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		<title>Take a Moment of Reflection: Your Precious Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ― Mary Oliver &#160; As we prepare to end this year and enter the next, it’s a good time to do some reflection on how you want to live. Are you treating your life as precious?  Are you giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Moment of Reflection: Wherever You Are is Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Stand still.  The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost.  Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes.  Listen.  It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Moment of Reflection: Beyond Right or Wrong</title>
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		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2011/11/04/take-a-moment-of-reflection-beyond-right-or-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[inner wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rumi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿ “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.  I’ll meet you there.” -Rumi, Sufi poet When we name things as “right” or “wrong,” we leave no room for a meeting of the hearts.   When I find myself in disagreement with someone, I can get into a place of fierce self-righteousness.  Instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Time for a Moment of Reflection</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2011/09/04/take-the-time-for-a-moment-of-reflection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2011/09/04/take-the-time-for-a-moment-of-reflection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contentment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fulfillment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner calm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner wisdom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reflection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In various spiritual practices, the world as we experience it with our senses is considered an illusion.  It is not reality.   Reality is the internal place at the core of our being – the place our inner wisdom, inner calm and sense of well being reside; the place that contains the essence of our energetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Day My Heart Just Opened Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bikram Yoga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camel Pose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iyanla Vanzant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One Day My Soul Just Opened Up is the title of a fabulous book by Iyanla Vanzant that takes the reader through a 40-day process of spiritual and personal growth. I had an experience recently that gave me an understanding of how Iyanla must have felt when she came up with the title of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC’s Not So Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boundary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clarity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to the Jackson Five song that states, “it’s as easy as ABC,” I’m not sure ABC is so easy after all. One of the ways I analyze individuals, groups and organizations in my change catalyst work is through my ABCD™ Model. In this Model, A=Alignment and Balance, B= Boundaries and Connections, C=Clarity, and D=Discernment. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindless vs. Mindful</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/04/10/mindless-vs-mindful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/04/10/mindless-vs-mindful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Being Present]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/?p=159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why are we so attracted to being mindless? Today’s technology has made it easier and easier for us to remain completely mindless. Walking down the street on the way to the subway station. Why allow my mind to have some quiet time to reflect when I can send an email or make a quick phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Need to See the Connections</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/01/01/we-need-to-see-the-connections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2010/01/01/we-need-to-see-the-connections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So often, we fail to see the connections in our life.  In some cases, this can be life threatening.  In the New York Times Magazine article, Perplexing Pain, Lisa Sanders writes about a woman who suffered for years from attacks of abdominal pain, rapid heart rate, fever, and a variety of other symptoms.  Despite seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shoe Makers Children Go Without Shoes</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/05/12/the-shoe-makers-children-go-without-shoes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/05/12/the-shoe-makers-children-go-without-shoes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 20:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindful and Intentional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sabbath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Muller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work-Life Balance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the clients I work with are from nonprofit organizations – people in some form of helping/service profession.  One of the themes that run through the work I do with individual coaching clients or when working in groups is: helpers give to others without taking adequate care of themselves. Whether they are executive directors [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why is it so Hard to Take a Vacation?</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/01/13/why-is-it-so-hard-to-take-a-vacation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/01/13/why-is-it-so-hard-to-take-a-vacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindful and Intentional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive Director]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive Director's Roundtable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning and Support Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reframing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vacation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the January 2009 meeting of my monthly Executive Director’s Roundtable for Women, we talked about the work-related benefits of taking a vacation.  Most of the participants had just come back from having taken time off work over the holidays.  They came back feeling fresh, focused, and re-energized.   They saw a noticeable difference in their [...]]]></description>
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