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Reality Check: Resources and Resourcefulness
Picture yourself stranded on a desert island (or an island off Nova Scotia.) As you are “stranded,” it’s implied that you didn’t intend to be in this situation and it’s definitely not what you want. Now what do you do? … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged choosing actions, confidence, helpful, responsibility
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Reality Check: The Upsides and Downsides of Filters
Even inanimate objects are not immune to the changes of time. My reminder of that came recently when I tried to listen to an old speech recorded on VHS tape. Magnetic tapes deteriorate even when not used. Those words from … Continue reading
Posted in Perception & Reality
Tagged conflict, filters, helpful, perception
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Reality Check: The Compassion of Listening
If you have an active imagination, you may have a conversation going on in your head right now while you’re reading this. Perhaps you are arguing with yourself over whether you should have said that thing you said to your … Continue reading
Posted in Helping Others
Tagged encouragement, helpful, improving relationships, offering information
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Reality Check: Choosing Your Advisors
Whether we ask for it or not, we are often on the receiving end of advice. For example, when your mother-in-law tells you that you should have put your snow tires on two weeks ago, you might not have identified … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Freedom
Tagged "should", choosing influences, comparing with others, criticism, encouragement, helpful, making choices
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Reality Check: The Helping Professions
Many people have a genuine wish to be helpful; that is, to take actions that are of service to others. Wanting to help is a fine aspiration. To be of service benefits both the helper and those who are helped. … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, helpful, reality, work
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Reality Check: What does your mind rest upon?
Dr. Rick Hanson writes a regular email newsletter called Just One Thing, subtitled, “Simple practices for resilient happiness.” In a recent publication, he said, “There is a traditional saying that the mind takes its shape from what it rests upon.” … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing influences, choosing thoughts, helpful, perception
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Reality Check: Much Ado About Recognition
The onset of summer is a great time of year. There’s fresh grass, baby birds, the promise of warmth, and maybe even some leisure time! For me, this time of year often coincides with finalizing some activities and interactions. Thus, … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged encouragement, helpful, offering information
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Reality Check: Helpful Habits
What are your habits? What actions have you practiced so much that they are now a regular, perhaps even a mindless, part of life? Some habits are deliberate; we’ve consciously initiated them. For example, perhaps you practice the beneficial habit … Continue reading
Posted in Making a Change
Tagged choosing actions, helpful, making choices, persistence
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Reality Check: The Joy of Ownership
The other day, while I was picking up trash by the roadside, I pondered the things that one tends to ponder while picking up trash by the roadside. For example, I pondered, “Why would anyone throw their trash on the … Continue reading
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Tagged confidence, happiness, helpful, perception
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