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<description><![CDATA[Craig Harper (B.Ex.Sci.) is the #1 ranked Motivational Speaker (according to Google).  He is a qualified exercise scientist, author, columnist, radio presenter, television host and owner of one of the largest personal training centres in the world.]]></description>
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<title>Why Do You Do Exactly What You Did Yesterday, Even Though Yesterday Was Crap?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The truth is that many people will get out of bed today and do exactly what they did yesterday, even though yesterday was crap. Yes, we humans are very predictable and habitual creatures. In fact, some people will get out of bed and do what they did last week, last month and sometimes, last decade, even though they've been complaining about their life for years.]]></description>
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<title>When Did I Stop Having Fun</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:46:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There was a time when you and I didn't worry about stuff. Any stuff. Remember those days?]]></description>
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<title>Relationships: When To Stay And When To Go</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 16:03:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, acknowledge it or not, believe it or not, the truth is that right now many of us (maybe the majority) have at least one unhealthy (optional) relationship in our life. It might be with a friend, a colleague, a business partner, a lover or spouse. For the purpose of this discussion, unhealthy could mean anything from poor communication, mutual indifference and boredom through to mental, emotional and (sadly) physical abuse.]]></description>
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<title>6 Questions To Ask Yourself When You Think Your Life's Unfair</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 10:12:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In life, sometimes stuff works out and sometimes, it doesn't. Of course it does. And doesn't. Sometimes, things go exactly to plan and sometimes, our plan kicks us in the nuts.]]></description>
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<title>How To Manage Self Doubt When You Feel Like A Fake</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 10:58:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Put up your hand if you ever feel like a fraud. A fake? A phony? A pretender? Me too. Even in the middle of some (relative) success, I have often felt not 'something' enough. Not smart enough. Qualified enough. Experienced enough. Lean enough. Young enough. Old enough. Funny enough. Academic enough.]]></description>
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<title>Why Is My Life So Hard - Fifty Questions You Need To Ask</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 11:19:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If we're serious about changing our reality then we must be serious about asking the best reality-shaping questions. Better questions produce a better mindset, decisions, actions, reactions and overall, better results. Asking ourselves intelligent, relevant and courageous questions puts us in a more creative, positive and solution-focused head space.]]></description>
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<title>Here's Why You Should Have Sex For Your Health</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:02:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Making love. Sex. Shagging. Bonking. Banging. Screwing. Rooting. Call it what you like but if it wasn't for the no-pants dance, you and I wouldn't be here. Sure, we all have our own quirky rules, beliefs and personal issues (about sex) but when we can find a way past all our religious, moral, mental and emotional barriers, science tells us that (yep, science!) the occasional roll in the hay can reap some healthy rewards. Although, I can think of better places to roll. And if there's one thing we men need, it's more incentive to have sex.]]></description>
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<title>At This Time In Our Evolution What Is Our Most Valuable Skill?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:23:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our world is an ever-changing one. It's in a constant state of flux and re-invention. Sometimes that's good and sometimes, not so good. In many ways, the world as we know it is shifting under our feet. Business, medicine, the economy, technology, communication, education, media, travel and a whole lot more. Like it or not, want it or not, some things will never be the same. In fact, most things will never be the same.]]></description>
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<title>The Easiest Way to Change Your Behaviour</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:38:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the big scary world of behavioural psychology, there are numerous models of change. Today, I thought I'd share mine. The various stages don't always happen in the order you see them outlined here but nonetheless, they all seem to happen eventually.]]></description>
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<title>How to Get Out of A Self Created, Less Than Desirable Reality</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:10:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A few years back, I met with a guy who wanted my help to lose some weight; not an altogether uncommon request in my world. Without giving you specific details, it's fair to say that he was morbidly obese. That is, huge. Somewhere in the vicinity of double his ideal bodyweight.]]></description>
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<title>What To Do When You Experience That &quot;I'm Not Good Enough&quot; Feeling</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:44:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Self-loathing: I don't really see the point of it. Sure, I understand why we do it from time to time (some of us, all the time) but, for the most part, it serves no positive purpose. It's a total waste of time and energy. In fact, it's a terrible mental and emotional investment. And, an unnecessary one. If anything, all it does is dig a deeper and deeper hole that becomes increasingly harder to climb out of - for not only the self-loather but also for anyone in his or her orbit. And sadly, the further we dig ourselves into our self-loathing hole, the darker our world becomes.]]></description>
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<title>How To Liberate Yourself By Letting Go Of The Need to Be Right</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:35:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I was twenty-seven, I thought I knew almost everything. At thirty-seven, it was becoming apparent that I wasn't nearly as smart as I had originally thought. Now, at forty-seven, I realise I don't know much at all. In fact, if I stay on my current trajectory, by fifty-seven I will be a total ignoramus and by sixty-seven I may well be a plant in the foyer of some fancy hotel.]]></description>
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<title>How To Find Peace in Our Fast Paced World</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:55:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It often occurs to me that, in the middle of all our energy-saving, time-saving technology and breakthroughs, in some ways, we're no better off. Of course, life is easier on a practical level but I wonder if easier necessarily equates to better? And I wonder if easier necessarily equates to happier?]]></description>
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<title>How To Turn Your Idea Into A Reality</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:32:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As you know, once upon a time the car and motorbike were just clever ideas. So too was the wheel, for that matter. Of course there was a time when things like space travel, the internet, Facebook, the Harry Potter series and even mundane things like long-life milk were just wacky concepts floating around in the minds of some very creative and clever people - people who identified a need or opportunity and came up with an idea. A concept. A possibility.]]></description>
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<title>The Secrets of Effective Communication - How to Engage and Make Your Customer Never Want to Leave</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:10:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how some people are great at speaking but not so good at communicating? That is, they seem to have an adequate vocabulary and more-than-adequate speaking skills but for some reason (or reasons) they just don't communicate effectively with others. They talk a lot but don't connect much.]]></description>
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<title>Three Steps To Finding Your Ideal You</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:45:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm of the not-very-popular opinion that the majority of people who say they want to change their lives - or part thereof - in a significant way are simply not prepared to do what's required; you know - the hard stuff. As a consequence, they will never begin to explore the limits of their potential, power or possibilities - and not because they don't have a capacity for brilliance, excellence or success (we all do) - but, rather, because they don't have a willingness to get uncomfortable enough for long enough. They lack an attitude of total commitment to the change process.]]></description>
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<title>Here's a Quick Way to Reduce Global Obesity</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:06:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It may or may not surprise you to learn that many Australians (and many people from most first-world countries for that matter) spend somewhere in the vicinity of twenty-two to twenty-three hours per day either sitting or lying. That's 91.5 - 96% of their (our) time not moving. There's a terrifying and fat-producing thought!]]></description>
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<title>What's The One Thing You Won't Hear In A Society Obsessed With Avoiding Responsibility?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:57:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is it just my cynical perspective and observation or have we actually become a society obsessed with avoiding all responsibility for our own bad behaviours? Kind of like five-year-olds denying we ate the chocolate cake when the remnants are plastered all over our chubby little faces? Have you noticed how many people seem to do shitty things that are somehow not their fault?]]></description>
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<title>Do You Make These 10 Common Mistakes Before Weighing Yourself?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:09:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I've dealt with my fair share of weigh-a-holics. That is, people who step on the scales far too often. Some do it every day of their lives. Morning and night. Some step on and off five times in ten seconds in the hope that a lower figure might magically appear between their feet. Then they do it again thirty seconds later. Sound familiar?]]></description>
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<title>The One Guaranteed Way to Get Rid of Obesity Once and For All</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:50:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For many years (maybe twenty), I've been of the opinion that the majority of people trying to lose weight, build muscle, increase fitness, improve their health or facilitate any kind of lasting physical transformation (lasting, being the key term here) go about it the wrong way. Which is kind of obvious and logical when you take a look at how many people don't achieve what they set out to. I've also been of the opinion that many alleged health and fitness experts get it wrong too. Including me at times.]]></description>
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<title>How To Start Thinking Positively In Less Than Sixty Seconds</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:41:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So, here's how you can start thinking positively in less than 60 seconds: 1. You are not your body and your body is not you but you best look after each other anyway. You might be together for a while.]]></description>
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<title>What Can Santa Teach Us About Challenging Our Beliefs?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:39:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For seven years of my life, I knew Santa was real. After all, he came to my house every Christmas night so I had no reason to believe anything else. All of my experiences until that point in my young life had reinforced the messages my parents had shared with me.]]></description>
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<title>Build a Better Version of You That You Can Be Proud Of</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:06:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone has one thing in common: a desire to change something (or maybe, many things) about their current reality. It's normal to want better. More. The same can be said for people who join a gym, enlist the services of a life coach, start their own business, buy a self-help book, make a New Year's resolution, go on a diet or plead for 'one more chance'.]]></description>
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<title>First Date - Humorous Dating Tips For Men</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/5962703</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:39:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As I said, lately I have spoken with several women in their late-twenties to mid-fifties who, for a range of interesting reasons, are back on the dating scene and the overwhelming feedback I get from them is that the majority of available men are... total tools.]]></description>
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<title>How to Tell When Someone Is Lying</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:49:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The 'experts' have written volumes about the many and varied signs of lying. However, unless you're applying for a job with the FBI, CIA, MI5, KGB or any other serious-sounding acronym, the following summary should be pretty much all you need to know. You'll notice that the person's words are not actually mentioned here. That's because (apart from dubious claims, internal inconsistencies and irrational arguments ) a person's words are often the least accurate indication of whether or not they are lying. Rather than listening to what they are saying, look at how they are saying it.]]></description>
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<title>Change Management: Disengage the Auto-Pilot</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:06:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you get up most days and do what you did the day (week, month, year) before, not because you really want to or because you're excited about it, but because you believe that's what your situation requires? Or, maybe you do it because you're on auto-pilot and, on some level, part of you has given up. Thrown your arms in the air. Submitted. Do you feel like you're truly living, learning, growing and evolving or is it more like you're surviving? Enduring? Coping? On some level, do you have an awareness that one or more of your current relationships is toxic? Do you keep hoping that things will somehow work themselves out? And how's that going for you?]]></description>
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<title>How to Overcome Your Comfort Addiction</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:03:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm of the not-very-popular opinion that many of us living in first-world countries have become fat, precious and lazy. Physically, mentally and emotionally. Literally and metaphorically. Enamored with the idea of personal transformation but terrified by the practical reality of it. In some ways, we've become victims of our own intolerance for anything uncomfortable. We've become whiners, sooks and princesses.]]></description>
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<title>Stress Management for Effective Ways to Manage Stress</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:44:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I talk about stress in the context of this conversation, I'm talking about the negative version. Of course, some types of stress can create a positive response - like stressing our muscles in the gym to make them stronger - but for this discussion, I'm talking about distress. That is, the kind of stress that has the potential to produce negative outcomes on a mental, emotional and physical level.]]></description>
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<title>Practical Parenting - Some Questions You Need to Ask</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:59:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I worry about kids who never experience any kind of loss. Who never scrape their knees. Who never climb a tree, chase a frog, attack an ant nest, crash their bike or play in dirt. Who never experience the unfairness of life.]]></description>
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<title>Brain Fitness Is Just As Important As Physical Fitness</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:24:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you ever feel like your mind is turning to mush? Like your brain has been sitting on the couch and eating cake for two decades? Well, if you said "yes" to those questions then (1) you're not alone and (2) you can turn it around if you're prepared to do the work.]]></description>
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<title>Goal Setting: The One Question You Need To Ask</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:46:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever arrived at a destination - literally or metaphorically - only to discover that it wasn't what you thought it would be? It didn't live up to your expectations? Or maybe you purchased something only to realise that the marketing was much better than the actual product? The idea wasn't the reality? In other words, you didn't get what you expected?]]></description>
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<title>It's OK to Say &quot;I Don't Know&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:59:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Maybe knowledge isn't always power. Maybe sometimes it's a burden. A limitation. A lie.]]></description>
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<title>Why Chasing Acceptance and Approval Can Lead to a Life of Misery</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:59:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Some people spend their lives chasing acceptance and approval but all they find is misery." Does that sound familiar? Have you done a little too much chasing over the years?]]></description>
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<title>The Quickest Way to Create a New Mindset</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:57:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all want to change our internal reality on some level. The way we think, interpret, react, cope, expect, process, interact and communicate. The way we create our own experiences: good and bad. The way we manage our fears. Or, perhaps, don't manage them.]]></description>
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<title>Shifting Our Focus For Better Results</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:29:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In some of my workshops, I run a short activity which provides the audience members with an immediate and practical example of how and where we focus our attention and energy - and the potential consequences. It's a pretty simple process used by plenty of facilitators.]]></description>
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<title>How to Face Your Fears Using Progressive Overload</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:10:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do we begin to address our fears? We do what scares us - that is, we work against emotional and psychological resistance; we lift that mental dumbbell. And then we lift a heavier one. Once we face our fears, we become stronger, we develop new skills, our mindset shifts, the "weight" seems lighter and we move to the next (heavier) dumbbell on the rack.]]></description>
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<title>When Was the Last Time You Really Questioned Your Beliefs?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:47:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So what are your core beliefs and where did they come from? Did you choose them consciously? Did they choose you? Did you simply adopt them from someone else? What are they based on? Do they empower you or hold you back?]]></description>
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<title>Ten Strategies For Success</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:23:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you're serious about creating lasting and significant change in your world - as opposed to merely thinking and talking about it for another year - there are a few things you might want to do in order to help make those intentions a reality. Know what success is. If you don't know what success is (for you), how can you possibly create it? ]]></description>
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<title>25 Things You Blokes (Probably) Won't Hear From Your Lady</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:20:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Okay, here we go blokes ... words you will never hear from your lady. For those of us who like to laugh at ourselves without finding reason to get all offended and precious - which seems to be very popular these days.
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<title>In Pursuit of the Body Beautiful</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:21:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recently I caught up with the very lovely Loretta Watson. Loretta is one of Australia's elite "Figure" competitors and I thought it might be interesting for her and I (and you) to have a casual chat about her habit. You know - the one where she stands on a stage in front of a big crowd, under bright lights wearing a postage stamp. Yep, that one.]]></description>
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<title>Functionally Dysfunctional</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:10:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I spent some time with a bloke who wants to shift his life focus, change his career and begin doing some work with people who are struggling with certain challenges in their world. Over the last year he has had a few significant experiences which have given him a different perspective on life, a better understanding of certain things and a much greater level of awareness, consciousness and empathy for other people; all good things.]]></description>
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<title>Instinctive Intelligence - Knowing Without Thinking</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:13:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Over the years I have often marvelled at how animals just 'know stuff'. As a kid I remember watching a news story about a dog who fell off the back of a truck without his owner realising what had happened for quite some time. After spending the best part of a day looking for his companion (the owner was on an interstate trip), the devastated man headed back home to share the tragic news with his wife and kids.]]></description>
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<title>The Pseudo Olympian</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:13:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Years ago I trained a lady for a period of eight weeks leading up to her wedding. She lost about twelve kilos (26.5 lbs) during that time. Over the eight weeks I continually emphasised the need for her new pre-wedding behaviours to become life-long habits rather than some temporary phase.]]></description>
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<title>The Reactive Life</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:13:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The simple truth is that by not making a decision, we are making a decision. We are choosing to do nothing. Choosing to put our head in the sand. Choosing to live a reactive rather than proactive existence.]]></description>
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<title>Don't Always Believe the Science</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:11:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To say that a person should weigh a certain amount because they are so many inches tall is not only misleading but potentially dangerous. Stupid in fact. At best, these charts are vague indicators or guides of what may be a healthy weight range for some individuals.]]></description>
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<title>How to Smoke Fifty Cigarettes a Day and Be Healthy</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:29:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Old Artist. The other night I was watching television with great interest as a journalist interviewed a ninety year-old bloke who still runs his own business, is sharp as a tack and as productive, funny, creative and happy as ever. He is an artist who sculpts, draws and paints and with the help of his young (sixty five year-old) wife, manages his own successful commercial art gallery. He also teaches (and entertains) budding Picassos.]]></description>
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<title>In Search Of The Twenty Five Hour Day</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:09:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many of us live under the illusion that creating positive change in our world is in fact largely about the right timing. I'm here to tell you that for the most part, it ain't. It's way more about attitude, choices and behaviour than it will ever be about timing (i.e. spending forever waiting for the 'ideal' time). ]]></description>
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<title>How To Change Your Mindset From Optional To Non Negotiable</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 15:01:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Q. Why does the mother run into the burning building with no hesitation to save her child? A. Because in her mind there is no other option. No brainer. So why don't we treat all aspects of our lives with the same non-negotiable thinking.]]></description>
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<title>What's Your Brand?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:07:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I recently spoke at a conference with a guy who (I was informed) gets paid over $15,000 for his forty five minute presentation. Was he good? Yep. Was he mind-blowingly incredible? Nope. Was he fifteen times better than the $1,000 speaker? Nope. Then why did that company pay so much for his services? Because they were buying a brand that's why. A name. A reputation.]]></description>
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<title>A Lesson About Learning</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:27:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Memorizing a whole bunch of stuff ain't learning; that's memorizing. A nice party trick but ain't gonna change your reality for the better. Some people recite motivational crap all day, but they don't actually live it. Therefore, they haven't learned. ]]></description>
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<title>So Educated, But So Stupid</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:08:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In case you haven't been told, as a group numbering about six billion or so, we're not really travelling that well. We're either fat or starving, we're addicted to drugs, we spend more than we earn and we kill each other for a cause.]]></description>
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<title>Synopsis Of An Annoyer</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:20:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ever met the creepy, unattractive, socially inept, smelly, forty-something guy who constantly feels the need to express his alpha-male-ness (aka insecurity) and to offer himself (I feel queasy just writing that!) to every woman within a ten mile radius - no matter how disinterested, or even repulsed they are.]]></description>
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<title>Potential for Greatness</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:06:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Happy to be here.    At the risk of sounding a little arrogant, I gotta say, my life is great. Overall, I'm pretty darn content. Not in a smug way, just in a happy-to-be-here kinda way.]]></description>
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<title>You Can't Handle the Truth!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:01:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The following is an extract from one of my fave movies - A Few Good Men (or as it's known here in Australia - Three Grouse Blokes):    Jessep (Jack): "You want answers?"    Kaffee (Tom): "I think I'm entitled to them."    Jessep: "You want answers?]]></description>
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<title>The Sixty One Year Old Skater Dude</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:35:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["I love to skate and I hate it how people stop doing fun stuff because they've reached a certain age. Old people bore me. There seems to be the list of 'socially acceptable' activities for anyone over fifty and let's just say that nothing on the list really appeals to me!"]]></description>
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<title>Why We Don't Get The Job Done</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:11:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The problem is that we've been telling ourselves the very same thing (I'll change soon) for years. And we are indeed champions at explaining our lack of commitment and results; it's too hot, it's too cold, it's too late, it's too early, my back is playing up, it's a timing thing, an opportunity thing, a money thing, a travel thing...]]></description>
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<title>The Fifty Success Habits</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:53:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So I thought that I might write a quick review of every self-help book ever written all right here in this one little post. Simple enough.]]></description>
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<title>Motivational Speaking 101</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:02:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While I don't claim to be (anywhere near) the best Personal Development Speaker in the world, if you were to Google the search term Motivational Speaker you would typically find that my name usually comes out somewhere near the very top of the list of about two million matches. Now, let me quickly add that this fact has pretty much nothing to do with my speaking skills or my profile, and everything to do with Johnnie's ability to do what he does with those amazing tech skills of his. I don't really understand how he does it, but I do...]]></description>
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<title>Mind of a Teacher, Heart of a Student</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:48:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Over the last week I have received a bunch of emails and comments asking me about my trip and what I've learned and enjoyed hanging out with some of the best educators, speakers, writers and pioneers in the world of fitness and health. And I mean literally the world; these people flew in to Colorado from all over the globe to be part of this amazing conference created and facilitated by PTontheNet (the world's largest online education resource for fitness professionals). I had the privilege of opening the conference and then being treated to two days of information, inspiration and ...]]></description>
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<title>The Communication Situation</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:53:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I think most of us would agree that on a practical, day-to-day level the most important life skill is communication. However, when we take a look around we discover that:]]></description>
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<title>To Adapt Or Not To Adapt, That Is The Question</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:43:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For many people, their inability to adapt and to deal with change is what stops them from fulfilling their potential and living their best life. They are creatures of habit (bad habit) and they are largely controlled by fear.]]></description>
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<title>Just Another Life</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:44:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought about your funeral? I have. Mine that is, not yours. Sometimes I wonder what it will be like. Who will be there, what they will say. Good stuff or bad? Will it be a sad or happy occasion? Will there be three people or three thousand? Or fifty perhaps? ]]></description>
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<title>The Difference Between Talking and Communicating</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:18:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Without doubt, communication is the single most important life skill, yet amazingly, the majority of us don't consciously work at developing it. Better communication equals better relationships, and better relationships equals a better life. So why wouldn't we work at it?]]></description>
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<title>Creating Your Own Performance Diary</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:29:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Performance Diaries are without doubt, one of the most valuable, practical and convenient 'commitment' tools available to us. Used the right way, they can be the difference between ignorance and education, doing or not doing and ultimately, success or failure.]]></description>
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<title>How to Operate a Human</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:03:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the many ironies of our world is that the most intricate, amazing and complex 'machine' in existence (the human body), comes with no instruction manual. "Here yer go Mr and Mrs Harper; one loud, screaming, kinda slimy small human - enjoy that. Er, him. I know you probably have lots of questions, but just take him home; you'll figure it out. You've got a while."]]></description>
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<title>Why New Years Resolutions are Stupid</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:40:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yep, it's that time of the year again. The time when we all tell ourselves (and everyone within earshot) just how dramatically our life is about to change. Of course it is. Of course we do. Just like we did the last twenty New Year's eves. ]]></description>
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<title>Beyond the Adrenaline Rush - The Self-Help Danger Zone</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:25:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Self-Help Danger Zone; the place where dreams are destroyed or realised, where momentum is gained or lost, and where we grow, learn and adapt, or crawl back to our destructive old ways. In the course of my work (helping people create their best life), there's a place I'm always educating and warning my charges about. It's that place beyond the adrenaline rush.]]></description>
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<title>A Tough-Love Lesson From Mr Nasty Pants</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:40:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The truth is, more often than not we don't know how we are perceived by others. We think we do, but we don't. We've all met the guy who thinks he's hilarious, while everyone else thinks he's annoying. And the shy woman who's perceived as a snob by her colleagues. ]]></description>
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<title>Living in Fat City</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/878285</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:44:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm amused by those who suggest that obesity is primarily an education problem, when in reality, it is (for the majority) a self-control problem. Self control: yes, that crazy, outdated notion I've spoken of many times before. We are bombarded with education but we choose not to learn.]]></description>
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<title>The Muffin-Top Pioneer</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/874872</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:53:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's the late seventies. I'm thirteen years old. I'm a tank. Gorgeous, but a tank. I weigh the best part of 90 kilos (200lbs) and it's school swimming sports day. Yippee. I'd rather hit myself in the head with a hammer, but here I am. I don't want to swim but I have no option; it's compulsory. Private school rules. Everyone is put into a swimming section. Everyone races. I am in the remedial section; the home of the geek, the uncoordinated and the fat.]]></description>
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<title>Donald Trump - The One From The Fishing Store</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:21:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The irony of 'wealth' is that some of the people with the most money are the poorest, and some with virtually nothing are wealthy beyond comprehension. Depends on how we define wealth doesn't it?]]></description>
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<title>The Broccoli Principle</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:47:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even as a teenager I learned that, as a rule, the stuff which tasted great was bad for me, and the stuff which tasted like complete crap, was gonna do me the most good. What a ridiculous notion. What kinda weird-ass, nasty prank is that to play on a fat food-loving kid? So not fair. So not a lesson that I wanted to learn. "Whaddaya mean, donuts don't have the same nutritional value as vegetables? Let me see that research paper."]]></description>
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<title>Single? What's WRONG with Him?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:57:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's like they have a picture in their mind of me sitting at home every night in my underwear, in a room lit by candles, eating meatloaf flavoured ice-cream from a paper plate, with my pet rat Eugene on my shoulder, my feet in one of those foot spas, a little 'Enya' playing in the background and some strategically placed cushions with images of my ex-girlfriends embroidered on them, lying around the room.]]></description>
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<title>Mr Misery Guts</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:52:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I've learned that an incredible day is not about fate, destiny, chance or luck, but about the mindset I take into every situation, every conversation, every experience. Last night I was out the front of my house cleaning my motorbike when Mr Misery Guts (a pet name I've given him) from a few doors down, happened along.]]></description>
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<title>Ho, Ho, Ho Into Those Christmas Calories</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:40:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How dare I suggest that we include some healthier options on our Christmas menu and that maybe we don't continue eating until we explode. What am I thinking? Apparently, the point of Christmas is food. You know that whole 'three wise men, the manger, Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus' thing? Well, turns out that the real meaning of Christmas is to see how much pleasure we can give ourselves via an inordinate amount of calories. Who'da thought?]]></description>
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<title>Great Body - Pity About the Rest</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:17:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Having spent twenty five years owning and running gyms and helping people create their best body has taught me many (many, many) lessons and reinforced many pre-existing beliefs. Lessons that some people desperately need to learn.]]></description>
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<title>The Thief of Time</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:11:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As I stand there in my fat body, looking at my broken car, with the words of my angry boss ringing in my ear, I wonder what became of the young enthusiastic man with the dreams, the plans and the talent. I wonder where the years have gone. I walk back to the mirror. I stare some more. Humiliated. Devastated. Broken. This wasn't my plan.]]></description>
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<title>Personal Development - A Dog's Life</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/849620</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:15:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I reckon the Boss should lie in the sun with me. And chew his foot for a while. It's relaxing. It might help with his stress. Whatever that is.]]></description>
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<title>Personal Development - Back to Basics</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:52:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In my work, I use an effective step-by-step process when I'm coaching people to help them create their best life. It ain't rocket science but it works.]]></description>
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<title>Opinion-Itis - What Do You Think I Should Think?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/841541</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:42:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ever noticed how some people seem to be allergic to having their own opinion? I call this condition Opinion-itis.  We see it in families, friendships, the work place, schools, the media, sporting clubs, political parties... pretty much everywhere. Well maybe they do have an opinion, but for whatever reason... they don't or won't share it.  Sure, there are times to share and times not to share an opinion. And yes, we need to exercise wisdom, timing and care with how and when we express our thoughts and ideas, but there comes a point (you've been there) when we have to speak our mind no matter how comfortable, easy, convenient or popular that opinion will be. If we don't, we start to lose our identity, our individuality; us. We continue to be a pawn in someone else's game. A 'yes' man. Woman.]]></description>
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<title>Personal Development Lies</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/841234</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/841234</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:17:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Too many 'wanna-be experts' espouse messages that are misleading, unrealistic, impractical and potentially dangerous. Good for selling books, not so good for creating real-life results... forever change. In a culture which is desperate for a shortcut (we are the quick-fix generation) it's easy to sell lies because so many of us don't wanna buy the truth... it's not nearly as attractive. We spend millions every day on weight-loss products because we get sucked in by terms like 'quick, easy, fast and painless'... and we continue to get fatter... because all that crap doesn't work!!]]></description>
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<title>Boring Old Farts</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/834060</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/834060</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:53:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lately I feel like I've spent far too much time with, and around, the fun police... those grumpy, judgemental, opinionated old farts who peer down their nose at anyone who isn't like them; mind-numbingly boring, miserable and predictable. They even justify their unpleasant disposition....  "You wouldn't understand adversity if it hit you on the head... back in my day.."]]></description>
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<title>Meeting Lance Armstrong</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/830632</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/830632</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:59:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was sitting at the lights lost in my own thoughts when all of a sudden I became aware of a presence... no, not a poltergeist; a bloke on a mountain bike had pulled up along side me. Three feet away. Coulda touched him.  Game face on... waiting for the green signal. Like an Olympian waiting for the starters gun. Focused. Committed. And dressed atrociously.]]></description>
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<title>Managing Our Emotional Energy</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/821298</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/821298</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:26:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A modern Zombie; going through 'the motions' of life. You've seen it; people who seem to have their 'life-force' drained out of them. Maybe at times you are that 'people'. Er, person. Simulated living... looks like living, but isn't.]]></description>
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<title>Pringles For Breakfast</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/806111</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:03:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why does someone who weighs one forty kgs (300lbs) and is just over five foot tall choose a can of Pringles and a coke for breakfast? 
My first interesting lesson for the day was one in decision making.]]></description>
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<title>The Mythical 'Slim Zone'</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/798175</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:43:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Over the years I have taken thousands of 'before' photos of people (front, side and rear) before they start their weight-loss/fitness endeavour.  Invariably they are stunned when they see the pictures.  Why are they so shocked?  Because when it comes to their body, they live in some alternative reality; The Slim Zone.  The one where they look forty pounds lighter.]]></description>
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<title>Be the Change</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/796424</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/796424</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:24:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Okay, here comes one of those wise old proverbs... it's a little philosophical so pay attention "Stop wasting your life on crap you can't change". (Deep I know).]]></description>
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<title>Quick-Fix Delusion</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/788029</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/788029</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:42:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The irony of the quick fix... is that it fixes nothing. We were gonna go with... 'the fat, dysfunctional, drug-using, alcohol-abusing, responsibility-avoiding, excuse-making, time-wasting, frustrated, pain-in-the-ass generation'... but it was too long and we couldn't fit it on our business cards.]]></description>
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<title>The old 'Prized Possession in the Shoe' Trick</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/759050</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/759050</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:17:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you've lost something which is very important to you. Very. A prized, irreplaceable possession.]]></description>
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<title>What is the Meaning of Life</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/788099</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:30:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So in an age when space travel is possible, phones are now mobile computers and Michael Jackson can turn himself into some weird version of Elizabeth Taylor, surely I can figure out the meaning of life. Or not.]]></description>
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<title>The Computer Junkie's Guide to Fitness</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:46:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A practical seven minute workout for computer junkies that will improve your overall level of fitness and function and help you shed some fat at the same time.

You see, there are several Craigs.
There's a scary thought.]]></description>
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<title>The Fat Blogger</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:48:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentleman of the jury, it is my contention that the blogoshpere is in fact a dangerous place to live. Bad for one's physical health. Nice place to visit... but not to inhabit. My daily energy expenditure is now somewhere behind that of the dugong and the hibernating bear.]]></description>
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<title>Exploring Life's Most Important Skill</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:11:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While some of us are clever and articulate, we're also crap communicators (at least in some situations and circumstances). Don't assume that a large vocabulary or eloquent speech equates to effective communication.]]></description>
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<title>Excusinator 4000 Proven Treatment For Excuse-ology</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:26:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even though a very effective treatment (a topical cream to be rubbed on the head of Excuse-ology patients) was developed in the late seventies, unfortunately it proved to make little impact as: 1) Most sufferers wouldn't acknowledge that they needed treatment and 2) They always found an excuse to avoid using the medication.]]></description>
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<title>You can't get to the fridge if you don't get off the couch</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:51:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Momentum is that irresistible force that keeps us doing what we need to do and moving in the right direction, irrespective of how we're 'feeling' on a given day. The greater the momentum we create... the greater our chance of success.]]></description>
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<title>'Happiness 101' Now Taught In Numerous Colleges And Graduate Schools Around The US</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:07:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It seems that despite all our stuff (resources, technology, money, education, toys) we're no happier... in fact overall, probably less happy. Apparently, it's now something we need to teach. We're losing (or have lost) the skill to be happy.]]></description>
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<title>The Ancient Art Of COMPLICATION</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:48:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(1) Body-fat is essentially stored energy (calories). (2) If you expend more than you put in, you'll be in energy deficit. (3) If you're in deficit your body will have to 'find' some energy from somewhere. (4) It will find it on your ass (or close by). (5) If you are in energy deficit of 500 calories per day (a coke and a cookie), you'll lose about one pound (0.4kg) of fat per week.  Not complicated at all.]]></description>
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<title>Freak University - Part 1</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:55:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's seven forty five Saturday morning and I am doing my best to stay in my current state of being; unconscious, hung-over, stationary, comfortable, horizontal. Unfortunately for me, something or as it would turn out, someone, is destroying my tranquility with incessant thumping on my front door. Every thump is accompanied by a sharp stabbing pain behind my left eye.  All of a sudden I'm re-thinking my whole 'anti-gun' stance.]]></description>
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<title>Wasting Time at the Gyme</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:25:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Creating your best body needs to be a strategic, intelligent process... and following some generic training program ripped out of page seventy-two of 'Meatheads R Us' probably ain't gonna do it for you. This doesn't mean you need to be obsessive about your training... it's simply means train smart.]]></description>
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<title>Celebrate the Weirdo</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:28:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While all the other 'normal' kids were ploughing up and down the pool with their skinny ten year-old bodies, I was splashing around in my big-ass T-shirt... to hide my numerous rolls. Knowing that they would never realise that I was obese if I was wearing my magic 'fat-hiding T-shirt'. Of course.]]></description>
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