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Reality Check: An Anxiety Alternative
If we choose to worry, there’s plenty to worry about. Thanks to the mixed blessing of access to information from all over the world, we can worry about things that we have absolutely no control over and that may never … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Perspective
Tagged anxiety, choosing actions, choosing thoughts, worry
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Reality Check: When you doubt yourself
While unjustified confidence can be perceived as arrogance, justifiable confidence is a positive quality. Self-doubt, for any of us, can result in a lack of enjoyment of our lives. An athlete who loses confidence can lose their enjoyment of the … Continue reading
Posted in Doing, Thinking, Feeling, Physiology
Tagged anxiety, confidence, total behaviour, worry
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Reality Check: Practice Makes Better
We get good at what we practice. Even if we never completely master a skill, the more we practice, the more we improve. Conversely, if we don’t practice, we won’t improve and may even lose what skill we had. In … Continue reading
Posted in Choosing Behaviour
Tagged anxiety, choosing actions, happiness, worry
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Reality Check: High Anxietying
Our language often suggests that we are the passive recipients of our feelings. When we say, “I’m down; I’m sad” or even, “I’m in love, I’m happy!” there’s an implication that feelings just happen. In choice theory language, however, instead … Continue reading
Posted in How it is sometimes
Tagged anxiety, making choices, worry
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Reality Check: Try a Different Stress Model?
Stress. Everybody’s had it. Yet some people seem to manage—or even thrive—in stressful environments, whereas others can barely cope. There are plenty of possible explanations for these differences: genetics, upbringing, experience, training, and so on. We don’t have control over … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, choosing thoughts, perception, worry
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Reality Check: The Worry-Weed Patch
Even if you’ve never gardened, you’ve probably noticed that a patch of bare ground doesn’t stay bare for long. Nature doesn’t like empty space. What fills that space? Weeds, of course. Lambs-quarters take up residence in the garden; plantain plants … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, total behaviour, worry
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Reality Check: Overcoming Shyness is an Employability Skill
In recent posts, I’ve suggested that the ability to get along with co-workers, bosses, and customers is a valuable employability skill. Unfortunately for some folks, shyness makes it difficult to get along. Have you ever perceived that the “sweet talkers” … Continue reading
Posted in Workplace
Tagged choosing actions, confidence, worry
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Reality Check: The Value of Perspective
Madison is afraid. As she understands it, polar bears are drowning, cities are flooding, our food is killing us, and artificially-intelligent appliances will become our masters. The world can be a frightening place, especially for a young person. Of course, … Continue reading
Posted in Perception & Reality
Tagged anxiety, choosing influences, worry
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Reality Check: Stewing on a Setback
If the word “stew” only brings to mind that tasty dish from a crockpot, you’re fortunate! For many, stewing means worrying, and it’s often over something completely out of one’s control. Everybody has setbacks, and it can be mighty difficult … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, unhappiness, worry
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