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	<title>Shift Your Mind</title>
	
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		<title>Where I Learn Stuff From</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several people lately have asked me where I learn &#8220;stuff&#8221; from: ranging from technology info, to productivity, to the new primal diet I am on.  I am quite honored that people would ask me this question.  The quest for knowledge is important to me.  I feel any day where I didn&#8217;t learn at least 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Ways to Get Yourself Out of a Rut</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.&#8221;
-Ellen Glasgow (Pulitzer Prize winning novelist)
We all have those moments in life where it feels nothing new is happening.  We&#8217;re just going through the motions doing the bare necessities to survive.  Things which we once enjoyed, have now fallen by the wayside.  We wake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clear the Junk Off Your Computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Simplicity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clutter is the bane of many people these days.  During the tight economy, there has been a surge in the number of people looking to remove excess from their lives.
An often overlooked place where we tend to clutter &#8220;stuff&#8221; is on our computers.  Many people have dozens of files on their desktop, lots of applets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embrace Ignorance, Kill the News!</title>
		<link>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/personal-change/embrace-ignorance-kill-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shiftyourmind.com/?p=364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a followup to my post on my efforts to kill information overload (4 Ways I&#8217;m Fighting Information Overload) I have gone exactly 1 week without listening to or reading &#8220;news.&#8221;  This meant: no accessing my favorite news sites, no talk radio in the morning, and no watching TV news channels.
My solution, in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Must See, Inspirational Video: Carry On</title>
		<link>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/inspirational/a-must-see-inspirational-video-carry-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/inspirational/a-must-see-inspirational-video-carry-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite being an avid sports fan, I am usually not one to watch the &#8220;sappy&#8221; stories that became en vogue as part of the Olympics.  Usually they are over produced, over glorified, and seem to be done to make the reporter look better than they really are.  I&#8217;m not saying the stories aren&#8217;t stirring, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why People Amaze Me, Despite Adversity</title>
		<link>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/uncategorized/why-people-amaze-me-despite-adversity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/uncategorized/why-people-amaze-me-despite-adversity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shiftyourmind.com/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of last month, I have been working for my current employer for 20 years.  I started working for my organization one month after my 16th birthday (yes, this reveals my age.)  We, like many others, are facing an unprecedented economic crisis. Our budget has dropped some 30% over the last several years, forcing our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Ways I’m Fighting Information Overload (and yes, I’m writing again)</title>
		<link>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/right-tasking-and-productivity/4-ways-im-fighting-information-overload-and-yes-im-writing-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Right-Tasking & Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simplicity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I, like many people, am an information junkie.  Whether it&#8217;s news, sports, or what&#8217;s happening in the technology world, I am obsessed with always being &#8220;in the know.&#8221;  It seems I can&#8217;t go more than a few hours without checking my favorite news sources or checking out the hottest Twitter trend at the moment.
It&#8217;s great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14 Surefire Ways to Ensure a Meeting Will Fail</title>
		<link>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/awareness/14-surefire-ways-to-ensure-a-meeting-will-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/awareness/14-surefire-ways-to-ensure-a-meeting-will-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Meetings are indispensable, if you don&#8217;t want to do anything.&#8221;
&#8211;John Kenneth Galbraith
I, like many people, am not a big fan of meetings.  They can be disruptive to the flow of work during the course of the day, often contain information that could have been communicated more effectively, and lack actionable items.
That being said, I recognize that meetings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Free Online Tools for Keeping Your Stuff Organized</title>
		<link>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/technology/3-free-online-tools-for-keeping-your-stuff-organized/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/technology/3-free-online-tools-for-keeping-your-stuff-organized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shiftyourmind.com/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year or so, I have tried to find better ways to organize all of my digital &#8220;stuff.&#8221;  I must admit, I tend to be a digital packrat.  Therefore, I need tools that allow me to store lots of data and have great search capabilities so that I can find it all later. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Painless Tips for Reducing Email Stress</title>
		<link>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/right-tasking-and-productivity/4-painless-tips-for-reducing-email-stress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shiftyourmind.com/right-tasking-and-productivity/4-painless-tips-for-reducing-email-stress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Right-Tasking & Productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If email had been around before the telephone was invented people would have said &#8220;hey, forget email &#8211; with this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people.&#8221;
&#8212;anonymous
Much has been written on how to be more effective using email.  We all complain about email overload and how unproductive it makes us.  Yet we continue [...]]]></description>
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