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	<title>Comments on: Improve Your Personal Effectiveness by Finding Balance</title>
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		<title>By: Adi</title>
		<link>http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/improve-your-personal-effectiveness-by-working-less/comment-page-1/#comment-73750</link>
		<dc:creator>Adi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi John,
This is a great article. Being the  thought of being the best acquires a lot of fire (snowballing effect) and a man can go to one extreme, and when dejected can go to the other, in effect losing self confidence. Working less but finding yourself in the work you do is the key to happiness. Motivation of by way of self discovery, can only end at death. If ones mind is rooted here, I do not think he will need to look back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi John,<br />
This is a great article. Being the  thought of being the best acquires a lot of fire (snowballing effect) and a man can go to one extreme, and when dejected can go to the other, in effect losing self confidence. Working less but finding yourself in the work you do is the key to happiness. Motivation of by way of self discovery, can only end at death. If ones mind is rooted here, I do not think he will need to look back.</p>
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		<title>By: Yosra</title>
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		<dc:creator>Yosra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 23:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for articulating what I already know but allow myself to forget.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for articulating what I already know but allow myself to forget.</p>
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		<title>By: Dan</title>
		<link>http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/improve-your-personal-effectiveness-by-working-less/comment-page-1/#comment-71702</link>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Free time is the new poverty. Health is truly wealth. A lot of people want wealth, fame, and power so they can receive approval from others. I saw a ufo as big as a football stadium. All true. Balance that!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Free time is the new poverty. Health is truly wealth. A lot of people want wealth, fame, and power so they can receive approval from others. I saw a ufo as big as a football stadium. All true. Balance that!</p>
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		<title>By: Mohammed</title>
		<link>http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/improve-your-personal-effectiveness-by-working-less/comment-page-1/#comment-71368</link>
		<dc:creator>Mohammed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Really amazing work, GOD BLESS U ......</description>
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		<title>By: Dayflyer</title>
		<link>http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/improve-your-personal-effectiveness-by-working-less/comment-page-1/#comment-70972</link>
		<dc:creator>Dayflyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Balance does seem better than extremes, although there are some exceptions - financially successful people who do manage to combine this with relationship success. So maybe there are other factors at work as well, that help the overall balance.

Writing this in January 2009, I wonder if the economic woes will help people get closer to balance? Less money and more uncertainty may lead to more thought and decisions based on compromise, due to not being able to afford everything you think you want. Maybe people will find they don&#039;t need to have as many material things, they can balance these up with things that don&#039;t cost money.

Sometimes people aren&#039;t following their own desires, but those of other people - whether they realise this or not. If your parents pushed you to succeed, you may end up unbalanced because you&#039;ve not made your own choices.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Balance does seem better than extremes, although there are some exceptions &#8211; financially successful people who do manage to combine this with relationship success. So maybe there are other factors at work as well, that help the overall balance.</p>
<p>Writing this in January 2009, I wonder if the economic woes will help people get closer to balance? Less money and more uncertainty may lead to more thought and decisions based on compromise, due to not being able to afford everything you think you want. Maybe people will find they don&#8217;t need to have as many material things, they can balance these up with things that don&#8217;t cost money.</p>
<p>Sometimes people aren&#8217;t following their own desires, but those of other people &#8211; whether they realise this or not. If your parents pushed you to succeed, you may end up unbalanced because you&#8217;ve not made your own choices.</p>
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		<title>By: me</title>
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		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ADDITION the key.......denominator [  ]? not denominator (reply) (some day)  (even after I tell my self) possive balance the gold mind...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ADDITION the key&#8230;&#8230;.denominator [  ]? not denominator (reply) (some day)  (even after I tell my self) possive balance the gold mind&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: edward</title>
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		<dc:creator>edward</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a building contractor and i just am finishing a two week vacation, where i was working on my house---doing things that havent been done for a while---now i am having a huge problem with motivation---i just dont want to go back to work---an more so i dont even think i want to do this!?!?!?---the thought of a long estimate followed up by a two month go go go with all the crazieness just doesnt appeal to me---now what?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a building contractor and i just am finishing a two week vacation, where i was working on my house&#8212;doing things that havent been done for a while&#8212;now i am having a huge problem with motivation&#8212;i just dont want to go back to work&#8212;an more so i dont even think i want to do this!?!?!?&#8212;the thought of a long estimate followed up by a two month go go go with all the crazieness just doesnt appeal to me&#8212;now what?</p>
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		<title>By: Jao Vendetta</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jao Vendetta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have just graduated from highschool and am in the summer before i really begin my life as an adult.  Ive realized the enormous amounts of expectation placed upon me by my parents and older people and consequently have drifted to the extreme of the rebellious angry pre-adult.  I tend to realize imbalances after mucking about in them for awhile, and so after reading this article, i feel as though i must try to regain the Golden Balance, or end up very unhappy and empty.  Thank You!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have just graduated from highschool and am in the summer before i really begin my life as an adult.  Ive realized the enormous amounts of expectation placed upon me by my parents and older people and consequently have drifted to the extreme of the rebellious angry pre-adult.  I tend to realize imbalances after mucking about in them for awhile, and so after reading this article, i feel as though i must try to regain the Golden Balance, or end up very unhappy and empty.  Thank You!</p>
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		<title>By: Quotes On Leadership Can Make You Be A Real Leader &#124; mindsecretsexposed.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Quotes On Leadership Can Make You Be A Real Leader &#124; mindsecretsexposed.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] such as this helps to remind you of certain traits or qualities that might have brushed past you while you were leading. Humor, decisiveness, care and concern [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] such as this helps to remind you of certain traits or qualities that might have brushed past you while you were leading. Humor, decisiveness, care and concern [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Renalie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Renalie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People who shared this article really uplift the spirit of anyone:)

GREAT!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People who shared this article really uplift the spirit of anyone:)</p>
<p>GREAT!!!!</p>
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