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	<title>Simple Truths &#187; Motivation</title>
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		<title>Health is a Leadership Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Returning blogger Di Chapman, founder of Quotepourri.com writes on a topic top of many agendas, health care.  Start your weekend off right with a motivating article from Di:
“Who you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you’re saying.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m reading through Mac Anderson’s book Charging the Human Battery, nodding with approval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Bounce Back&#8221; Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://blog.simpletruths.com/bounce-back</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, I heard someone talking about bouncing back.&#160; Though the challenge may get us down, we do not need to stay down!&#160; We can bounce back from difficulties, and come out of those experiences stronger and wiser than we were going into them.&#160;
Sasha Azevedo, an actress, athlete, and model, phrased it best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter as a Time Management Tool?</title>
		<link>http://blog.simpletruths.com/blumberg-tweet</link>
		<comments>http://blog.simpletruths.com/blumberg-tweet#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we welcome back John Blumberg, author of Good to the Core.  From his Front Porch Blog, he writes a thought provoking post on Twitter as a time management tool.  Did you just hear an oxymoron, or a different way to look at your Twitter account?  Read on to decide:

Someone is going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac&#8217;s Journal: Family</title>
		<link>http://blog.simpletruths.com/macs-journal-family</link>
		<comments>http://blog.simpletruths.com/macs-journal-family#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Redmond]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To the world, you may be just one person&#8230; but to one person, you might just be the world.&#8221;&#160;&#160;&#160;
Father&#8217;s Day is three days away.&#160; While I realize not everyone has a father figure in his or her life, I think those of us who do can point to the times when he has truly come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive Interview with John Blumberg</title>
		<link>http://blog.simpletruths.com/blumberg-interview</link>
		<comments>http://blog.simpletruths.com/blumberg-interview#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have a special entry for you.&#160; John Blumberg, author of Good to the Core, heard that we restarted our blog.&#160; So, in order to end our &#34;values&#34; week with a bang, John has agreed to record a special interview for you!&#160; Check out this exclusive interview with John, just for our Simple Truths [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac&#8217;s Journal: Banking Crisis?  Or Values Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://blog.simpletruths.com/ethics</link>
		<comments>http://blog.simpletruths.com/ethics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.simpletruths.com/?p=299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.&#8221; -Brian Tracy
Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars now flow to the banks that need bailouts.&#160; Not only does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do the Right Thing</title>
		<link>http://blog.simpletruths.com/do-the-right-thing</link>
		<comments>http://blog.simpletruths.com/do-the-right-thing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week I would like to devote some posts to honesty and integrity.&#160; It is such a difficult thing to do-choosing to do the right thing- when the consequence could be hurtful.&#160;
To kick off this series, I would like to share with you a video of Aaron Feuerstein&#8217;s company, Malden Mills, creator of the Polartek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogger: BJ Gallagher</title>
		<link>http://blog.simpletruths.com/bj-gallagher</link>
		<comments>http://blog.simpletruths.com/bj-gallagher#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[always through]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bj]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[positive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puerto rico]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.simpletruths.com/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Simple Truths Bloggers, I am proud to introduce BJ Gallagher, author of her new book THE BEST WAY OUT IS ALWAYS THROUGH for sale only on our website starting Tuesday. BJ agreed to write a special entry just for you, our blog audience!&#160; It is my honor to present her article:

I&#8217;m in New York this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac&#8217;s Journal: Persistence</title>
		<link>http://blog.simpletruths.com/persistence</link>
		<comments>http://blog.simpletruths.com/persistence#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mondays with Mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perseverance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[persistence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.simpletruths.com/?p=242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.&#160; Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.&#160; Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.&#34;
-Calvin Coolidge
Last year around this time, most reporters used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>212 Degrees: The Degree of Difference</title>
		<link>http://blog.simpletruths.com/the-degree-of-difference</link>
		<comments>http://blog.simpletruths.com/the-degree-of-difference#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[212]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;To get what we have never had, we must do what we have never done.&#34;
From the Simple Truths archives, I bring you the &#34;212&#34;: The Extra Degree video.  The concept behind the book is that a marginal degree of heat makes the difference between hot water and steam, much like life when a marginal [...]]]></description>
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