Tag Archives: making choices

Reality Check: The Trade-offs We Choose

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Suuze

In case your mind feels like it’s still on holiday, here’s a little scenario to spark your imagination. You are going down a hallway behind a person on crutches. They are proceeding hesitantly; giving you the impression that the crutches … Continue reading →

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Reality Check: Every Little Choice

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Suuze

Different stages of our lives bring the opportunity to make different life-changing decisions. Who to marry, where to live, what career to choose, where to work, what house to buy; those decisions, among others, can have significant consequences. Big choices … Continue reading →

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Reality Check: Above and Beyond

Posted on October 18, 2020 by Suuze

You can tell when you’re dealing with someone who goes above and beyond. It’s the store clerk who not only asks if you’ve found what you’re looking for, but who makes sure that it meets your needs. It’s the person … Continue reading →

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Reality Check: Ratios and Relationships

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Suuze

I’ll bet you were hoping for a math lesson today, so here you go: A ratio is essentially a pair of numbers that defines a relationship. And we all know that the value and quality of our relationships plays a … Continue reading →

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Reality Check: Our Best Selves

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Suuze

What comes to your mind when I refer to our best selves? Is our best self when we “put our best foot forward?” Perhaps so. However, if putting our best foot forward is only to make a good impression—essentially, to … Continue reading →

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Reality Check: Tension

Posted on June 14, 2020 by Suuze

In his book, Counseling with Choice Theory, Dr. Wm. Glasser describes his first meeting with a guy he calls Jerry. When Jerry walked into Glasser’s office for their first session, he avoided walking on the lines in the carpet. Then … Continue reading →

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Reality Check: The Tradeoffs in our Choices

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Suuze

Choice-making can be difficult. When you choose one thing, you close the door on something else. Giving up options can be painful. If one option offered only benefits and another option offered only risks, then the choice hardly qualifies as … Continue reading →

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Reality Check: Choosing Your Advisors

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Suuze

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 →

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Reality Check: Upsides and Downsides

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Suuze

Is there such a thing as too much optimism? Does optimism have a downside? My general belief is that there are upsides and downsides for most everything. Thus the process of making choices is pretty simple, in theory anyway. All … Continue reading →

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Reality Check: Helpful Habits

Posted on June 16, 2019 by Suuze

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 →

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