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		<title>Books &#8211; the best investment I ever made in myself and my future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>How do you start your day?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/08/05/how-do-you-start-your-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>Why do you do what you do?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/05/28/why-do-you-do-what-you-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 13:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this video, Tony Robbins discusses some of the reasons we do what we do, what motivates us, and how we can do it better. The video is a little over 22 minutes long. If that&#8217;s too long for you, move along. I&#8217;ve watched it twice. Now, I&#8217;m letting the thoughts percolate and I&#8217;ll come [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>An attitude of gratitude</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2011/03/28/an-attitude-of-gratitude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of ways to look out on this wonderful world we share. Today, I want to talk about gratitude. I am grateful to be alive and to have all that I need to sustain myself and to do a few of the things I most want to do. I could look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2010/09/19/chris-anderson-how-web-video-powers-global-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy visiting Ted.com on a regular basis, and now that I have a fast broadband connection, I enjoy watching the videos of their Ted Talks. Today, I watched a presentation by Chris Anderson called How web video powers global innovation. He gives an interesting and informative presentation on what he calls &#8220;Crowd Accelerated Innovation.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich test: How do you determine who is helpful and who is harmful?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2010/01/18/think-and-grow-rich-test-how-do-you-determine-who-is-helpful-and-who-is-harmful/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2010/01/18/think-and-grow-rich-test-how-do-you-determine-who-is-helpful-and-who-is-harmful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My answers to the Think and Grow Rich Self-Assessment Test Recently, I was reminded of the self-assessment test in Napoleon Hill&#8217;s best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich. There are fifty-four questions in that test, and I’m going to be giving my answers and thoughts on one or two of them as close to daily as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich test: Is it possible that someone has a negative influence on your mind?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2010/01/18/think-and-grow-rich-test-is-it-possible-that-someone-has-a-negative-influence-on-your-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2010/01/18/think-and-grow-rich-test-is-it-possible-that-someone-has-a-negative-influence-on-your-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My answers to the Think and Grow Rich Self-Assessment Test Recently, I was reminded of the self-assessment test in Napoleon Hill&#8217;s best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich. There are fifty-four questions in that test, and I’m going to be giving my answers and thoughts on one or two of them as close to daily as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich test: Do you see any connection between your friends and some unhappiness in your life?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2009/12/21/think-and-grow-rich-test-do-you-see-any-connection-between-your-friends-and-some-unhappiness-in-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My answers to the Think and Grow Rich Self-Assessment Test Recently, I was reminded of the self-assessment test in Napoleon Hill&#8217;s best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich. There are fifty-four questions in that test, and I’m going to be giving my answers and thoughts on one or two of them as close to daily as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich test: What do you know about your friends?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My answers to the Think and Grow Rich Self-Assessment Test Recently, I was reminded of the self-assessment test in Napoleon Hill&#8217;s best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich. There are fifty-four questions in that test, and I’m going to be giving my answers and thoughts on one or two of them as close to daily as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich test: Do you have spiritual forces to protect you from fear?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2009/12/21/think-and-grow-rich-test-do-you-have-spiritual-forces-to-protect-you-from-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My answers to the Think and Grow Rich Self-Assessment Test Recently, I was reminded of the self-assessment test in Napoleon Hill&#8217;s best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich. There are fifty-four questions in that test, and I’m going to be giving my answers and thoughts on one or two of them as close to daily as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich test: Does your job inspire you?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2009/12/08/think-and-grow-rich-test-does-your-job-inspire-you/</link>
		<comments>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2009/12/08/think-and-grow-rich-test-does-your-job-inspire-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My answers to the Think and Grow Rich Self-Assessment Test Recently, I was reminded of the self-assessment test in Napoleon Hill&#8217;s best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich. There are fifty-four questions in that test, and I’m going to be giving my answers and thoughts on one or two of them as close to daily as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich test: Do you form your own opinions?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2009/12/08/think-and-grow-rich-test-do-you-form-your-own-opinions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My answers to the Think and Grow Rich Self-Assessment Test Recently, I was reminded of the self-assessment test in Napoleon Hill&#8217;s best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich. There are fifty-four questions in that test, and I’m going to be giving my answers and thoughts on one or two of them as close to daily as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich test: What habits in others annoy you the most?</title>
		<link>http://johndilbeckandfriends.com/2009/11/28/think-and-grow-rich-test-what-habits-in-others-annoy-you-the-most/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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