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Reality Check: When the Choice Isn’t Clear
How do you make decisions? We’re influenced by experience, preferences, perhaps trustworthy advice. And there are emotions, too. When we’re feeling fearful, angry or resentful, we likely won’t make the same decisions as when we are brimming with confidence, love, … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing actions, conflict, examining options, making choices
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Reality Check: Distinguishing Events from Responses
“The pandemic affected almost every aspect of our lives.” Like you, I’ve heard statements similar to that over recent years. It’s been said both in casual conversations and in media. This time, for some reason, it struck me as being … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Perspective
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Tagged anxiety, blame, choosing influences, examining options, making choices
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Reality Check: Step by Step
Different people like different things. One clear example is in food preparation. Some people love recipes; others hate recipes. Some of us like to follow procedures; others don’t. If you like procedures, then you might like Dr. Bob Wubbolding’s four-step … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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Tagged choosing actions, examining options, examining wants, internal & external control
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Reality Check: Running for the Roses
It’s extraordinary when a little guy—an outsider—unexpectedly wins a big event. This year’s Kentucky Derby was notable for exactly that: a huge 80-1 win by Rich Strike, a horse that just the day before didn’t look like he was going … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, examining options, persistence
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Reality Check: The Joy and the Sadness of Special Events
It’s been customary to mark special occurrences in our lives with events. We celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, graduations and other happy occasions. We also mark sad, difficult events with funerals and memorials. So much has changed in just a few … Continue reading →
Posted in Develop Understanding
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Tagged "should", choosing actions, examining options, examining wants, improving relationships
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Reality Check: Other People’s Choices
We make decisions—big and small—throughout our lives. Ideally, we would weigh pros and cons and choose the perfect win-win solution. Reality, however, often presents us with situations that offer no perfect option, yet we must still decide! If you’ve been … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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Tagged basic needs, examining options, making choices, need satisfaction
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Reality Check: Urgency and Importance
As we approach the end of a second unusual year, people are making plans for the holidays. So much is so different now. There are decisions to make about gatherings, purchases, and traditions. How do you decide what to do? … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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Tagged "should", anxiety, choosing actions, examining options, making choices
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Reality Check: I’d Rather Choose…
One of the tips from a popular money-management book entitled “The Smart Cookies” is something the authors refer to as the “Rather Factor.” It’s easy to forget a budget when we are faced with an appealing impulse purchase. After we’ve … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, examining options, examining wants
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Reality Check: When you tell yourself a story
“Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.” If you’re a Canadian folk song aficionado of a certain age, you may be humming that Stan Rogers song right now. The Mary Ellen Carter isn’t just a catchy tune; it tells a … Continue reading →
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Tagged examining options, freedom, frustration, making choices, motivation
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Reality Check: Earning and Power
“It’s just a summer job to earn some money.” The young man on the flagging crew knows that his long hot days on the road are not his career. Cheerfully, he filled me in about the university program that will … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing influences, examining options, examining wants, need satisfaction, power
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