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Reality Check: Strength or Weakness?
Every one of us has specific strengths. If you like to learn about yourself, then it can be quite satisfying to figure out your individual strengths and how to best use them to reach your goals. Strengths are generally positive … Continue reading
Posted in Develop Understanding
Tagged fairness, improving relationships, perception, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: Building a Relationship – Deliberately
We might take the building of relationships for granted. Relationships just happen—we meet someone; we hit it off for whatever reason, and we have a relationship! To be clear, I’m not referring to romantic relationships here. I’m talking about the … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged choosing thoughts, helpful, improving relationships, priorities
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Reality Check: Choices in Conflict
What does it mean to win a conflict? Does it mean that you prevailed on the issue, i.e. got your way? Does it mean that you are recognized by others as the clear victor while your opponent is humiliated? Perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Making a Change
Tagged choosing actions, conflict, improving relationships, perception
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Reality Check: Relationships and the Bottom Line
When we talk about improving relationships, you might think it’s touchy-feely advice for personal relationships. However, we have business relationships, too. Is your workplace filled with good relationships? Or does it have its share of poor, dysfunctional relationships? Pretty much … Continue reading
Posted in Workplace
Tagged conflict, improving relationships, motivation, work
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Reality Check: Cards of Connection
My grandmother used to send out Christmas cards. Not just a few cards; it must have been hundreds. Well, maybe “hundreds” is an exaggerated memory, but I clearly recollect the lengthy list of names in the little notebook that emerged … Continue reading
Posted in Love & Belonging
Tagged basic needs, improving relationships, making choices
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Reality Check: Setting the Tone
The other day, we were reminiscing about Barry. If Barry asked you to do something, you would do it, even if it was inconvenient. Barry is just the kind of guy that you want to help out. As we were … Continue reading
Posted in Develop Understanding
Tagged helpful, improving relationships, priorities, work
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Reality Check: When Fairness Holds Us Back
The mother-daughter conflict story told in Choice Theory by Dr. Glasser that I’ve been referring to has one more interesting dimension that some of us might find troubling. Briefly, the story goes like this: Mom works all day and is … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged "should", examining wants, fairness, improving relationships
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Reality Check: What would you choose?
A story told by Dr. Glasser in Choice Theory describes a mother-daughter relationship that had once been good but has now turned sour. Mom works all day. She comes home; her teenage daughter is lazing around watching TV. The kitchen … Continue reading
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged "should", conflict, improving relationships, internal & external control
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Reality Check: Love, Clarified and Committed
Recently I was gifted with a book entitled, “What is this thing called Love?” Written by Dr. Glasser and his wife Carleen, the book has a clear purpose. It’s for women who have been told, “I love you,” but who … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged examining wants, improving relationships, making choices, need satisfaction
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