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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 →
Posted in Making a Change
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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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Reality Check: The Art of Asking Questions
When someone asks you a question, it’s a great feeling to be able to answer with confidence and competence. The ability to answer questions is a useful skill. Another skill that’s just as valuable is the ability to ask questions. … Continue reading →
Posted in Develop Understanding
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Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, examining options, examining wants
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Reality Check: Upsides and Downsides
Is there such a thing as too much optimism? Does optimism have a downside? My general belief is that there are upsides and downsides for most everything. Thus the process of making choices is pretty simple, in theory anyway. All … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, examining options, making choices
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Reality Check: The Face of Kindness
A common bit of advice for living a good life is, “Be kind.” I certainly agree. Kindness will likely result in better relationships, quality of life, and more happiness than being nasty. It’s obvious what it means to “be kind.” … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing actions, encouragement, examining options, helpful, improving relationships
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Reality Check: Finding Affinity
If you’ve ever been overwhelmed, you know it’s not very pleasant. When you are faced with demands from all sides, unknowns about the future, all the uncertainties…It’s overwhelming. As I was reviewing a tool used with teams to gather and … Continue reading →
Posted in Develop Understanding
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Tagged choosing thoughts, examining options, learning, offering information, priorities
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Reality Check: Do your choices satisfy you?
We make many choices—some consequential; others trivial. Does your choice-making process satisfy you? Or aggravate you? Or does it depend on the choice? Barry Schwartz needed a pair of jeans. In the big scheme of things, picking out jeans isn’t … Continue reading →
Posted in Control and Choice
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Tagged anxiety, examining options, making choices, need satisfaction, worry
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Reality Check: Telling It Like It Is
Do you find it difficult to talk about things that are really important? It’s easier to talk about the trivial, especially when we agree. We commiserate about the weather and the price of gas. We share our delight about the … Continue reading →
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Tagged examining options, gratitude, guilt, reality
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Reality Check: Choosing Happiness from your Money
There are many more important things than money: health, family, relationships, personal growth, just to name a few. Money isn’t even mentioned in the choice theory list of five basic needs: security/survival, love/belonging, power, freedom, and fun. However, while money … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing actions, examining options, fun, happiness
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