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Reality Check: Above and Beyond
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
Posted in Develop Understanding
Tagged encouragement, helpful, making choices, work
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Reality Check: Ratios and Relationships
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
Posted in Relationships
Tagged improving relationships, making choices, perception
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Reality Check: Our Best Selves
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
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged choosing actions, choosing thoughts, discouragement, making choices, perception
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Reality Check: Tension
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
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged dissatisfaction, internal & external control, making choices, motivation, total behaviour
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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: 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: Strategies for Choice
Previously, I discussed a theory popularized by Barry Schwartz in, “The Paradox of Choice” that there are two choice-making approaches. Some people are maximizers; intent on making the absolute best choices they possibly can. Others are satisficers, who stop looking … Continue reading
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged "should", examining wants, making choices, worry
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