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Reality Check: Choosing to Find Joy in the Process
For a little over a year, I’ve had an orchid sitting on my table. It’s a tiny plant in a tiny purple pot. When it was given to me, it was in full bloom. The blooms lasted for what seemed … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing thoughts, happiness, perception
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Reality Check: The Happiness Benefit
Does happiness benefit happy people? Or is it the benefits that happy people have that cause their happiness? It’s the happiness version of the chicken and egg question; which comes first: the happiness or the benefits? For example, a happy … Continue reading
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Tagged "should", gratitude, happiness, perception
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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: Look Back, What Do You See?
As we approach the end of another year, many of us like to take stock. Part of taking stock involves looking back over the past year or over many past years, to assess where we’ve been and where we are … Continue reading
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Tagged discouragement, encouragement, gratitude, perception
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Reality Check: Feelings for the Future
Imagine the future. Maybe your daydreams are happy ones—winning the lottery, lazing on sandy beaches surrounded by loving friends and family. It’s a future with happiness, health, and good will. Or perhaps the future that springs to mind is filled … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, choosing thoughts, perception, reality, worry
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Reality Check: Fear and the Unknown
If you’ve ever had a serious medical issue, then it’s safe to say you have experienced fear. That fear may be about unknowns: How will this turn out? Will I be ok? When I was catching up with Sara some … Continue reading
Posted in Control and Choice
Tagged perception, total behaviour, worry
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Reality Check: Same Reality, Different Perspectives
Within my circle of friends and acquaintances, I hear more and more folks say, “I don’t listen to the news anymore.” Considering that we live in a time when news from all over is readily available, the decision to tune … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing influences, choosing thoughts, helpful, perception
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Reality Check: Your Discouragement Antidote Kit
Does discouragement have a colour? If so, is it grey? How about discouraging weather? Rain, perhaps? When discouraged, does it seem like there’s a rainy, grey, discouraged filter over everything? For example, let’s say we feel happy and in control. … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing influences, discouragement, encouragement, perception
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Reality Check: The Stories of our Scars
If you’ve spent much time at all on this earth, you probably have a few scars to show for it. Some people view their scars as embarrassing. They agonize over them, and buy not-so-magical potions in efforts to get rid … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, choosing thoughts, perception, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: Our Own Reflections
After he’d spent half an hour digging in the lawn and dining on bugs and worms, the young raccoon came prancing up to the patio door. Whoa! What was that? He stopped short; backed away. Tilted his head. Backed up … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, perception, reality
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