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		<title>Are You Asking the Right Questions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;re going to do a bit of reverse engineering to see just what it is that makes us tick. Ready? Here we go: Our life—which includes our job, our relationships, our income, our health—is determined, to a large extent, by our actions. Our actions are determined, to a large extent, by our beliefs. Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do One Thing Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will your one thing be today? Back when I was producing my sketch comedy TV show, Almost Live!, I had one cardinal rule that I followed, for each and every show, during the entire 15-year run. That rule was this: For each show, there had to be at least one element that would make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Moved My Peas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, a status report. My cheese is fine. Nobody&#8217;s moved my cheese; my cheese is right where it&#8217;s always been. Cheese, you see, is the reward you get for making it through the maze. It&#8217;s the fun stuff. Cheese is: the glass of wine at the end of the day the weekend movie the summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of &#8220;Focus&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished co-chairing (with the truly amazing Ruby Newell-Legner) a major conference for my professional organization, the National Speakers Association (NSA). By all accounts, it was a huge success (which translates, of course, into huge relief for me!). In the three days since the event ended, I&#8217;ve spent some time trying to discern what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What It Takes to Be a Champion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 23rd, 2010 is a date that will go down in Wimbledon history. This is the date that two guys whom you&#8217;ve probably never heard of—Nicolas Mahut and John Isner—battled for ten straight hours in a match that had to be completed the following day because, well, because it got dark! Ten straight hours! Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Lying About &#8220;Going to Work&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 19:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a guy at my gym whom I call Burl. Not because he&#8217;s burly, like you&#8217;d expect a gym regular to be, but because he looks like Burl Ives. (For you younger readers, Burl Ives was a rotund, congenial-looking man, whom you may know as the voice of Frosty the Snowman. He was not known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Good is Your &#8220;Satellite&#8221; Team?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know their names: John, Paul, George, and Ringo. (If there are any children reading this who don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about, these are the names of the Beatles. The Beatles were a pretty famous musical group in the 60s. The 60s was the coolest decade ever, and you missed it. So there.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Preparing for Success, or Just Waiting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you preparing for success, or, to paraphrase Shakespeare, waiting for success to be thrust upon you? My first job in television was basically that of a glorified secretary (and by &#8220;glorified&#8221; I mean &#8220;unglorified&#8221;). My primary function was to answer viewer mail. At around 2:00pm on my first day, while I was answering the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Waiting for First Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything is better in first class. Right? I mean, that&#8217;s why they call it first class. It puts you ahead of the rest. How many times have you been sitting back in steerage (the airlines call it &#8220;economy&#8221;), seen the people in the front of the aircraft being served foie gras and vintage champagne and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Answer This Basic Question?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What do you do for a living?&#8221; That&#8217;s a question that far too many people dread, because they don&#8217;t have a good, compelling answer. They say something like, &#8220;I&#8217;m a lawyer,&#8221; or, &#8220;I&#8217;m a financial planner,&#8221; or, &#8220;I&#8217;m the drummer for the Beatles,&#8221; and then wonder why everybody quickly walks away. (Okay, they&#8217;re probably not [...]]]></description>
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