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		<title>Making Time for Retreat: The &#8220;Good Person&#8221; Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have the “good person syndrome”? Check and see if the following (faulty) unconscious personal rules may be why you, too, find it hard to make time for retreat:  

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		<title>&#8220;I wish that for you too&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listen for their dream, even if it seems to you to be the wildest, most unattainable fantasy that ever existed.

And when you hear that dream, or maybe not even a dream, but what sounds like just a casual statement of desire for something in life (people test you with the little things first), try saying, truly meaning it:

“Yes. I wish that for you too.”]]></description>
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		<title>All My Mistakes Have  Become Masterpieces&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How would it change things if you believed that your mistakes were actually the beginning of masterpieces?]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Top Off Your Convertible!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took the top off my convertible last weekend. And the earth moved. Yes, yes, thank you, all of you jokesters for your insight: The earth only appeared to be moving as I zipped along at 70 mph up Texas Highway 290, on my way to see the bluebonnets. Everyone knows it was really the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What if You&#8217;re Not Thrilled About Valentine&#8217;s Day?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Happy Valentine&#8217;s Week to all!..Here are some thoughts about Valentine&#39;s Day) Many people aren&#8217;t crazy about Valentine&#8217;s Day. I have a friend who gets grouchy every year at this time. &#8220;Why should I have to prove my love to someone on one specific day,&#8221; my friend asks, &#8220;when I show that love to them all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Lessons from Photography #1: Detach from Expectations and Assume the Positive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve learned a lot from being a photographer, and from doing many photo shoots&#8230;so I thought I&#39;d share some of my discoveries with you! Here&#39;s the start of a new series, found here and on my new, &#34;Inner Path of Photograhy&#34; blog (click here) . This series is for everyone, photographer or not, for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honor Your Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may seem like a strange thing to suggest, but&#8230;are you truly honoring the amount of stress you have in your life? Honoring, yes&#8230;Acknowledging, seeing, appreciating how much you&#39;re taking on. It seems that in this time of change we&#39;re all constantly expecting ourselves to do more and more. Friends, clients, myself: We all wake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Do You Hang Out With? How Do You Spend  Your Time?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s hard to make changes in life. Whether you&#39;ve decided to improve a relationship, change a career, or do something you&#39;ve always wanted to do, you&#39;re up against many challenges. Committing to a new path involves breaking old habits, learning new ways of doing things, and having the tenacity and will to keep on trying, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heidistraube.com/articles/inspiration/who-and-how-do-you-spend-your-time/</link>
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		<title>Hot Tip: Getting Past Procrastination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have a project you want to do but can&#39;t get started? Set a timer for a short period of time, 15 minutes to an hour. Tell yourself you only have to do this new task for that period of time and then you can stop and go do something else (and mean it!). Watch what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heidistraube.com/articles/inspiration/hot-tip-getting-past-procrastination/</link>
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		<title>Counseling &#8220;at a distance&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to make sure&#8230;did you know that I do phone sessions for career, life direction, and relationship counseling? Don&#39;t let the fact that you don&#39;t live in Houston stop you from working with me&#8230;(yes, yes, a great excuse, right? &#34;Well, I&#39;d love to work with Heidi, but she lives in HOUSTON&#8230;) Well, I have [...]]]></description>
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