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Reality Check: Creating the Helpful Habit
Are you stressed? Is there too much to do, no time to do it? Do undone tasks scurry around in the back of your mind, popping up at inconvenient times? Many tasks are never fully done. Do you remember this … Continue reading →
Posted in Making a Change
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Tagged choosing actions, examining options, guilt, worry
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Reality Check: New Year’s Values
It’s the traditional season to make promises to ourselves: how we’ll change our lives, what we will achieve, what disciplines we will force on ourselves… While each day is as valuable as another, taking stock of life at New Year’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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Tagged choosing actions, examining options, happiness
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Reality Check: Great Expectations
Hannah perceives that she is criticized. When family or friends get together, she comes away feeling like an underachiever. Her brother’s children excel, her sister makes more money, and her friends’ lives are more exciting. Although no one is critical … Continue reading →
Posted in Personal Freedom
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Tagged choosing actions, examining options, internal & external control
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Reality Check: Turn Around
Relationships have differences. If those differences aren’t handled well, they can lead to unfortunate consequences: marriage breakup, financial hardship, traumatized children. Differences at work can lead to people quitting or being fired, to stress, anxiety, lost productivity, and lost opportunities. … Continue reading →
Posted in Relationships
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Tagged examining options, fairness, negotiation
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Reality Check: The Dragonfly’s Options
A dragonfly trapped himself in the porch the other day. You know how that goes, don’t you? For a long time, he beat his head and wings against the closed window, while the open door stood beckoning barely six inches … Continue reading →
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Tagged examining options, offering information, perception
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Reality Check: Pattern Making
We’re all familiar with habits. We do the same thing over and over; a choice becomes so ingrained that it seems automatic. For example, I wake up; I drink coffee. No thought involved! Rick has a habit of buying exercise … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing actions, examining options
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Reality Check: Both Sides Now
No matter how close two people are, they will have differences. What do we do when we differ? Sometimes we blame: “It’s your fault…” We might try bribery: “If you come home, I’ll let you go fishing.” Or we might … Continue reading →
Posted in Relationships
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Tagged examining options, negotiation, perception
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Reality Check: Mirror, Mirror continued
Last time, I introduced you to Sam, who has been having conflicts with just about everyone, most recently including the law. As you care about Sam, you want to help. Sam has already told you that he doesn’t want to … Continue reading →
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Tagged examining options, freedom, making choices, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: Rise or Sink?
Much like a community or a family, a workplace has its own atmosphere and culture. Some places are productive, filled with industrious people who are happy at their work. Other workplaces seem angry or sullen, where even simple tasks take … Continue reading →
Posted in Workplace
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Tagged discouragement, dissatisfaction, examining options
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Reality Check: Evaluate your Information
Is depression linked to drinking diet drinks? Do teenage drivers have more daytime accidents than at night? And can you really prevent diabetes by eating more cheese? A new day; a new study. The media breathlessly reports what we now … Continue reading →
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Tagged "should", examining options, self-evaluation
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