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Reality Check: Your Menu Choices
If you want something to grow, it’s generally a good idea to feed it. Don’t want more? Then don’t feed it. That reasoning seems to hold true for the waistline; what if we apply it to emotions? Noreen looks back … Continue reading →
Posted in Making a Change
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Tagged examining options, fairness, frustration, making choices
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Reality Check: What we choose to want
We do a lot of comparing, don’t we? In Choice Theory, Dr. Glasser even talks about a “comparing place” in our brains. He uses the image of a balance scale; on one side sits what we want and on the … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Perspective
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Tagged choosing actions, dissatisfaction, examining options, examining wants
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Reality Check: The Available Choices
Are you ever in a situation where you have no good choices? It’s especially difficult if you can picture the perfect choice. You wish that option was available; you might even mislead yourself into believing it exists, when in fact, … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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Tagged conflict, examining options, examining wants, improving relationships, making choices
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Reality Check: Guilt, Conscience, and Manipulation
Many people are guided by conscience when they choose their actions. Conscience can motivate us to reach out and offer support, which can be relationship building and benefit both the giver and the receiver. Support can take many forms: emotional, … Continue reading →
Posted in Control and Choice
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Tagged "should", examining options, making choices
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Reality Check: Indecision, Imperfection, and Kale
My plan this year was to plant a nice bed of kale. I envisioned a continuous supply of fresh kale for lovely, nutritious salads. Buying the kale seeds was easy. But I couldn’t decide where to plant them. It was … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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Tagged examining options, making choices, persistence
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Reality Check: Would you call your money names?
Do you make your decisions based on solid information, i.e. the facts? I’d like to think that I do, but honestly, I know that’s not always the case. My perspective on whatever it is that I’m trying to decide has … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Perspective
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Tagged basic needs, examining options, making choices, perception, priorities
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Reality Check: Perspectives and Hats
When you’re stuck on a difficult problem, it can be useful to look at it from different perspectives. One way to get different perspectives is to gather together a team of people, each of whom has their own special expertise … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing influences, choosing thoughts, examining options, perception
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Reality Check: Doing our Best
What does it mean to do our best? As I’m far from perfect, I know that the best that I can do in a given situation isn’t necessarily the best that could be done. If “doing our best” doesn’t mean … Continue reading →
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Tagged examining options, improving relationships, internal & external control, perception
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Reality Check: The Question of Gravity
How’s gravity working for you? Yes, gravity—that force that keeps us on the surface of the earth. Do you like it? Maybe life would be better if there was less gravity so we could gently float around. Or maybe gravity … Continue reading →
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Tagged choosing thoughts, examining options, motivation, perception, reality
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Reality Check: The Abuse of Courtesy
If you have a telephone, at some point you’ve probably gotten a call that goes something like this: The phone rings. You answer. There’s a long buzzy pause as a piece of equipment somewhere figures out that they have a … Continue reading →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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Tagged examining options, freedom, power
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