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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 →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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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 →
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
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Tagged choosing actions, examining options, fun, happiness
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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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