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		<title>Taking control.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of this things I&#8217;ve learned from last year&#8217;s sabbatical is the need to take the reins. I knew this when I started the sabbatical, actually &#8211; that I was letting my business drive me, instead of the other way around. I spent the year trying to figure out how to make it work, and more often than not, I cam up blank. it&#8217;s an odd feeling &#8211; floundering. Which is how I often feel. [...]


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		<title>Organizational Skills II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I posted a lengthy intro in my process of organization. I went a little into how I came to the conclusions I did about the subject, and why the articles/books/etc. I found didn&#8217;t seem to help me much. In today&#8217;s post, I&#8217;m going to tell you what I did with those conclusions. It&#8217;s actually pretty simple: I had a lot of stuff I needed to get organized. I wanted a simple system that would [...]


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		<title>Organizational Skills.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my big failures is my organizational skills. Back when I started my sabbatical (and all during it) it was something mentioned a lot: how I wanted to improve that aspect of my life. For the entire year, I would read every blog post I could find on how to get organized; how to become zen-like in the organizational system, how good it was if I were, ways to manage and/or accomplish it, even [...]


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		<title>Sometimes we reinvent the wheel.</title>
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		<comments>http://brassblogs.com/business/sometimes-we-reinvent-the-wheel#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think every &#8220;renewal process&#8221; goes through this (at least, I hope so&#8230;), where the renewer believes they have it all figured out, and before they even get started, they run into some kind of epiphany, and they get set back to square one. The thing is, there&#8217;s a difference between getting sent back to square one because of a setback, and being sent back because you somehow saw that clear line of vision for [...]


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		<title>&#8230;like a fish needs a bicycle</title>
		<link>http://brassblogs.com/business/like-a-fish-needs-a-bicycle</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow &#8211; 9 months (?!?) into my sabbatical, and I&#8217;ve finally made some hard decisions. I have to say, although I felt a little guilty about taking a sabbatical, I feel like it was a really good decision. As hard-headed as I am, though, it took a while to get some basics sorted. But I will put out there the things I&#8217;ve learned about myself (some of which I&#8217;ve mentioned before), because &#8211; as usual [...]


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		<title>Deciding to Stay: 5 Signs You Should Keep It Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a counter-balance to yesterday&#8217;s post, I&#8217;m offering up 7 reasons you should keep going at it, and truck ahead. If you were all gung-ho about my post yesterday, I apologize, because I&#8217;m laying out the reasons (some of which I&#8217;m currently pondering) why you should stay and tough it out! 1. Avoid the knee-jerk reaction. Sometimes, the idea of quitting is brought on by some recent event &#8211; something stressful happened with a client [...]


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		<title>Deciding to quit: 7 Signs You Should Give It Up</title>
		<link>http://brassblogs.com/business/deciding-to-quit-7-signs-you-should-give-it-up</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will admit, for a couple of months now, this sabbatical has made me think that the best thing for me right now is to give it up. It&#8217;s something I haven&#8217;t wanted to mention for fear of upsetting a few people, but I think it&#8217;s time I do. (And I tell ya, it&#8217;s such a relief to let that out in the open, as well.) I hate the very thought of &#8220;quitting.&#8221; I&#8217;m not [...]


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		<title>I&#8217;m halfway through it, and disappointed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, June 6th, and I&#8217;m roughly halfway through my sabbatical &#8211; and quite disappointed in my progress thus far. I have managed to fall back into the old habits that I&#8217;ve been trying to change, and I have not yet successfully managed to complete any of the goals I set for myself. Wow, I didn&#8217;t realize how hard it would be to admit that. I have allowed things to get in my way. [...]


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		<title>More on Goals and Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not the kind of girl who generally fawns over actors and celebrities.  Personally, I don't really much care about what they do, and I never quite understood what the big deal is with needing to know what they do every day.  To me, they're just people doing their job.  Like anyone who has a job, some do it better than others, some are lazy, some are lucky (probably due to some brown-nosing or something), and some make mistakes.  

But Will Smith continues to fill that seemingly unattainable... thing that many people would like to have, and his celebrity status isn't what makes him the way he is - I think he'd be this way even if he weren't famous.


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		<title>Where do you see yourself in 5 years?</title>
		<link>http://brassblogs.com/business/where-do-you-see-yourself-in-5-years</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband has a master&#8217;s in Business, and he&#8217;s the marketing manager at work. And yet, he&#8217;s never really helped me with my business. Ouch, that sounds harsh! What I mean is, he&#8217;s very supportive of me and my business. But when I fire marketing or business-running related questions at him, he sort of shrugs it off, saying he&#8217;s not sure how to answer it. (I think it&#8217;s because he&#8217;s in electrical components, not web [...]


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