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Reality Check: Spinning Our Wheels
One of the rare Choice Theory-related books that I don’t have is entitled Stop Spinning Your Wheels. As I thought I might indulge in a gift to myself, I went browsing for it. That browsing reminded me that the idea … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged choosing thoughts, discouragement, persistence, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: Goals and the Posts That Define Them
The Reality Therapy approach, as structured by Dr. Robert Wubbolding, starts with a fundamental question: “What do you want?” For many, those wants include benefits for others. For example, I want career success for people I’ve worked with. There’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged examining wants, persistence, reality, self-evaluation
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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: What makes a difference?
Do you want to make a difference? When asked about their purpose or goals in life, many will answer with some variation of, “I want to make a difference and do something that matters.” Often, that wish is connected to … Continue reading
Posted in Satisfaction
Tagged choosing actions, helpful, need satisfaction, persistence
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Reality Check: To Grow Accountability
I have many good intentions. Perhaps you do, too! Those intentions include plans for what I will do for others as well as what I need or want to do for myself. They range from lofty to mundane; from developing … Continue reading
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Tagged choosing actions, dissatisfaction, helpful, persistence, self-evaluation
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Reality Check: Greater Expectations
I’d caught the tail end of a conversation about math scores and a possible connection with the practice of moving students along in grade level regardless of whether they’ve mastered skills. It’s possible that I misunderstood. I’m sure what I … Continue reading
Posted in Helping Others
Tagged learning, need satisfaction, persistence, power
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Reality Check: The Disillusioned Learner
Barb tried gardening last year for the first time. It was awesome! Barb was ecstatic with her beautiful tomatoes and huge cucumbers. Her marigolds flowered and her sunflowers were so very sunny. Barb was hooked. All winter, she said, “I … Continue reading
Posted in Learning
Tagged dissatisfaction, encouragement, frustration, learning, persistence
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Reality Check: Can you do this?
Do you consider yourself highly motivated? Does your motivation come naturally to you, or do you have to work at it? For some of us, motivation seems to require an occasional kick in the pants, so to speak, to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged "should", anxiety, choosing thoughts, persistence
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