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		<title>Law of Fives as it relates to birth control</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2012/03/11/law-of-fives-as-it-relates-to-birth-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I sleep, my big old brain gets out of its own way and let&#8217;s my subconscious make connections I&#8217;d never make when I&#8217;m awake. This happened last night. Most of you will not be interested in this, and you can safely skip this and go about your day and lose nothing by doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am starting a new tradition for the day after Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/11/25/i-am-starting-a-new-tradition-for-the-day-after-thanksgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/11/25/i-am-starting-a-new-tradition-for-the-day-after-thanksgiving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I am starting a new tradition. And, I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that it&#8217;s a strange tradition for someone who loves selling and marketing. While everyone else, apparently, goes into a month-long extravaganza of profligate spending, I choose to not buy and I will reduce my marketing so that I don&#8217;t add to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books &#8211; the best investment I ever made in myself and my future</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/11/11/books-the-best-investment-i-ever-made-in-myself-and-my-future/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/11/11/books-the-best-investment-i-ever-made-in-myself-and-my-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Year From Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Act On Your Dream]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Kennedy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If I keep buying books at the rate I have for the last month, I&#8217;m going to have to build a new wing on the castle to hold my library. Maybe I&#8217;ll give the library at the Biltmore House a run for it&#8217;s money. (grin) When I was a computer consultant, I bought, studied, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What will happen to your business when you die?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/10/30/what-will-happen-to-your-business-when-you-die/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/10/30/what-will-happen-to-your-business-when-you-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dilbeck Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exit plan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have an exit plan for your business? Are you working to build equity or profit? I&#8217;ve been thinking about these issues and wonder about how others see it. This morning, I was reading some of the recent posts on Seth Godin&#8217;s blog. I&#8217;ve been busy with planning and studying and I have not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am living my dream!</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/09/28/i-am-living-my-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/09/28/i-am-living-my-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murphy NC 28906]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good morning, Earthlings (and visitors to this quaint little planet)! It&#8217;s another gorgeous day in my little slice of paradise. This is why I moved to Murphy. It&#8217;s beautiful here. Happy WoooooHooooo Wednesday! It&#8217;s just about an hour until you&#8217;re over the hump for the work week. Lots to do today. To-do lists waiting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of gratitude</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/08/24/the-power-of-gratitude/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/08/24/the-power-of-gratitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=909</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About three weeks ago, I asked, &#8220;How do you start your day?&#8221; I wrote about how I spend some time every morning, before I get out of bed, being grateful for the people, things, and circumstances in my life that have helped make me who I am today. This morning ritual has helped me truly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you start your day?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/08/05/how-do-you-start-your-day/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/08/05/how-do-you-start-your-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For most of my life, I was a night owl. I&#8217;d stay up until 2:00 or later reading or watching TV or doing something creative. Anything but sleeping! No matter how tired I was in the evening, sometime around 11:00 PM or so, I&#8217;d &#8220;get my second wind&#8221; and then I&#8217;d be wide awake for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming obstacles and living our dreams</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/07/31/overcoming-obstacles-and-living-our-dreams/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/07/31/overcoming-obstacles-and-living-our-dreams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is your dream? What are you doing to live it? It&#8217;s a lot easier to think about something we want to do and to imagine doing it than it is to take all the steps to plan how to achieve it and then acting on our dream to make it real. You already know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family or work &#8211; which is most important to you?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/06/26/family-or-work-which-is-most-important-to-you/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/06/26/family-or-work-which-is-most-important-to-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dena Howard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two things you should know about me, if you have any hope at all in trying to understand me. 1. I love my work. 2. I love my family. I love my work For the great majority of my life, those two things were most important to me. Instead of &#8220;I love my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malware coming to a Mac near you?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/05/09/malware-coming-to-a-mac-near-you/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/05/09/malware-coming-to-a-mac-near-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 16:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Macintosh Computers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t run any virus or malware protection software on my Macs in years and I&#8217;ve been getting along just fine. However, there are a couple of new developments that may change things in the near(?) future. 1. Macs are gaining share on the Internet. This means that they may become a viable target for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you deal with stress?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/04/25/how-do-you-deal-with-stress/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/04/25/how-do-you-deal-with-stress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["The Joy Project"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Joy Project: Stress is a fact of life, it doesn&#8217;t have to be a way of life! She makes a good point when noting that the meaning of &#8220;stress&#8221; in common usage has changed over the last 20 years from meaning &#8220;stimulation&#8221; to &#8220;distress.&#8221; This blog post got me to thinking about my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>22nd Century Leadership with Amanda Gore</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/04/21/22nd-century-leadership-with-amanda-gore/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/04/21/22nd-century-leadership-with-amanda-gore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amanda Gore has released a series of videos that preview the subject matter she covers in her 22nd Century Leadership presentations at conferences around the world. She is a highly respected motivational speaker and is very entertaining at the same time. Even though these are not the actual presentations she gives, there is some good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral roots of liberals and conservatives</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/04/20/moral-roots-of-liberals-and-conservatives/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/04/20/moral-roots-of-liberals-and-conservatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has identified and studied five moral values that he thinks &#8220;form the basis of our political choices, whether we&#8217;re left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.&#8221; I just saw this video a few minutes ago and have not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am rich beyond belief</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/04/07/i-am-rich-beyond-belief/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/04/07/i-am-rich-beyond-belief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/?p=748</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By a lot of people&#8217;s standards, I&#8217;m poor. But, by my own standards, I&#8217;m rich beyond belief. I have all that I need and some of what I want. I live in an area I love and I&#8217;m surrounded by wonderful people and the beauty of nature. I love my work and sometimes confuse it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attitude is everything</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/03/30/attitude-is-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/03/30/attitude-is-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The only disability in life is a bad attitude.&#8221; &#8212; Scott Hamilton &#8220;One of the main qualities it takes to be successful is energy&#8230;it may be the only thing.&#8221; &#8212; Katherine Hepburn &#8220;Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.&#8221; &#8212; Helen Keller While we cannot control many of the things that happen to us, [...]]]></description>
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