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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: Does Time Fly?
Wow! It’s mid-summer already! How did that happen? It seems like just a few minutes ago, we were scraping snow off the walkways. Time goes so quickly, day after day, week upon week, with whole months, even years, flying by. … Continue reading
Posted in Perception & Reality
Tagged choosing actions, choosing influences, need satisfaction, perception
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Reality Check: The Most Basic Need of All
In recent columns, I’ve explored four of the five basic needs that Dr. Glasser suggested are common to all of us. Among those needs is the need for love and belonging. We need to know that we are not alone … Continue reading
Posted in Needs
Tagged basic needs, need satisfaction
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Reality Check: For the Fun of It
Are you serious about having fun? Or do you consider fun to be frivolous? Do you treat fun like dessert, saving it for after all the serious business has been handled? Then, if there’s time, maybe you’ll have the opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Needs
Tagged basic needs, fun, learning, need satisfaction
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Reality Check: The Need to be Free
Here in the “true north strong and free,” you might think that everybody understands freedom. According to Dr. Glasser’s choice theory, we all have some level of the need for freedom. We may all have the need, but there are … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom...
Tagged basic needs, examining wants, freedom, need satisfaction
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Reality Check: The Belonging Problem
The Choice Theory of Dr. Wm. Glasser suggests that we have five basic needs that motivate us to act. We may choose effective actions that create a satisfying life or we may choose ineffective actions that are counter-productive, even self-destructive. … Continue reading
Posted in Love & Belonging
Tagged basic needs, examining wants, happiness, need satisfaction
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Reality Check: Our Most Basic Needs
Are there more incidents of unhappiness now than ever before? The pandemic and the changes that accompanied it can certainly give that impression. There are plenty of stories. Some—about celebrities or strangers—appear in the media. But you may also be … Continue reading
Posted in Needs
Tagged basic needs, examining wants, happiness, hope, need satisfaction
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Reality Check: Is it Overwork? Or Discouragement?
If you’re feeling dissatisfied, can you put your finger on the cause? It might be harder than you’d think. For example, regardless of one’s stage in life, a common dissatisfaction is perceiving that one is overworked. Too much to do; … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged "should", discouragement, need satisfaction, responsibility, work
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Reality Check: May I Persuade You?
It would be difficult to ignore all of the persuasive messages that come into our lives, wouldn’t it? Many of those messages are focused on getting us to do something, often it’s to buy something. Marketing ads have a clear … Continue reading
Posted in Develop Understanding
Tagged basic needs, choosing influences, examining wants, need satisfaction
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