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	<title> &#187; Personal and Professional Growth</title>
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		<title>Multitasking &#8212; Worth It or Not?</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/07/multitasking-worth-it-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Management]]></category>
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Today I was scanning a twelve page document to email to someone who didn&#8217;t have a fax.  On page eleven I somehow hit the wrong button and exited out of the document.  I was unable to pull up the scanned pages again; obviously my work had been erased.  I had been culling through my book shelf and pulling out dated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Miracle Is You</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/07/the-miracle-is-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appreciating and respecting self]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-respect and self-awareness]]></category>

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The Miracle is You: Kute Blackson, courtesy of Youtube.com 5:38 min.
Related Posts:Women Leaders &#8211; Best Career Advice They&#8217;ve Been GivenStrategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate LandscapeCommitment to Excellence &#8211; Experimental Science &#8211; Female LaureateTribute to Women Past and PresentTeamwork &#8211; Headache or Welcome Support Process?]]></description>
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		<title>Your Power in Your Ups and Downs With Happiness</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/07/your-power-in-your-ups-and-downs-with-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Beliefs and Behaviors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[changing your beliefs and behaviors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[controlling thoughts and moods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self acceptance]]></category>

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I awoke this morning with my attention on one thing that wasn&#8217;t going smoothly and soon I found a whole bucket of issues to be unhappy about.  There aren&#8217;t many things to complain about in my life truthfully, when I come to look at it now, but in that moment, it was all I could see.   I couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit Week Can Be A Great Employee Motivator</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/06/spirit-week-can-be-a-great-employee-motivator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embarrassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee morale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increasing team spirit]]></category>

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This past Sunday I drove to my husband&#8217;s office with him and helped him decorate it in a theme of his choosing for his company&#8217;s Spirit Week &#8211; a time of the year in which the employees of his law firm have some team play time. 
We had fun removing a few extra chairs and creating a whole beach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s Your Focus When Bad Things Wake You Up?</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/06/wheres-your-focus-when-bad-things-wake-you-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[improving your focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inviting trouble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reawakening to needed change]]></category>

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Today I felt run down, but rather than work in a nap, I had a cup of coffee (mistake 1).  I felt awake, but uncomfortably jittery (I&#8217;m not a regular coffee consumer).  I&#8217;m in Mammoth with my husband for business and I&#8217;m working in the hotel room.  We have to stay another night but that hotel was booked, so I moved us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add-on to Kubler Grief List Brings Relief</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/06/add-on-to-kubler-grief-list-brings-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenges with change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth Kubler-Ross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss and grief with change]]></category>
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My husband&#8217;s Aunt just passed and we saw her the day before, small and feeble under the weight of the white hospital sheets.   It was her time and there was an odd peacefulness as part of it, that transcended our sorrow.
Death always provokes quiet reflection and an awareness of the vulnerability of life.  I find myself thinking about a strange array of nonsensical things, from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional Rollercoasters and How to Handle Them</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/05/emotional-rollercoasters-and-how-to-handle-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Beliefs and Behaviors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dealing with troubles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional rollercoaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[handling difficult situations]]></category>

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The past few weeks has been tough in first finding out my sister had cancer and yesterday waiting for the results of her surgery.  To our relief and gratitude she is now cancer free.  During this period, our family has heard from many other folks with illnesses.  It&#8217;s almost as if we&#8217;ve become a member of that club, albeit reluctantly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Ways To Take 5 Minutes of Glory</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/05/3-ways-to-take-5-minutes-of-glory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 19:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[applause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal acknowledgment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[receiving praise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-recognition]]></category>

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I used to have trouble receiving compliments.  For my 50th birthday, my husband through me a surprise party and all those who attended gave me verbal and written favorable nods.  It was quite an honoring experience.  I&#8217;ve had similar experiences with work, in companies and with clients.  It&#8217;s humbling, and yet you know what?  I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working with the Burden of a Crisis</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/04/working-with-the-burden-of-a-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Beliefs and Behaviors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dealing with crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[handling fear and anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewing hope and healing]]></category>
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It&#8217;s hard to even give words to your upset, and you&#8217;re not sure you want to.  It&#8217;s so private and yet the weight of your concerns is so present for you that it feels as if everyone can see something is going on with you anyway.  You get good at answering, &#8220;oh, everything&#8217;s fine,&#8221; when you know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Take Rejection Personally &#8211; Here&#8217;s How</title>
		<link>http://creatingatwill.com/blog/2010/04/dont-take-rejection-personally-heres-how/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal and Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positive Beliefs and Behaviors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal letp-downs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rejection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tools to handle upsets]]></category>

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You&#8217;ve been rejected.  That&#8217;s right &#8211; turned down, not picked, turned away, let go or left out. 
If you&#8217;re like me and someone tells you something hugely disappointing, you want to yell out, &#8220;That&#8217;s not fair!&#8221;  Afterall, why don&#8217;t they want to play with ME, right?!  You&#8217;re suddenly whisked back to your school days and picking teams [...]]]></description>
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