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    <title>New Tears [about Grievng--with commentary]</title>
    <link>/grief/new-tears-about-grievng-with-commentary--aid119420.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;New Tears [about Grieving]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it rains or shines&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Little does it matter so?\rDays, like tear drops〞&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Slip and slide, and go.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I sit looking out my window&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Little do I want to say〞?\rGoodbye and close my brain;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not f</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Dennis Siluk</author>
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    <title>Death of a Parent:  Saying Good-Bye to Mommy or Daddy</title>
    <link>/grief/death-of-a-parent-saying-good-bye-to-mommy-or-daddy-aid119219.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Coping with the death of a loved one is never easy, regardless of how old you are when that loss occurs.  For children who lose a parent, however, the effects can be devastating, indeed, and a plan will need to be put in place so that they can lea</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Diana L.M.I. Dawson</author>
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    <title>The Lesson of a Mother's Death</title>
    <link>/grief/the-lesson-of-a-mother-s-death-aid118833.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Dedicated to my mother, Florence&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;November 11, 1920 每 May 25, 2005&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Passing of the Torch&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She lies in peaceful repose on her back with her hands, one atop the other, gently resting on her tummy.  Those hands that loved to play t</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Lynn Moore</author>
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    <title>Why Don't We Talk About Anticipatory Grief?</title>
    <link>/grief/why-don-t-we-talk-about-anticipatory-grief--aid118700.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I know anticipatory grief - a feeling of loss before a death or dreaded event occurs - far too well.  My mother suffered from probable Alzheimer's disease and I was her caregiver for nine years.  As time passed she lost the ability to reason, trac</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Harriet Hodgson</author>
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    <title>Handicapped From Suicide</title>
    <link>/grief/handicapped-from-suicide-aid116858.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I am 23 years old.  I come from a large family.  I have 2 brothers (6 and 7), and 3 sisters (2months, 17, and 21).  We are a very close famly, but I am especially close with my 17 year old sister.  Like twins, with a very special bond.  For the mo</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Lindsay Blades</author>
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    <title>Sympathy Messages</title>
    <link>/grief/sympathy-messages-aid116114.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;The loss of a loved one. It is often difficult to find the right words to express your sympathy to someone during this time of sorrow. A floral tribute and supportive message can offer much support to those grieving such a loss. Here we list some</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Tenley McDonald</author>
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    <title>Do You Know Someone Who's Dying?</title>
    <link>/grief/do-you-know-someone-who-s-dying--aid115507.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Too many people are dying alone＃&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The dying are one of society's most unrecognized and under-served groups. As individuals near the end of life they are often ignored, discounted, misunderstood and forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are doing something abou</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Dwight Norwood</author>
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    <title>Dads, Life, and Death</title>
    <link>/grief/dads-life-and-death-aid115533.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;When he looked at me, it was clear my father wasn't sure who I was. And as I looked back at him, I wasn't sure who he was, either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My father had just endured two heart surgeries and 6 days in intensive care. He'd returned to the hospital whe</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Mark Brandenburg</author>
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    <title>Learning to Live Again</title>
    <link>/grief/learning-to-live-again-aid115077.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Overcoming death and beginning once again to live is the one thing that we never anticipate can happen after we have experienced death.  The truth is however, that whether we like it or not life continues on.  The decision that we need to make is</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Amanda Evans</author>
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    <title>Terrorism Worries: 10 Ways to Turn Fear into Hope</title>
    <link>/grief/terrorism-worries-10-ways-to-turn-fear-into-hope-aid114570.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;September 11th changed America and chances are it changed you.  Images of that tragic day pop into your mind without warning and you have a constant feeling of anxiety.  Awful questions come to mind as well.  Will the terrorists strike again?  Whe</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Harriet Hodgson</author>
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    <title>One Stray Tear</title>
    <link>/grief/one-stray-tear-aid113818.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;The delight lit my face as the couple turned the corner into the hallway where we stood in lively conversation.  I threw my arms open wide, ignored the cell phones plastered to their ears, greeted each of them, first the husband then the wife who</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Ridgely Goldsborough</author>
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    <title>Angelo Dies</title>
    <link>/grief/angelo-dies-aid113710.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Angelo C, was a good man that never did any harm. He died \ryesterday in the shower over a severe asthma attack. The \rentire school cried and prayed for their old friend Angelo. \rThey joined in a moment of silence at 2:55 pm to let Angelo \rknow</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Corrine Russo</author>
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    <title>Beyond A Mother's Nightmare To Radical Forgiveness</title>
    <link>/grief/beyond-a-mother-s-nightmare-to-radical-forgiveness-aid112956.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;It was a moment I will never forget.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On February 22, 2003, I was visiting with my son Brian Michael (&lt;a target=&quot;_new&quot; href=&quot;http://www.BrianMichaelGuthrie.com&quot;&gt;http://www.BrianMichaelGuthrie.com&lt;/a&gt;) at his home in North Carolina, where I ha</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Linda Miller</author>
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    <title>Grief Support: The Don＊ts</title>
    <link>/grief/grief-support-the-don_ts-aid110678.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;1)	Don＊t try to make the grieving person feel better. YOU CANNOT. For many grievers it only serves to make them feel guilty or worse. Grievers MUST experience the pain of grief for healing to ultimately occur.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2)	Don＊t tell the griever to gi</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Saundra L. Washington</author>
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    <title>Grief Support: The Do's</title>
    <link>/grief/grief-support-the-do-s-aid110683.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Helpers often ask questions such as: &quot;What should I do? What should I say? Am I doing the right thing? Did I do the wrong thing?&quot; Here are some suggestions for how to best help those in grief.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1)	Do give grievers the permission to grieve. Yo</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Saundra L. Washington</author>
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    <title>Innovation Management:  Trying Out New Ideas</title>
    <link>/innovation/innovation-management-trying-out-new-ideas-aid110579.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generati</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Kal Bishop</author>
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    <title>Innovation Management 每  Famous Failures!</title>
    <link>/innovation/innovation-management-_-famous-failures--aid110084.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generati</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Kal Bishop</author>
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    <title>Innovation Management 每 moving past the wall</title>
    <link>/innovation/innovation-management-_-moving-past-the-wall-aid110086.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generati</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Kal Bishop</author>
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    <title>You Can Help A Grieving Heart</title>
    <link>/grief/you-can-help-a-grieving-heart-aid109876.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Oh, we can talk about the best cold medications and if cherry cough syrup tastes better to kids than orange. We can recommend preschools and sneakers. But the hardest part of parenting is the least often discussed. The roughest aspect of being a p</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Alice Wisler</author>
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    <title>Innovation Management 每 predicting winners</title>
    <link>/innovation/innovation-management-_-predicting-winners-aid109857.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generati</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Kal Bishop</author>
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    <title>6 Steps to Super Mindpower</title>
    <link>/innovation/6-steps-to-super-mindpower-aid109212.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Ever hear ※You can＊t teach an old dog a new trick?§ Well that might be true for dogs, but it＊s NOT TRUE for humans! Today's research has proven your brain can continue to physically grow -- even into very advanced old age.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You might have als</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Jill Ammon-Wexler</author>
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    <title>Grief</title>
    <link>/grief/grief-aid108967.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I didn't know a heart could die&lt;br&gt;\rbefore it stopped beating.&lt;br&gt;\rI didn't know a life could cease&lt;br&gt;\rbefore it stopped breathing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know how devastation&lt;br&gt;\rcould wend a living soul&lt;br&gt;\rI didn't know how death could make&lt;br&gt; \</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Saundra L. Washington</author>
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    <title>Loss Involves Change - The Transformative Power of Loss and Change</title>
    <link>/grief/loss-involves-change-the-transformative-power-of-loss-and-change-aid107900.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;There are many experiences in life, which remind us that change is an inevitable part of living.   We then have to choose to either to resist this process or look for new ways of finding meaning in our lives.  Losing a loved one to homicide, for e</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Clare Mann</author>
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    <title>How Can I Transform Tragedy?</title>
    <link>/grief/how-can-i-transform-tragedy--aid92674.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;There is only one place where tragedy occurs, and that is in the mind. Tragedy may appear to you on the physical level, however, it is the enormous power of your mind that creates the pain and separation you feel, from Love, from God, from Life it</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Barbara Rose, Ph.D.</author>
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    <title>Afraid Of Dying?  Afraid Of Living!</title>
    <link>/grief/afraid-of-dying-afraid-of-living--aid75126.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Over the years, I've heard many people voice their concerns of death and dying.  It wasn't that they had any maladies that would cause them to die any time soon, but they were &quot;afraid of their own immortality.&quot;  The basic idea of death, or the pot</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Edward Toupin</author>
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    <title>How'd They Do That?</title>
    <link>/innovation/how-d-they-do-that--aid74941.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;How'd they do that?&quot; I asked myself time and time again in my youth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, I witnessed ordinary people performing extraordinary feats on countless occasions. I documented individuals in moments of crisis</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Keith Varnum</author>
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    <title>How To Heal Your Heart</title>
    <link>/grief/how-to-heal-your-heart-aid74818.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;We all experience severe heart break at some time in our lives. For many it happens in childhood or adolescence, the time when we are most vulnerable. A cold mother, an absent father, being different in any way from our peers and ostracized for it</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Carna Zacharias</author>
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    <title>Improve Your Business Dealings with Improvisation</title>
    <link>/innovation/improve-your-business-dealings-with-improvisation-aid74831.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;&quot;Nothing is accidental ... use everything.&quot; -- Keith Johnstone&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even the best-laid plans, the proverb goes, go oft astray. And by learning how to improvise like actors or jazz musicians, corporate types can better adapt to the always changing</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Terrill Fischer</author>
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    <title>Present Moment Awareness: Lessons From My Dog</title>
    <link>/grief/present-moment-awareness-lessons-from-my-dog-aid57943.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I＊ve always waited for the perfect moment to be happy: As though time were a flower waiting to bloom. My scruffy puppy-happy senior dog knows better. Watching his tail wag as he stands in the middle of a mud puddle, I now understand that happiness</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Galina Pembroke</author>
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    <title>Penny For Your Thoughts?</title>
    <link>/innovation/penny-for-your-thoughts--aid56373.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Every artifact, every tool, everything ever designed or created by human beings for their own need, comfort, luxury, amusement or advancement began as an idea, a concept＃a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All wealth had its origins in thought. It is thought that cr</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Leslie Fieger</author>
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    <title>In the Blink of an Eye</title>
    <link>/grief/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-aid55458.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Today＊s Quote: ※My house is burned down, but I can see the sky.&quot; Sally Reed, cancer survivor&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thirty five years ago this weekend, my father died. Killed when the Mack Truck Lear jet he was traveling on crashed into Lake Michigan, he died in t</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Carolina Fernandez</author>
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    <title> Finding Life's Candles for Dark Moments</title>
    <link>/grief/finding-life-s-candles-for-dark-moments-aid54380.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Tragedy doesn＊t make an appointment. It attacks! A terrifying surprise that explodes in the midst of a family. Tragedy brings with it multiple consequences as well＃financial disaster, depression, guilt and blame. Devastating fallout! Marriages fal</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Ana Tampanna</author>
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    <title>Dealing With Grief and Loss - How to Mend a Broken Heart</title>
    <link>/grief/dealing-with-grief-and-loss-how-to-mend-a-broken-heart-aid54249.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;What is it about Grief &amp; Loss that upsets us so much?  Is it the heavy duty emoting that we have to do to get through our suffering?  Is it the fear we have about opening ourselves to all this pain?  Because, let＊s face it, it＊s hard down there, i</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Maurice Turmel</author>
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    <title>Seeking Initiative and Innovation? Reward Failure!</title>
    <link>/innovation/seeking-initiative-and-innovation-reward-failure--aid53341.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Based on Proprietary Research&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;If you want to increase initiative and innovation, you have to encourage and embrace failure. A culture that punishes less-than-ideal risk-related outcomes will stifle both initiative and innovation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pre</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Jim McCormick</author>
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    <title>Improve Your Small Talk - Gain Big Dividends!</title>
    <link>/innovation/improve-your-small-talk-gain-big-dividends--aid52660.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Do you hate to make small talk?  If so, you have lots of company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may find small talk irritating, predictable, mind-numbingly boring.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet, learning to play the small talk game can have lots of good benefits.  You will have a much b</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Royane Real</author>
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    <title>How to Turn Grief into Joy</title>
    <link>/grief/how-to-turn-grief-into-joy-aid52441.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I was with my daddy when he died. Excuse me, I was with my daddy when his spirit left his body. I drove him to the emergency room because he was having chest pains. He said that they weren＊t too bad, and his color was good. He was still walking.&lt;/</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>RobinRenee Bridges</author>
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    <title>Life 每 The Teacher</title>
    <link>/innovation/life-_-the-teacher-aid52276.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;You＊ve probably heard the phrase &quot;repetition is the mother of learning&quot; well apparently it＊s also the mother of teaching. Often it seems, Life 每 The Teacher uses the tool of repetition to imprint into our brains the lessons it＊s needing to impart</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Clyde Dennis</author>
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    <title>Harness the Power of Skill Sets and Mindsets</title>
    <link>/innovation/harness-the-power-of-skill-sets-and-mindsets-aid51211.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;When you have a problem, sometimes you need a new skill or\rskill set to deal with it. That was an epiphany generated\rfrom listening to a speaker the other day. Everything seemed\rso clear in that moment. Yes, it made sense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>David Snape</author>
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    <title>The 99 Percent Rule</title>
    <link>/innovation/the-99-percent-rule-aid50721.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;It's Friday night, you're sitting at a restaurant, and as your meal arrives, the server says, &quot;Now, don't touch that plate. It's hot.&quot; What's the first thing you do?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, 99% of the time you're going to touch that plate, right?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I call</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Greg Reid</author>
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    <title>Perfectionism - The Dangerous Trap!</title>
    <link>/innovation/perfectionism-the-dangerous-trap--aid50076.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Just when I have something figured out, along comes another how-to-article telling me how to be or do something better or even change my entire life. No matter where I turn, I am constantly reminded that I am not good enough in more ways than one.</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Allie Ochs</author>
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    <title>Cultivate a Friendship with Death</title>
    <link>/grief/cultivate-a-friendship-with-death-aid49935.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why We Fear Death&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.&quot; - Bacon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There may be a thousand reasons why we fear death, but most of all we fear death because we fear the unknown, and death is an unknown entity to most</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Tim Ong</author>
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    <title>Sympathy Flowers</title>
    <link>/grief/sympathy-flowers-aid49387.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Sending a floral tribute is a very appropriate way of expressing sympathy to a family who has experienced the loss of a loved one. Flowers express a feeling of life and beauty and offer much comfort to the family. A floral tribute can either be se</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Tenley McDonald</author>
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    <title>Understanding Grief and Loss in Times of War and Disaster</title>
    <link>/grief/understanding-grief-and-loss-in-times-of-war-and-disaster-aid49321.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;There are many different kinds of losses we can experience in our lives. Indeed, loss in human beings has its beginnings in the birth process that separates the infant from the comfort and security of the mother＊s womb into a world where survival</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Jan Maizler</author>
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    <title>How to Turn Nothing Into Something</title>
    <link>/innovation/how-to-turn-nothing-into-something-aid49181.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Excerpted from the Jim Rohn Weekend Seminar-Excelling in the New Millennium)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever wondered how to turn nothing into something?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, in order to turn nothing into something, you've got to start with some ideas and imagination</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Jim Rohn</author>
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    <title>Creating Opportunity</title>
    <link>/innovation/creating-opportunity-aid49192.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising pe</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Jim Rohn</author>
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    <title>Let the Seeds Grow</title>
    <link>/innovation/let-the-seeds-grow-aid48931.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;The thought that every great thing that has ever happened, been spoken or invented began first with a single idea is not a new one, but one I don't think many people have taken to heart.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find that many people are constantly getting ideas.</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Chris Widener</author>
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    <title>Can We Change People?</title>
    <link>/innovation/can-we-change-people--aid48707.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;There was a class of &quot;challenged&quot; children and many teachers were brought in over time but each one ended up quitting in frustration. Finally, a teacher was brought in and a miracle happened. That class of students ended up becoming a group of hap</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Marilyn Jenett</author>
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    <title>Moving Beyond Grief and Loss</title>
    <link>/grief/moving-beyond-grief-and-loss-aid48153.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;In my work as a coach and therapist, I have seen many clients dealing with losses of all kinds〞loss of loved ones through death and divorce, for instance. These experiences are difficult for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stages of Recovery from Loss&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Garrett Coan</author>
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    <title>One Woman's Way of Dealing With Grief</title>
    <link>/grief/one-woman-s-way-of-dealing-with-grief-aid47532.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;All of us at one time or another have felt grief: perhaps over a lost job, lost love, or the most heartbreaking, the death of someone we loved dearly.  Each of us goes about the task of grieving in our own distinct way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When we lose a loved</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Beth Densmore</author>
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    <title>How To Write A Eulogy</title>
    <link>/grief/how-to-write-a-eulogy-aid47541.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Remembering someone special in a personal way can be healing for everyone concerned, for a eulogy is a deeply personal way of saying goodbye. The key word is life, and you've been given the opportunity to celebrate a loved one's life in the indivi</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Susanna Duffy</author>
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    <title>Seeing Problems From Their Creative Side</title>
    <link>/creativity/seeing-problems-from-their-creative-side-aid47303.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Did you know that winning actually puts less wear and tear on the body than worrying? And did you know that you could worry yourself sick to the point that you'll end up in a hospital bed? And that, depending on the severity of the problem, when i</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Etienne Gibbs</author>
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    <title>Terminal Illness- Death and Grief</title>
    <link>/grief/terminal-illness-death-and-grief-aid47244.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;No one likes to think about illness and death, when we are well, we feel invincible and there is nothing that can prepare us for the shock and devastation of a terminal diagnosis.  The knowledge that we can no longer take our lives or the lives we</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Lorraine Kember</author>
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    <title>Five Basic Steps to Benefit from Your Creativity</title>
    <link>/creativity/five-basic-steps-to-benefit-from-your-creativity-aid46237.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;The ability to exercise your creativity is even more important for you than you probably think. Why? First, your creativity tremendously contributes to your self-actualization, which is essential for you to feel satisfied with your life and be hap</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Nicholas Kabarow</author>
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    <title>Befriend Your Budget, This Yuletide and Always</title>
    <link>/innovation/befriend-your-budget-this-yuletide-and-always-aid46123.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;It is that time of year again. Yuletide＃Christmas in the air. Nostalgia, goose pimples and casting off all financial discipline. It was originally meant to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Joy to the world, and good will to all men＃&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Th</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Usiere Uko</author>
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    <title>Three Ways Journaling Can Boost Your Creativity and Your Business</title>
    <link>/creativity/three-ways-journaling-can-boost-your-creativity-and-your-business-aid45880.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I have a friend who has struggled with her creativity for a \rlong time. She's extremely uncomfortable thinking of herself \ras &quot;creative.&quot; We've been working together on it, and making \rprogress. One of the tools that's really helped her has bee</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Michele Pariza Wacek</author>
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    <title>Business Ideas 每 Need a New Idea? Try Changing Your Perspective</title>
    <link>/innovation/business-ideas-_-need-a-new-idea-try-changing-your-perspective-aid45900.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;One definition of creativity states that creative people look at \rthe same thing everyone else does, yet they see something \rno one else does.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But even creative people (which includes all of you, of \rcourse) can run into roadblocks every</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Michele Pariza Wacek</author>
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    <title>How To Increase Creativity... Set Deadlines!</title>
    <link>/creativity/how-to-increase-creativity-set-deadlines--aid45712.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Deadlines are something all of us face from time to time. \rWe face deadlines whenever we set even a small goal and \rcommit to accomplish it...  that's when deadlines becomes \rimportant and valuable to us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is a deadline so important?..</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Bill Parks</author>
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    <title>Accelerate Your Learning</title>
    <link>/innovation/accelerate-your-learning-aid45717.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Although you may not currently be a student, learning is a life long process.  Perhaps you need to learn something new for your job, or you would like to learn a new language before you take a vacation abroad, or you want to ※brush up§ on math so</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Lorna Minewiser</author>
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    <title>Imagination</title>
    <link>/innovation/imagination-aid45537.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Imagination is the unreal, real state of mind, where all things are experienced as real. Imagination is powerful and is an intermediary step between thought and word. Thoughts are experienced in the imagination before they are manifested into phys</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Roy Klienwachter</author>
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    <title>I Just Want to be Free - I Just Want to be Me!</title>
    <link>/innovation/i-just-want-to-be-free-i-just-want-to-be-me--aid45064.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;It was a sunny Saturday in April 2003 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The Carolina-blue sky seemed to kiss the wavy waters as the gentle wind embraced the beach. After enjoying the beach for a while with my 16-year old daughter and husband, one b</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Audrina J. Bunton</author>
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    <title>3 Clever Creative Strategies!</title>
    <link>/creativity/3-clever-creative-strategies--aid43789.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I've got a confession to make...  there are many ways\rleaders can be more creative, innovative and ingenious than\rare presented in this article.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It does not matter if you desire to be a marketing,\rentrepreneurial or organizational leader,</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Bill Thomas</author>
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    <title>Riches Through Creative Thinking!</title>
    <link>/creativity/riches-through-creative-thinking--aid43098.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;When solving problems after you have exhausted the normal means of coming up with the solution, think in terms of unorthodox methods.  Vary your thinking and try to solve the problems by creating something completely new and irrelevant.  Come into</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Julia Tang</author>
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    <title>Top Ten Ways To Jump-Start Your Creativity</title>
    <link>/creativity/top-ten-ways-to-jump-start-your-creativity-aid42321.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 - Take A Tour of the Great Outdoors\r&lt;hr&gt;\r&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Consider a hike in the mountains, a stroll beside the river, a run along the beach, a jog through the park or a walk around the city.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2 - Soak Up Your Surroundings</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Danielle Hollister</author>
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    <title>31 Ways to Get An Extra Hour Out of Each Day</title>
    <link>/time-management/31-ways-to-get-an-extra-hour-out-of-each-day-aid41918.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;How can you get an extra hour out of each day? For many small business owners this is a daily challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I myself have often wished that there were 27 hours in the day. I＊ll even settle for 25.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are some tips to help you squeeze th</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Time Management</category>
    <author>DeAnna Spencer</author>
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    <title>Break An Egg For Creativity</title>
    <link>/creativity/break-an-egg-for-creativity-aid41795.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;In 1420, the dignitaries of Florence held a competition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They offered the enormous prize of 200 gold florins to the architect whose genius could span the unfinished dome of the Florence Cathedral.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was a great challenge. Even the o</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Tony Papajohn</author>
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    <title>Men and Grief</title>
    <link>/grief/men-and-grief-aid41577.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Men grieve differently from women. Our cultural roles make it difficult for men to look for support, and harder again to accept it. Men are so often silent, solitary mourners who immerse themselves in activity and private, symbolic rituals. They f</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Grief</category>
    <author>Susanna Duffy</author>
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    <title>Time Mastery vs. Time Management - Knowing the Difference</title>
    <link>/time-management/time-mastery-vs-time-management-knowing-the-difference-aid41343.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;How much time do you spend on Mastering Your Time?? I don＊t mean managing time.? There is quite a difference between managing and mastering your use of time.? The goal of managing your time is to be more efficient, to squeeze more productivity out</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Time Management</category>
    <author>Judith Schwader</author>
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    <title>Color Your Life</title>
    <link>/innovation/color-your-life-aid41352.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Have you ever arrived at place in your career and wondered how you got there?  Have you found yourself stuck, not liking your job, yet not seeing how you can change after investing 15 years at it.\rLet's take a different perspective and see if you</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Sue Trumpfheller</author>
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    <title>Starving for Intimacy</title>
    <link>/innovation/starving-for-intimacy-aid41354.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Some are seeking love in a bottle.  Others look for it on the streets and many are trying to find it in their food.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of our food is grown on acres of land, sprayed by airplanes, cut by machines, moved by trucks or boats to plants automat</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Sue Trumpfheller</author>
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    <title>Peace Alliance vs. Fighting a Battle</title>
    <link>/innovation/peace-alliance-vs-fighting-a-battle-aid41355.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;We read in the press about the &quot;War on Drugs&quot; and the &quot;Battle of the Bulge&quot;.  Television tells us to fight the flu, legal battles or the war in Haiti.  Our doctors tell us we are fighting cancer or in a battle with obesity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These messages le</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Sue Trumpfheller</author>
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    <title>Unlock Your Creative Secret Weapon</title>
    <link>/creativity/unlock-your-creative-secret-weapon-aid41076.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;It seems like this week a ton of people have been asking me how they can \rbecome more creative. I even had one client jokingly accuse me of being in \rcahoots with the Devil in trade for my creativity. &quot;Where do you get all of your \rideas?&quot; he a</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Ricky Brandon</author>
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    <title>Is the Goal to Reach the Goal?</title>
    <link>/time-management/is-the-goal-to-reach-the-goal--aid40870.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;In this fast and crazy world, we want to multi-task at every given moment. After all, how else can we accomplish all that needs to be done in only 24 hours? We＊ve been taught that if we reach all of our goals in a day, week, month, or year, we are</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Time Management</category>
    <author>Marion Franklin</author>
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    <title>Doing Things We Dread</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;As I sit here in front of the computer I am breaking through on something that I have been tolerating for weeks now＃ actually sitting down to write this newsletter.&lt;SPAN style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;? &lt;/</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Time Management</category>
    <author>Roger DeWitt</author>
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    <title>12 Ways To Boost Your Creativity At Work</title>
    <link>/creativity/12-ways-to-boost-your-creativity-at-work-aid40595.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;As workplaces continue to rightsize and downsize, we all find ourselves doing more with less. How do we stay ahead of the workload while staying sane?  The key is to put your creativity to work for you so you can do more with less and shine like n</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Cheryl Lynch Simpson</author>
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    <title>Telling It Like It Is (Or Can Be)</title>
    <link>/creativity/telling-it-like-it-is-or-can-be--aid40128.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;When you hear, &quot;tell me a story,&quot; does your mind suddenly go blank? \rDon't panic.  The good news is, you're already a natural storyteller! \rSurprised? You shouldn't be. It's built right into our genetic code. Human \rbeings are a storytelling sp</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Nancy Binzen</author>
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    <title>7 Techniques to Supercharge your Creativity and Solve your Problems</title>
    <link>/creativity/7-techniques-to-supercharge-your-creativity-and-solve-your-problems-aid39976.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Do you ever encounter problems, challenges or obstacles in your business? If you answered 'no,' then you can stop reading and continue to rake in the fortune you must be making. For the rest of us, the answer of course is 'yes.'&lt;/P&gt;\r &lt;P&gt;For the</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Avish Parashar</author>
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    <title>Balancing Your Work, Family and Social Life</title>
    <link>/time-management/balancing-your-work-family-and-social-life-aid40017.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;B style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;Balancing Your Work, Family and Social Life&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = &quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:o</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Time Management</category>
    <author>Gene Griessman, Ph.D.</author>
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    <title>The Hidden Superpowers Of Your Mind</title>
    <link>/innovation/the-hidden-superpowers-of-your-mind-aid39940.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;The mind is an infinite wonder.? It has the fantastic ability to &lt;BR&gt;transmute your desires into their physical counterparts.? You can &lt;BR&gt;do anything that your mind can conceive, as long as you have the &lt;BR&gt;belief and will power to back it up. &lt;/</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Michael Lee</author>
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    <title>Find the Artist Within</title>
    <link>/creativity/find-the-artist-within-aid39819.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Can anyone be an artist? &lt;/P&gt;\r &lt;P&gt;People admiring my work often say, ※I could never do that!§ I say, ※Yes, you can!§ &lt;/P&gt;\r &lt;P&gt;Eight years ago, during a very difficult time in my career in finance (Downsizings, layoffs 每 let＊s not talk about it</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Eileen Bergen</author>
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    <title>Why Do We Need Creativity?</title>
    <link>/creativity/why-do-we-need-creativity--aid39834.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Creativity is central to the management of our individual lives, but in modern times few people are able to access this as a resource. Alan Watts writes in The Wisdom of Insecurity:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Simon Mitchell</author>
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    <title>Schedule Time for Interruption</title>
    <link>/time-management/schedule-time-for-interruption-aid39688.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;One of the most challenging situations people face when planning their day is how to stick to their schedule when they are constantly being interrupted.?? Just when your activities are organized, someone else＊s emergency seems to get in the way.?</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Time Management</category>
    <author>Eric Plantenberg</author>
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    <title>Find The Time -- Before It's Too Late!</title>
    <link>/time-management/find-the-time-before-it-s-too-late--aid39711.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;People always seem to be in such a hurry, everywhere I go.? &lt;/P&gt;\r &lt;P&gt;Always rushing to get to the next thing, as if someone is holding a stopwatch over their head, timing them to the second.&lt;/P&gt;\r &lt;P&gt;When I lived downtown I expected it, but her</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
    <category>Time Management</category>
    <author>Sylvie Minson</author>
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    <title>Set Yourself Up for Success!</title>
    <link>/innovation/set-yourself-up-for-success--aid39630.htm</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;P align=justify&gt;&lt;FONT lang=0 face=Verdana size=2 FAMILY=&quot;SANSSERIF&quot; PTSIZE=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Set Yourself Up For Success!&lt;IMG height=1160 src=&quot;http://www.franbriggs.com/spacer.jpg&quot; width=10 align=right border=0&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;~ By Fran Briggs &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;He</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
    <category>Innovation</category>
    <author>Fran Briggs</author>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;95 percent of what we know about the brain, we have learned in the last 20 years. So, your beliefs about creativity were probably shaped by faulty information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For instance, many believe that only special, talented people are creative 每 and</description>
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    <title>Time Management:  Setting up your Schedule for Success</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Would you describe yourself as extremely busy? Do you often feel tired and\rstressed out? Sometimes our ambition is our worst enemy. Many of us with big\rgoals try to do way too much. We spread ourselves a mile wide and an inch deep.\rWe are invol</description>
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    <title>Living Life In A Time Starved World</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I saw an advertisement for a time management booklet: &quot;Shorter deadlines, competing priorities, endless meetings, interruptions and even higher quality expectations are just some of today's time challenges. And yet the number of hours in</description>
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    <title>The Ultimate Time Management Tips: 5 Steps To Reaching Your Goals With Minimum W</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Would you like to know how to get 10 times more done in a day than most people do in a week, with less work?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then listen closely. You're about to discover the ONE time management and productivity secret that really works.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This little t</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
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    <author>Martin Franzen</author>
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    <title>Taking Time Off For Your Business</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;As a business owner, wouldn't it be great if you could take time off whenever you needed to? Unfortunately, most small business owners worry that the business will fall apart if they're not there to mind the store.  Too often, they simply lack the</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
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    <author>Wendy Y Bailey</author>
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    <title>The Kaizen of Goal Setting</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;There is an old way of goal setting and a new way of goal setting!\rThe old way of goal-setting involved setting yor goals, preparing a list of sub-goals, and then carefully checking them off one after another (as and when they were being accompli</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
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    <title>7 Quick And Easy Steps To Manage Your Time More Effectively</title>
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    <description>The internet is one of those things in life that borders on the verge of a good versus evil battle. It can be the greatest money making tool in existence, or the most malicious time waster. When people venture into the business of internet marketing,</description>
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    <author>Jason Tarasi</author>
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    <title>From Basics To Mastery</title>
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    <description>For all of us, emotional intelligence encompasses five basic areas of mastery. They are: &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - Knowing your feelings and using them to make life decisions you can live with. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; - Being able to manage your emotional life witho</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
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    <author>Kerri Salls</author>
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    <title>The 3 P?＊s:  Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis</title>
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    <description>Do you set your standards high, but always feel like you've failed? Learn about the 3 &quot;P's&quot; and end the vicious cycle that keeps you stuck and ineffective.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;b&gt;The Vicious Cycle&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Perfectionism, procrastination, and paralysis ?</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
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    <author>Gina J. Hiatt, PhD</author>
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    <title>Three Key Elements To Improving Leadership</title>
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    <description>Great leadership is the key to success. Great communication is the key to great leadership. Think of any great leader in modern time: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr, and John F. Kennedy come to mind immediately. They were powerful leaders because the</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
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    <author>Kerri Salls</author>
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    <title>To Reach Your Potential, Think In Terms Of Improvement</title>
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    <description>Based on John Maxwell's The Success Journey. Here are 10 Principles to becoming a dedicated self- developer. I'll be reflecting on this as I take a break this week. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 1. Chose a Life of Growth -- When you sincerely dedicate yourself to</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
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    <author>Kerri Salls</author>
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    <title>3 Magic Bedtime Questions</title>
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    <description>For many people, life zooms past once they reach their working age. Everyday, it's the same flash routine of waking up, going to work, coming back from work, and sleeping. It's no wonder why you'll ask yourself, &quot;How did I get old so fast? Where did</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-23</pubDate>
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    <author>Lance Ong</author>
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    <description>Transformational Counseling is about assisting another to transform his life. Transforming ones life is not about changing it. While life is much about doing differently, the genesis of the transformation is about a person altering or transforming hi</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Creativity</category>
    <author>Dr Harry Henshaw</author>
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    <title>THE CONVERSATION OF RECOVERY</title>
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    <description>Transformational Counseling is all about assisting another human being to live a life that they love and to live it powerfully. Transformational Counseling is about creating a space for others to learn how to transform their lives, to live a life dif</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-10</pubDate>
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    <author>Dr Harry Henshaw</author>
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    <description>This week I?＊ve had a lot of discussions with people about Mastermind Groups. All large corporations have a Board of Directors to be sure the company stays true to their mission, hit their numbers and fulfill their responsibility to stockholders. Sma</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
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    <author>Kerri Salls</author>
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    <title>Attitude Determines Altitude</title>
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    <description>Your attitude determines your altitude ?每 in business and in life. You can?＊t change someone else?＊s attitude for them. But this powerful adage is a great reminder that you can put in front of anyone who needs an attitude adjustment. I want to talk a</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-27</pubDate>
    <category>Leadership</category>
    <author>Kerri Salls</author>
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    <title>I Just Don?＊t Have Enough Time - The Science of Homeostasis Says You Do</title>
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    <description>Homeostasis is a relatively new and obscure science. It is the study of the effect of time on man and on other living creatures. It is also the study of our perception and response to time. Some of the latest discoveries in this realm of science may</description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-18</pubDate>
    <category>Time Management</category>
    <author>Rev. Michael Bresciani</author>
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