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<title>Gary Ryan Blair - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gary Ryan Blair is known throughout the world as The Goals Guy - GoalsGuy.com. He helps business owners, corporate executives and sales professionals manage their time, set their priorities, and stay focused so they can achieve their goals, grow their business, and be more successful. 

His handbooks, training programs and coaching services are used by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 and over 4,000,000 people worldwide. 

Gary can be reached for speech and media requests at 877-462-5748 or by sending an email to Gary@GoalsGuy.com]]></description>
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<title>The Benefits of Planning</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:35:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A well-defined plan properly executed is your meal ticket to success. You significantly increase the odds of success in any endeavor if you know who you are, what you want, where you are going, how you will get there, and what you will do once you arrive.   What makes it possible for a casino to turn a profit? Do the odds favor the house or the gambler?  ]]></description>
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<title>Keep Score</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:23:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I enjoy golf and find great pleasure competing with friends and business associates. Often times when playing in a tournament, a member-guest competition, or maybe just an outing, I find myself wondering where I stand against the field?  Am I and my partner leading? Hopelessly out of it? Would a couple of birdies coming down the homestretch get us on the leader board? ]]></description>
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<title>There is Only One Reality</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Death and taxes are not the only guarantees in life: Reality counts as well. Reality is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  Deny reality, and you will soon discover that life is a game of truth or consequences.]]></description>
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<title>Think Global</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:45:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Globalization has revolutionized the world of business. It has simultaneously created the imperative for companies to internationalize their competitive strategies and the means to do so.]]></description>
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<title>Think Like an Entrepreneur!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:56:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There was a time when being the biggest, most experienced corporate
kid on the block guaranteed success and dominance. However, in the
new economy, organizations that lack the commitment and capacity
for leveraging size and experience strategically will see these
attributes as vices instead of virtues.]]></description>
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<title>The REAL Weapons of Mass Destruction</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:08:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An increasing worldwide fear is that we will one day face the threat of weapons of mass destruction. Such weapons include biological, chemical, nuclear and radiological devices, and range from the silent threat of a poison gas attack to a cataclysmic nuclear explosion.]]></description>
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<title>Take Action On Your Goals</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:38:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The odds that you'll succeed without taking action are about the same as winning the lottery without buying a ticket!  For those times when you feel trapped, stressed, or in a prison of your own making, take purposeful action. It's your Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card!]]></description>
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<title>The Power of Choice</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:01:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every choice must have a purpose- to move you closer to your goals!  As your birthright you are given your greatest power - the power to choose. Every moment offers you a choice: to exercise this power by setting and holding a direction or to veer off course. Every choice counts! There are no insignificant choices, no neutral actions. Even the smallest gesture has a consequence, leading you toward or away from your goals.]]></description>
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<title>Speed it Up</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:53:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Confronted with a constantly shifting array of customers, competitors, strategic alliances, and market volatility, the only hope for survival and prosperity lies in developing the ability to move and change at least as rapidly as your competitive environment. Since it's become exceedingly difficult to see more than a few months into the future in most industries, you have but two alternatives to bankruptcy or unemployment.]]></description>
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<title>What Will You Leave Behind?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We all begin life at GO, and all roads lead to a final rendezvous;
the difference is what we do en route. Paths chosen, actions taken,
and a host of decisions made lead ultimately to a unique legacy.

It's non-negotiable: You will leave a legacy. The question is not
whether you'll leave a legacy but what legacy you will leave.]]></description>
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<title>Welcome the &quot;F&quot; Word! (Failure)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:12:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The dreaded "F" word-failure-is so important... yet so misunderstood.  The key to understanding how to succeed rests on knowing a thing or two about the importance of failure. Failure is both the "teacher's pet" and the "black sheep" of the family of success!]]></description>
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<title>Goal Setting - Write Down Your Goals!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Like umbrellas and pens, unwritten goals almost always end in loss!

Written   goals are catalysts, transforming agents for success and
achievement. You will achieve far greater and more consistent results
when you take the time to write down your goals.]]></description>
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<title>Goals Are Essential to Success</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 11:32:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your heart, lungs and brain are vital to your existence. Without
them, you're extinct. Goals serve much the same purpose. Consider
them the pulse of your life. Without goals you're toast - road kill -
history!]]></description>
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<title>Create a Personal Strategic Plan</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:37:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You can significantly increase the odds of success in any endeavor, if you know who you are, what you want, where you are going, how you will get there, and what you will do once you arrive. The best way to predict your future is to create it. Therefore, a well-defined personal strategic plan, properly executed, is your meal ticket to success. Learn how to create yours and live the life you've always imagined.
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<title>How to Make New Year Resolutions That Work</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:43:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Success is not an accident, it begins with a well-conceived plan. You can and will achieve more in the next year than you have in the past ten with a disciplined plan of action. By investing your efforts in these New Years Resolution guidelines, you give yourself a launch pad for starting your new year and your new life. Happy New Year!]]></description>
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<title>Pay Attention to Details</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:23:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The magic behind every outstanding performance, exceptional meal, fine piece of furniture, jewelry, or clothing is always found in the smallest of details. Those who enjoy the greatest success understand that it takes hundreds of small, seemingly insignificant details repeated perfectly day in and day out to create an unforgettably excellent experience. The people who deliver superior results are not simply doing more of the same things everyone else does; they are doing better things. Very small differences, consistently practiced, produce superior results.]]></description>
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<title>Everything Counts</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:23:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts - this is the golden rule of excellence.]]></description>
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<title>Goal Setting for Youth: Ideas for Parents, Teachers, and Coaches</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:16:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Teaching kids and teens how they can create their futures is a powerful and critical character building attribute. Goals education gives them the tools needed for designing a productive life, of benefit to themselves, their community, our country, and for future generations as well. ]]></description>
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<title>Got Goals?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:14:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Will goal-setting ever become non-essential? If history is any judge, the answer is a resounding no. Goal setting is a non-negotiable responsibility for those who seek success and for everyone who wants to continue to develop personally and professionally. Goal setting is a responsibility that counts and this article explains why!]]></description>
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<title>The History of New Years Resolutions</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:09:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New Year's is the only holiday that celebrates the passage of time. Perhaps that's why we become introspective. Inevitably, that introspection turns to thoughts of self-improvement and the annual ritual of making resolutions, which offer the first of many important tools for remaking ourselves. In this message, you'll learn the history and global importance of New Years Resolutions.]]></description>
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<title>The Discipline of Self-Discipline</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:56:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Remember this absolute rule of discipline; "If you don't discipline yourself, you are sure to be disciplined by others". Don't believe me, huh? Chew on this, run up your credit cards real high, be late on a few payments and see how quickly those companies are to teach you a thing or two about discipline.]]></description>
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<title>Healthy Body - Healthy Mind!</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:52:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Good health means having the capacity to live life fully
and being able to experience the best that life has to offer. It
means having vigor and energy. It is having the ability to pursue your dreams with the confidence that you will be able to accomplish them.
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