Taking Responsibility For The Choices We Make

Download or read book Taking Responsibility for the Choices We Make written by Leighann McCoy and published by Dayspring. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our culture has become one where we blame everyone else for the circumstances in our own lives. This book challenges the reader to take responsibility for where they are in life and how they get there.

Download or read book The Myth of Choice written by Kent Greenfield and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of choice is at the core of the American story. But what if choice is fake?Americans are fixated on the idea of choice. Our political theory is based on the consent of the governed. Our legal system is built upon the argument that people freely make choices and bear responsibility for them. And what slogan could better express the heart of our consumer culture than "Have it your way"?In this provocative book, Kent Greenfield poses unsettling questions about the choices we make. What if they are more constrained and limited than we like to think? If we have less free will than we realize, what are the implications for us as individuals and for our society? To uncover the answers, Greenfield taps into scholarship on topics ranging from brain science to economics, political theory to sociology. His discoveries—told through an entertaining array of news events, personal anecdotes, crime stories, and legal decisions—confirm that many factors, conscious and unconscious, limit our free will. Worse, by failing to perceive them we leave ourselves open to manipulation. But Greenfield offers useful suggestions to help us become better decision makers as individuals, and to ensure that in our laws and public policy we acknowledge the complexity of choice.

Download or read book How to Have That Difficult Conversation written by Henry Cloud and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of practical tips and how-tos, this book will help you make your relationships better, deepen your intimacy with people you care for, and cultivate more love, understanding, and respect between you and others. Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships and can solve important problems. They have discovered that uncomfortable situations can be avoided or resolved through direct conversation. But most of us don't know how to have difficult conversations, and we see confrontation as scary or adversarial. Authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend take the principles from their award-winning and bestselling book, Boundaries, and apply them to a variety of the most common difficult situations and relationships in order to: Show how healthy confrontation can improve relationships Present the essentials of a good boundary-setting conversation Provide tips on preparing for the conversation Show how to tell people what you want, stop bad behavior, and deal with counterattack Give actual examples of conversations to have with your spouse, your date, your kids, your coworker, your parents, and more! This book is a practical handbook on positive confrontation that will help you finally have that difficult conversation you've been avoiding. Includes a discussion guide.

Download or read book Stepping Up written by John Izzo and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to solving problems presents seven principles that enable individuals to be their own agents of change.

Download or read book The Choices We Make written by Robert T. Gardner Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choices We Make is a book that tells a compelling story about bad relationship choices that resulted in enormous consequences. This book emphasizes the importance of self-love, a key element to making good relationship choices. You will be provided with insight on "People Types that mean you no good and "Games People Play" that have nothing to do with love. There are tips and tools in the Relationship Lab to educate men and women on how to avoid bad relationships with the wrong people. This book intends to transform the way you think about the relationship choices you make.

Download or read book A Little SPOT of Responsibility written by Diane Alber and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every time you make a GOOD CHOICE your RESPONSIBILITY SPOT GROWS and it makes you feel more CONFIDENT and HAPPY! This story is about a little RESPONSIBILITY SPOT that shows you ways you can make GOOD CHOICES to GROW your RESPONSIBILITY SPOT. --

Download or read book The Choices We Make written by Robert "Sinti" Maahs and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Prisons in our country are dark places that can either transform a person into a monster or even a healer of the hurt and damaged, who live behind the high walls topped with razor wire and gun towers. It has been many years since I underwent my own personal transformation. It was a time when I often struggled finding workshops, or even materials to help me turn my life around. I made myself a promise to find some way to help others holding on to hope, not to struggle to find what they needed to make change happen in their own lives in the best way I could. Prison life can suck the hope from your soul if you let it. See, a long 38 years ago, I made a choice that was not only wrong, but also cost a person his life unnecessarily, and me the last 38 years of my own life locked away in a California prison. I live with this shame and regret every day, committed to being a better person, worthy of redemption. I was looking at life in prison, and I knew I could not continue to life a life of chaos, even though I lived in an environment full of chaos. Something had to change. It started with me. I watched many in prison struggle with their own process of changing, just as I had. Education gave rise to a field of knowledge that helped me understand how and why we make the choices we make. I wanted to reach out to the many that ask themselves this very question; “why do I make the choices I make?” In prison it is well understood that hurt people hurt others, while healed people heal others. I owe a debt that can never be repaid in full, yet. I know I must try. I owe this to those whose lives I have impacted by my past choices. Everyday, I do what I can to make a positive impact in the lives of others, whether through teach, writing books and designing programs, or simple conversation. It is no longer about me. It is about others who may be struggling in their journey through life. I found that when we have no understanding of our place in the world, or meaning in life, we struggle. We make faulty choices and we can make some mistakes in life’s journey that are very costly. Understanding Choice Theory can help us find some answers we need to turn it all around. I felt it was important to have a body of knowledge available to help all those who struggle in their own search for answers; another tool in your cognitive tool box to help you make your transformational process a reality, so that you can live your best possible life regardless of your situation. Take a moment and learn a little about how we can find that; “meaning in life’s journey,” while putting “Choice Theory” to work in our own life. You do not have to struggle to meet your needs in life. However, you do have to understand that your choices have consequences and affect more than just you. Why Buy? We live in times of great question and unrest. Societies around the world are asking themselves; “what is the meaning of my existence in life?” and “what choices do I have in my current journey through life?” While we struggle to satisfy those questions in a meaningful way, we are pressed with some hardcore challenges filled with chaotic messaging on what the future holds. We can only control how we choose to respond to any given situation by the attitude we take in life. Choice theory gives us a look into how we make the choices we make. If you want better outcomes in your life, understanding the Dynamics of Choice Theory can help you be your best possible self. Pickup the book and put some new tools into your cognitive toolbox. You have more to gain than you have to lose than you will ever know. 60