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Reality Check: Scorekeeping and Self-Evaluation
Scorekeeping. We’re all familiar with it. Whether your experience is on the soccer field or at the card table, you know that keeping score can add value to the game. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t keep doing it, right? Fundamentally, … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, comparing with others, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: Overcoming Shyness is an Employability Skill
In recent posts, I’ve suggested that the ability to get along with co-workers, bosses, and customers is a valuable employability skill. Unfortunately for some folks, shyness makes it difficult to get along. Have you ever perceived that the “sweet talkers” … Continue reading
Posted in Workplace
Tagged choosing actions, confidence, worry
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Reality Check: The Employability Skill of Getting Along… But How?
Last post, I suggested that the skill of “getting along” is essential if you are to succeed in most any workplace. If you find yourself in disputes or isolated from your co-workers, then it may help to work on your … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, conflict, improving relationships, win-win
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Reality Check: The Employability Skill of Getting Along
Employability skills are the skills that help you get and keep a job. You might have thought that the technical skills that enable you to do your specific job are all you need in the way of employability skills. For … Continue reading
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Reality Check: Building Emotional Resources
What comes to mind when you think of resources? There are natural resources—forests, fresh water, and minerals. There are financial resources—money in the bank and those toonies in your pocket. Companies refer to human resources—employees with skills and knowledge who … Continue reading
Posted in Doing, Thinking, Feeling, Physiology
Tagged choosing actions, happiness, total behaviour
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Reality Check: The Value of Delayed Gratification
Would you stop drinking all sugary drinks for a year for $500? That’s the offer that one family made to their children. You could view that as bribery. Or, you could view it as an innovative teaching method. Regardless, one … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, examining wants, need satisfaction
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Reality Check: Recalculating
Year end is a fine time to think about the big questions of life, such as: Where do I want to go? How will I get there? If you’re familiar with a certain brand of GPS (I call mine Martha) … Continue reading
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Reality Check: Comfort, Joy, and Food
There’s a reason why some foods are called “comfort food.” Like fuzzy socks or fleecy blankets, some foods evoke feelings of being safe, cared for, and satisfied. Whether your comfort food of choice is homemade bread, stew, or chicken pot … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, guilt, need satisfaction
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