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		<title>Handling Big Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anne Lamott tells a story about her father giving advice to her brother when he was in a panic over a school report he had to write about birds, which was due the next day. Her brother was overwhelmed by the size of the project, and was almost in tears. He didn&#8217;t know how where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/11/04/handling-big-projects/</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s on your team?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody reaches their goal alone. Tiger Woods wins the tournaments, but his trainers, caddies, and consultants helped prepare him. Writing is a solitary pursuit if ever there was one, but Stephen King has editors, assistants, and his beloved Tabitha supporting him. I challenge you to name a single business or political leader who climbed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/10/25/whos-on-your-team/</link>
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		<title>Staying Motivated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Staying motivated is important. When my motivation for a project fades, I spend less time on it and my attention wanders to newer, fresher things. It doesn’t mean that the project is any less important to me; it’s just that my sense of urgency or enthusiasm isn’t what it was when I started. Knowing this, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/10/19/staying-motivated/</link>
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		<title>Making Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am chronically late. Ask anyone. The only things I&#8217;m always on time to are events where being late causes serious problems. I get to the airport early. I get to business meetings on time. I never arrive late for court. Otherwise, expect me ten to fifteen minutes after I&#8217;m supposed to be there. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/10/11/making-time/</link>
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		<title>Brisk Morning Runs and the Value of Persistence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some basic things everyone should learn early in life; how to tie your shoes, saying please and thank-you, and the value of persistence. Most everyone masters the first two pretty early (although some folks could use an occasional reminder about saying thank you). The persistence thing can take a while longer to really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/10/04/brisk-morning-runs-and-the-value-of-persistence/</link>
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		<title>Windshield or Bug?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while there I was a fan of *crossover* country music, and Mary Chapin Carpenter was one of my favorites. A standard on my iPod rotation had the line, “sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.” Yesterday, I was the bug. I was fasting, which is normal for my Mondays, but it didn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/08/23/windshield-or-bug/</link>
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		<title>Do You Exercise your &#8220;Eye&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many skills, having a “creative eye” for photography requires practice. There are many different ways to stretch your brain and sharpen your skills, and one of my favorites is to very consciously and very deliberately look around you and see things. Notice the shadow from your glass of ice tea, how the light comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/08/17/do-you-exercise-your-eye/</link>
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		<title>I May Be Slow, but I Know How to Fast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last two years or so, I have semi-consistently done a liquid fast one day a week, consuming at least 3 quarts of liquid during the fast (diet soda, seltzer, water, coffee, and tea, but nothing with sugar). I started this habit as part of a weight-loss plan. My thinking was, and still is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/08/09/i-may-be-slow-but-i-know-how-to-fast/</link>
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		<title>Less is More (&#8230; especially of me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have resumed working on my overall fitness, after a few months of being lazy. I&#8217;m using a combination of diet and exercise to meet my goals. There is running 4 days a week (T,T,S,S) and lifting in my gym 3 days a week (M,W,F). I am also using the Dukan Diet for my mealplan. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/08/04/less-is-more-especially-of-me/</link>
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		<title>Fit is the New Black</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early last year I lost almost 60 pounds, which was a great thing. The catch, and there always is one, is that late last year I &#8220;found&#8221; 40 of those pounds. I realized lately how much of a psychological burden those pounds have, and decided that the extra weight is going away. I&#8217;ve signed up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.engelfish.net/2011/02/02/fit-is-the-new-black/</link>
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