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		<title>INTELLECTUAL WELL-BEING (Driving change into the New Year)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LamarSmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actual change can be difficult for several reasons, but the good news is that we can redirect our choices at any time, January 1st or any other day of the year.  So, reflection on the process of change should be a continuous process.  

How do we thoughtfully choose our best course, on what do we focus our attention, how do we determine the allocation of our time and our money, how do we respond to things that happen to us?  Mastering these “how-to’s” will provide a huge payoff and it is not that complex.]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Financially at Year End</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holidays at year-end present several out-of-the-ordinary challenges in the financial area.  The question is not limited to the important issue of how much to spend on which gifts for various recipients; there is also the opportunity to spend extra on travel, dining out, entertaining, decorating, gift wrap, and special attire with accessories……just to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balance at Year End</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcinterchanges.com</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[new year's resolutions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing each day and week so that we are more productive and effective while a little less crazy and stressed is a great challenge for most of us. That challenge seems to be multiplied as the calendar pages turn in December. Maintaining balance between your well-being physically, intellectually, emotionally, financially, and spiritually seems almost impossible as we prepare and live through the Holiday Season and into the New Year.]]></description>
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		<title>Random Interviews on “Life Issues” from Penn Station, New York City, May 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/random-interviews-on-%e2%80%9clife-issues%e2%80%9d-from-penn-station-new-york-city-may-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LamarSmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On business in New York with a video camera and sound man in tow for another project, I was able to satisfy a life long curiosity.   I have long wondered if I could do “man on the street interviews.”
Focusing on topics related to time use, effectiveness, planning and personal growth, I sought comment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be warned, writing fiction is different</title>
		<link>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/be-warned-writing-fiction-is-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LamarSmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In college, the Air Force and 30 years in the corporate world I have written and edited many different types of papers from very short to very long and for every kind of purpose and audience one can imagine, but none of that experience prepared me for a work of fiction like the business parable There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamar On Getting Your Money&#8217;s Worth</title>
		<link>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/lamar-on-getting-your-moneys-worth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LamarSmith</dc:creator>
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Lamar Smith &#8211; Getting Your Money&#8217;s Worth from Lamar Smith on Vimeo.
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		<title>Lamar On Fast Track</title>
		<link>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/lamar-on-fast-track/</link>
		<comments>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/lamar-on-fast-track/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LamarSmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a clip of Anna Gilligan, from the Fox Business show Fast Track, speaking to Lamar about what it means to get to the corner office.
Lamar Smith on Fast Track from Lamar Smith on Vimeo.
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		<title>Crank up Your Chainsaw</title>
		<link>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/crank-up-your-chainsaw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/crank-up-your-chainsaw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LamarSmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the chainsaw was first developed, a salesman traveled through the great logging territories of the northwestern, so the story goes, selling one or two saws at each of the camps.  This was to create demand for greater sales on a future trip.  One month later he retraced his steps and sales were going through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a Whiff of Balance and Its Benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/getting-a-whiff-of-balance-and-its-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/getting-a-whiff-of-balance-and-its-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LamarSmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up until a few years ago, tobacco smoke was a constant in virtually every indoor space.  It hung in the air, permeated fabrics and porous building material and placed a “grey haze” on almost everything.  Even non-smoker’s homes did not escape because many more people smoked and did so wherever they went.  It was so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Common Denominator to All Your Relationships and Transactions</title>
		<link>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/the-common-denominator-to-all-your-relationships-and-transactions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/the-common-denominator-to-all-your-relationships-and-transactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LamarSmith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.improvingyourbalance.com/?p=286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A basic law of physics is that no matter where you go, you are there.  The one thing none of us can escape is our self.  That clear articulation of the obvious leads to at least two beneficial conclusions.  First, any time and effort we put into a program of personal growth is likely to [...]]]></description>
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