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	<title>Slow Leadership &#187; Balance</title>
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	<description>Articles on returning humanity to working life.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Pitfalls of Emotional Reasoning</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/11/the-pitfalls-of-emotional-reasoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many joys in the journey through life, but plenty of pitfalls too. Sometimes the most difficult blockages to overcome are the ones inside your own head. The way you think, and what you tell yourself about events and people, can stop you cold on the journey towards happiness. ]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Put Up With Living in More-or-Less Comfortable Misery?</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/11/do-you-put-up-with-living-in-more-or-less-comfortable-misery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/11/do-you-put-up-with-living-in-more-or-less-comfortable-misery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Simosko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nina Simosko says no one should allow themselves to fall prey to comfortable misery. Not only does doing so make for many unhappy days in your own job and life, it serves no productive purpose for your company either. Change your thinking about what satisfies you. Don't settle for what is mediocre, however comfortable it seems to be.]]></description>
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		<title>What Are My Options?</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/11/what-are-my-options/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ If you want to transform your life, the first step is to re-establish conscious choice in place of all those automatic, habitual decisions. This will give you back your ability to find fresh options to replace worn out habits; permanently increase your opportunities to learn; and free you from repeating past mistakes.]]></description>
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		<title>How To Gain Insight</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/11/how-to-gain-insight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/11/how-to-gain-insight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Vajda tells you how to ‘tune in’ to greater creativity and understanding and create the condition needed to gain the insights you may have been seeking. ]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do You Need To Be Right?</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/why-do-you-need-to-be-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/why-do-you-need-to-be-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Vajda reflects on how much does the ‘I’m right—you’re wrong’ dynamic plays out in people’s everyday interactions: and what good things might happen if you sometimes let go of that nagging need to be proved right all the time.]]></description>
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		<title>Coping with the Plague</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/coping-with-the-plague/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/coping-with-the-plague/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Major</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An inspiring piece from Helen Major about how to face up to—and ultimately overcome—the frightening failure of economic and political institutions that is currently threatening our future.]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Life—The Turning Point For Many</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/mid-life%e2%80%94the-turning-point-for-many/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/mid-life%e2%80%94the-turning-point-for-many/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Vajda reflects on those who have spent many years, dollars and energy on primping their outside, when what they’re looking for is on the inside. At mid-life, many people are no longer experiencing fun, peace or joy. They’re at the point where they are starting to feel a need to explore their legacy, many for the first time. What do you want out of life? What qualities do you want your life to represent most? Why not take a moment to consider where to go next?]]></description>
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		<title>The Game is Up for You . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/the-game-is-up-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/the-game-is-up-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fletcher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Fletcher reflects on the value of money as an incentive and why we need to rethink our relationship with monetary rewards. “Give somebody an incentive to be stupid and they will be stupid,” he writes. “Give somebody a large incentive to be stupid—like allowing them to borrow thirty times the capital of their bank to gamble with—and they will be extra-stupid.”]]></description>
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		<title>Searching For The Ego&#8217;s Magic Pill</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/searching-for-the-egos-magic-pill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/searching-for-the-egos-magic-pill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Vajda thinks most people don’t really want to heal: they just want less pain and suffering, ideally through some magic 'pill' to take away the symptoms and leave everything normal again. The culprit is the ego: that part of your mind that constantly tries to make you who and what you say you are—even if that means staying with the pain rather than changing your persona.]]></description>
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		<title>Boomers Rampant</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/boomers-rampant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/boomers-rampant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Major</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Helen Major considers another looming issue for our times: the large number of Baby Boomers approaching retirement. Will we tackle this with care and insight? Or let stereotyping, prejudice and media hype—on both sides—turn a well-understood problem into yet another politicized crisis? Current events don't seem to offer a very hopeful outcome.]]></description>
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		<title>Security is an Illusion—Especially in a Time of Fear</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/security-is-an-illusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/security-is-an-illusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[‘Wordless Aarticle’] In a time of fear, the temptation is to try somehow to ‘cure’ the problem that you’re afraid of. This is a mistake. The reality is that there has never been a way to remove uncertainty from life altogether. The only sound answer lies in accepting what is and coping with it as best you can.]]></description>
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		<title>My Lawn Mower Made Me Do It!</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/my-lawn-mower-made-me-do-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/my-lawn-mower-made-me-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To become reactive means to act without thinking, to respond instinctively and emotionally—even towards inanimate objects. Peter Vajda reminds us that objects don’t cause problems deliberately, nor can emotional responses cause them pain or lead them to repent. Those are human attributes. In the end, it's all about you.]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting Coffee Corners</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/cutting-coffee-corners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/cutting-coffee-corners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Lockett</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kath Lockett muses on the lure of a cup of good coffee, and the way some bosses view the time it takes to purchase some of the good stuff as an unwarranted intrusion on the drones' working days.]]></description>
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		<title>The Misnomer Called &#8216;Work-Life Balance&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/the-misnomer-called-work-life-balance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/the-misnomer-called-work-life-balance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Simosko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who has been in the professional workforce for the entirety of the “work-life balance” debate, Nina Simosko says she has never agreed with the notion of achieving some kind of balance between competing segments of life. For her, life is a continuum: while there are clearly times when work-related responsibilities demand more of the 24 hours available in any given day, there are also times where personal matters rightly claim the lion's share. The answer is to focus on outcomes, not some illusory and theoretical balance.]]></description>
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		<title>Are &#8216;Difficult&#8217; People Really Difficult?</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/are-difficult-people-really-difficult/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/are-difficult-people-really-difficult/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no question that in most every organization (plus home and anywhere else we spend time), we come face to face with folks who push our buttons, antagonize, frustrate, or otherwise annoy us. People who behave in ways that make us want to scream. But are they pushing your buttons — or are you doing it to yourself? Peter Vajda explores some of the ways in which the stories we tell ourselves about the difficult people in our lives contribute to making the situation far worse than it needs to be.]]></description>
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