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Reality Check: The Urgent Request
“Trust you are well and keeping safe. Please I need your urgent assistance. Kindly get back to me. Thanks.” If you received those words in a message from a friend, what would you do? You’d probably kindly get back to … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing actions, examining options, freedom
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Reality Check: Off the Rails?
The opportunity to spend time with our thoughts can be marvellous. It’s a chance to examine our lives and our relationships. We can think about what we want and where we want to go. We could look at the choices … Continue reading →
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Tagged anxiety, choosing thoughts, examining options, perception
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Reality Check: Commencement
It’s graduation season! Congratulations to all of the graduates who are about to embark on a new phase in your lives. Perhaps this isn’t graduation time for you. Maybe it’s been a long time since you’ve felt like you’ve had … Continue reading →
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Reality Check: Adaptability and Optimism
A commentator on morning radio recently said, “The world needs a dose of optimism now.” Maybe that’s true. Optimism can help us turn around, look up, and find hope again. Are you a natural optimist? Some people seem to be. … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing thoughts, encouragement, examining options, learning, persistence, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: Managing our Personal Resources
Some folks are choosing to use the current disruption in their lives as an opportunity to reassess what’s important. That is, they are reassessing how they are using their personal resources. Every one of us has personal resources, even though … Continue reading →
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Tagged examining options, examining wants, priorities, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: The Tradeoffs in our Choices
Choice-making can be difficult. When you choose one thing, you close the door on something else. Giving up options can be painful. If one option offered only benefits and another option offered only risks, then the choice hardly qualifies as … Continue reading →
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Tagged anxiety, examining options, making choices, responsibility
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Reality Check: Take It to Heart? Or Not?
Whenever people need to interact with each other, there are opportunities for conflict. Conflict shows up among friends, within families, in community discussions and at workplaces. That’s no surprise. After all, one reason for conflict is because people don’t agree … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing actions, conflict, discouragement, examining options
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Reality Check: Reassessing Wants
Dr. Robert Wubbolding suggests a deceptively simple four-part structure derived from the practice of Reality Therapy. He calls it WDEP: Want, Do, (self)Evaluate, and Plan. The practice starts with, “What do you want?” Wants can be surprisingly confusing and the … Continue reading →
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Tagged confidence, conflict, examining options, improving relationships, need satisfaction
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Reality Check: The Making of a Habit
The coming of the New Year inspires many of us to make New Year’s resolutions. If you have been thinking that a change in your behaviour is in order, then the New Year is as good a time as any … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing actions, examining options, examining wants, persistence
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Reality Check: Prepare, Then Forge On With Optimism
Back in my childhood, roughly a thousand years ago, there were a few popular doomsday scenarios that described how awful the world would be when I grew up. If I managed to make it to adulthood, that is. For example, … Continue reading →
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Tagged anxiety, choosing actions, choosing influences, examining options, responsibility, worry
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