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Reality Check: Choosing Our Perceptions
Would your life be different if you could control your emotions? You could decide, “I’m choosing to be happy, confident, optimistic!” Or, “I’m choosing to be angry, anxious, resentful.” Either way, with this power, you’d have control over how you … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged choosing thoughts, examining wants, making choices, perception
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Reality Check: The Price of a Mistake
How do you make decisions? Perhaps you use a process, such as: start by collecting information, discuss the issue with people you trust, then weigh pros and cons, and finally, based on logic and due diligence, you decide! If you … Continue reading
Posted in Develop Understanding
Tagged making choices, responsibility, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: What We Can Learn From Our Decisions
While all of us make decisions, some of us approach decision-making with more enthusiasm than others. Some folks love having choices and no matter what they choose, seem to spend nary a second in self-doubt. Then there are the rest … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged making choices, need satisfaction, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: Having Trouble Getting Started?
Wait, delay, and put it off. For some people, procrastination is practically an identity, as in, “I’ve always been a procrastinator and that’s just who I am.” This is fine, until it’s not. Putting off can ultimately result in poor … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged choosing actions, examining wants, making choices, motivation
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Reality Check: Ups and Downs of People Pleasing
Jo is upset. She would like to please her friend Maggie but if she does, she’ll end up unhappy with herself. Maggie is insisting that Jo spend essentially all of her free time with her. We all know that no … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged "should", dissatisfaction, examining wants, making choices
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Reality Check: Make Something Good Happen
The transition from one year to the next often motivates us to make a change, preferably for the better. Maybe you want to set out on a new adventure or improve a relationship. Holidays often include opportunities to get together. … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Freedom
Tagged choosing actions, dissatisfaction, examining wants, making choices
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Reality Check: When You Need To Say No
Somewhere, sometime, someone is going to ask you for something. They may ask for your time, your help, your money. You want to say “No.” There are many valid reasons to decline. Maybe you feel stretched too thin. Maybe you … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships
Tagged "should", anxiety, conflict, making choices
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