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		<title>Sometimes we reinvent the wheel.</title>
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		<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>
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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>
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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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		<title>Spring must be coming, because I want to clean.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started my sabbatical officially in October 2009. However, I didn&#8217;t tie up most of my &#8220;loose ends&#8221; until pretty much the New Year. &#60;internal musing>I wonder if that makes it okay to say that my sabbatical actually started January 2010&#8230;&#60;/internal musing> Since then, I&#8217;ve been doing pretty much what I thought I&#8217;d be doing. Nothing. Ohhhh&#8230;. I know that sounds bad. (Well, except for the people that do think that the words &#8220;going on [...]


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		<title>Where to begin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am, it&#8217;s a Thursday morning, and I feel like I&#8217;m walking back into my office after a looooong painful holiday. That statement is partially true because I actually was away for the holidays, but the painful part is because upon my return, I came down with the flu. I did manage to make it into my office a few times, but I couldn&#8217;t do much that was worth anything (as you can see [...]


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		<title>Changing the mindset for the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m terrible. Here it is, January 4th, and I&#8217;m just now wishing everyone a &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221;. I had a reason, though&#8230; I wen to West Virginia to visit with my family and we were down there for almost 2 weeks. My mom doesn&#8217;t have a great internet connection and&#8230; well, we tend to not spend our time with electronic devices anyway. So, that being said, I get &#8220;Inglorious Basterds&#8221; as a present over [...]


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