaps? When discouraged, does it seem like there’s a rainy, grey, discouraged filter over everything? For example, let’s say we feel happy and in control. … Continue reading
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