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Reality Check: A Stress Test
This is not a test. However, if you want a test, here are a few questions you might ask. On a scale from 1 to 10, how stressed are you? How do you know that you are stressed? Do you … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged anxiety, choosing thoughts, perception, worry
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Reality Check: Maybe I Can…
When many of us lost power during the recent snowstorm, our habitual routines were disrupted. While even I am not old enough to remember cozy gatherings around oil lamps in the pre-electricity days, I understand it was not all “bad … Continue reading
Posted in Satisfaction
Tagged choosing actions, choosing influences, choosing thoughts, perception
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Reality Check: Dilbert and Beyond
Scott Adams has passed away. To many, Adams is known primarily as the creator of Dilbert, that cartoon character with the flipped-up tie and a sincere effort to do his job well despite the challenges of a less than-perfect workplace. … Continue reading
Posted in Develop Understanding
Tagged choosing thoughts, conflict, improving relationships, perception
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Reality Check: The Positive Power of Doing Something
Any time is a good time to assess how things are going, and the dawning of the New Year can add an extra little motivational kick. Thus, I’d recently suggested that now is a great time to take stock; to … Continue reading
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, gratitude, motivation
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Reality Check: Fresh New Year, Fresh New Changes
There are changes coming! While I’m at it, I may as well throw in a prediction about Maritime weather: It’s going to change! Not a big surprise, is it? Changes happen; some for the better; others just make things worse. … Continue reading
Posted in Making a Change
Tagged change, choosing actions, choosing thoughts
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Reality Check: Choosing Direction
Both good events and bad events are happening all the time. Babies are born, but loved ones pass away. Financial situations rise or fall. Living arrangements change for the better or for the worse. Friends and family may draw closer … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing thoughts, improving relationships, perception
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Reality Check: The Rock and the Hard Place
There may be times when we find ourselves with a conflict so profound, so unsolvable, that it truly is like being between a rock and a hard place. No matter what you do; what creative solutions you dream up, reality … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, examining wants, making choices
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Reality Check: A Fresh Start
Autumn mornings are the best in my opinion. The air is fresh, the sun shines; it’s a new day. It could get us thinking that “each day is a fresh start.” Put our past troubles and trials aside; we’re starting … Continue reading
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Tagged basic needs, choosing actions, choosing thoughts, perception
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Reality Check: The Wisdom of the Second Look
When we cross a busy street, we look both ways to make sure the coast is clear. It’s often prudent to take a second look before we set out, as we might overlook a potential threat the first time. If … Continue reading
Posted in Needs
Tagged basic needs, choosing thoughts, examining wants, need satisfaction
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