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Reality Check: To Speak or to Avoid?
Illnesses, losses and tragedies happen. When you know someone who is experiencing a significant difficulty, it can be hard to know what to say. How do you react when you see that person coming down the sidewalk? Do you think, … Continue reading
Posted in Helping Others
Tagged anxiety, encouragement, helpful, improving relationships
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Reality Check: Essential Connections
When things are going well, some of us don’t feel a great need to seek out connections with others. We’re content to forge along and make our progress without a great deal of interaction. When things are going badly however, … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged encouragement, improving relationships, need satisfaction, perception
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Reality Check: Doing the Hard Thing
“I don’t even know why I am doing this.” My friend, who we’ll call Julie for this little story, had hit a rough spot on her way toward a goal that’s important to her. Because I’m a loyal friend with … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, discouragement, encouragement, examining wants, motivation
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Reality Check: Agreements Among Friends
My old friend passed away. After a century of life, he’d reached his natural end. While our friendship was not so very old; it spanned only about a decade, it had huge influence on me. It was a special friendship, … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged encouragement, friendship, fun, gratitude
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Reality Check: The Compassion of Listening
If you have an active imagination, you may have a conversation going on in your head right now while you’re reading this. Perhaps you are arguing with yourself over whether you should have said that thing you said to your … Continue reading
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Tagged encouragement, helpful, improving relationships, offering information
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Reality Check: Choosing Your Advisors
Whether we ask for it or not, we are often on the receiving end of advice. For example, when your mother-in-law tells you that you should have put your snow tires on two weeks ago, you might not have identified … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Freedom
Tagged "should", choosing influences, comparing with others, criticism, encouragement, helpful, making choices
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Reality Check: Choosing Hope
When you consider the future, do you see better days ahead? Or are you more likely to think, “Things are going downhill fast”? Attitude matters. There’s almost a sense of virtue that’s associated with choosing to adopt a positive attitude … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, encouragement, perception, self-evaluation
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