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<description><![CDATA[Dr. Virginia Bola is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, a vocational expert, a social commentator and a self-admitted diet fanatic. After 20 years of owning a vocational rehabilitation company, she is now Manager of Clinical Operations for a major MBHO. She has authored numerous articles on the psychology of weight control, the emotional correlates of unemployment and job search, social issues, politics, and the graying of America. Her latest book, completed in June, 2005,is Diet With An Attitude: A Weight Loss Workbook, an interactive manual providing the reader with personal guidance and encouragement in the battle to lose weight. It takes ... ]]></description>
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<title>Why Terrorists Are Not Typical Mass Murderers</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:43:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Terrorists don't win when they kill people - murders happen all the time. They win when we become so terrified that we are willing to trade anything for a sense of security. In the 1930s, people were so tired of the uncertainties and confusion of democracy that they handed themselves over to fascists who brought order, calm, and made the trains run on time. ]]></description>
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<title>Katrina: The Lessons Unlearned</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:22:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The lessons of Katrina were clear and simple: any response must be expeditious or it is worthless. Despite the hundred of stump speeches and the endless public posturing, the government has again proved to be disorganized and helpless in the face of a humanitarian threat.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment: Keep Yourself Healthy</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:58:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A lingering sub-clinical level of depression is common for the unemployed, especially when the time period out of work is prolonged. Worry, frustration and guilt take a toll on all of us: they sap our energy and our enthusiasm, and eventually make us sick.]]></description>
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<title>Successful Job Search: Don't Eliminate Yourself Prematurely</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:57:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Job announcements are written to include everything the employer would like to have, not necessarily what is absolutely required. If you have at least a few of the skills listed, apply anyway and let the potential employer, not your own lack of self-confidence, screen you out.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Is The Internet A Viable Alternative To A Job?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:54:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before you invest any money in "get rich" schemes, or get excited about how much you can earn from home, get yourself a "throw-away" address on Yahoo or Hot Mail and join a few groups and safelists. Your bulk inbox (tabbed as spam by your Internet host) will soon be bursting with thousands of emails all promising that this opportunity is the one that can't fail. As you empty the bulk mail without bothering to read it, remember that everyone else is doing the same thing!]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Doldrums: Celebrate Yourself</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:50:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Unemployment can be so emotionally devastating and carries so little positive feedback until you get that one great offer. Giving ourselves little perks along the way, rather than waiting for the final payoff, keeps us more balanced, relaxed, and motivated. Just think: would you continue to play a slot machine with a million dollar jackpot if you didn't get lots of little payoffs along the way?]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment: The First 48 Hours</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:47:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In homicide parlance, the first 48 hours of an investigation are crucial. If something positive is to be found, or the case resolved, it is likely that it will happen before 48 hours have elapsed. No one would suggest that you are most likely to obtain a suitable position within the first 2 days after layoff nor that your chances diminish after that time. However, there are many aspects of unemployment and job search that need to be addressed as quickly as possible in order to develop a situation optimally organized for your eventual success.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment: Become Your Own Job Coach</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:44:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Try reframing your perspective and instead of looking at yourself as an unemployed applicant, think of yourself as a professional job coach. Your mission is to assist someone in finding work. Luckily, you have only one client to devote your time and effort to: YOU. ]]></description>
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<title>Death Of The Internet: The Duplicate Content Glut</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:42:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Scams are not just the phishing sites, the strident letters from African widows, or the non-existent lottery winnings, they are also the shysters and cheaters who pass off the creations of others as their own and go into a feeding frenzy whenever a new piece of software appears that promises, for a substantial fee, to develop thousands of pages overnight that will generate income without effort and create experts out of neophytes.]]></description>
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<title>Reframe Your Job Interview Approach</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:38:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If at all possible, approach your next employment interview as just one more opportunity for practice. Try to convince yourself that this is not the job of your dreams but an expenditure of time to allow you to watch yourself to learn for future interviews when you really want to receive an offer. The stress will be lower and your performance consequently superior.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Become Your Own Support Group</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:32:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are several national groups that provide support for unemployed workers. They have been quite successful in mitigating the emotional toll of layoff as well as having beneficial effects on job search. Forty Plus and local VA groups are among the best. If none are available, start your own!]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Make Time For Me</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:30:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So much to do, so little time, is a constant refrain heard from those seeking work. Everyone gives lots of advice (including me): send out resumes, apply on the Internet, read the Classified, go to job fairs, and network, network, network. Some of us become so overwhelmed with all that we need to do that we can't figure out where to start so end up doing nothing at all.]]></description>
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<title>Successful Job Search: Momma Said There'd Be Days Like This-</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:28:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You're happily humming along, religiously seeking work on a daily basis, feeling positive and confident and enthusiastic. Then one day you wake up and can't summon the energy to get out of bed. The sun may be shining but suddenly your world is gray and bleak. It seems that nothing you are doing is getting you where you want to go and you just don't have the inner strength to keep going.]]></description>
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<title>Politics: Creating An Unsafe World</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:27:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What have we created - a more unstable, troubled, and violence-prone world; an earth that shudders at the armed convulsions racing across its brittle, fragile surface. From the world's model of a democracy forged out of the wilderness and renowned for its desire for peace, prosperity, and humanity, we have become the hated face of the enemy, an imperialistic throwback to the 19th Century. We have become the all-powerful but hated Rome of the ancient world.]]></description>
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<title>Prolonged Unemployment: Reconnecting With The Labor Market</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:23:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you have been unemployed for an extended period of time, you may find that when you apply for one of the positions now appearing, that you are competing with individuals who are either still working but looking to make a change, or with others who have been working until very recently. From experience, you know that potential employers are going to look at your long period of unemployment with a jaundiced eye.]]></description>
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<title>Employment Interviewing: Follow Instructions</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:16:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[No employer wants to hire someone who can't take the time to read directions. Even if a position requires management or leadership qualities, duties are still performed within set company procedures and a defined corporate culture. Show your abilities throughout the application process by reading the fine print before jumping in.]]></description>
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<title>9/11: The Psychological Fallout</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:15:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are not enough airplanes in the universe to blow up the entire United States. That was never anyone's intent. The goal of terror is to change the enemy through the psychology of threats and fear. Each new step we take to modify our lifestyles and our dreams, because of such attacks, moves us further away from the totally free society we built so long and so painfully, and closer to the cultural imprisonment our enemies seek to impose.]]></description>
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<title>Employment Interviewing: Ask For Feedback</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:03:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Often, after an interview is over, we spend days mulling over what the interviewer may have liked or disliked about our background and how well our skills stacked up against the competition. We remember all the details we forgot to bring up and wonder if that was the decisive factor in our not getting an offer (if we got the job, who cares about the interview?)]]></description>
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<title>Weight Loss: The Cheat Codes</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:51:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Trying to lose weight often leads to the same frustration as playing a video game and coming to a point where you can't find a way out without getting more ammunition, or more health, or a bigger gun. No matter what we try, we can't seem to move on to the next level. We hit a plateau and no matter which way we turn or what strategies we use, the scale refuses to budge. For those days that threaten our best laid plans, we need our own diet cheat codes.]]></description>
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<title>Weight Loss: Suicide By Chocolate</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:41:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We weight watchers are so gullible, so na?ve, so desperate for relief from the drudgery and boring routine of a diet, that we clutch at any straw that promises an interruption to our misery. We embrace any concept or substance that will make us human again. We erase our guilt with the sure knowledge that we are only following the dictates of objective science that has proved, so wonderfully, that chocolate is good for us!]]></description>
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<title>Job Layoff: Defusing The Anger</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:58:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Job loss packs an emotional wallop. It is only when the fires of anger have died down that you can start to think rationally about your future.]]></description>
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<title>Job Search Secrets: Living Outside Your Comfort Zone</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:53:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While it is worthwhile to try new techniques before dismissing them out of hand, the best job search strategies in the world only work if they fit your individual style.]]></description>
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<title>Employment Interviewing: Ask For The Job</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:39:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At an interview, ne sure to display unabashed enthusiasm for this position, with this company, at this time.]]></description>
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<title>Job Search Secrets: Make An Organizer</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/212685</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:31:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Creating a central organizer for our activities can help assure that we have a clear understanding of where we've been and what we've done, and provides a private resource chart for on-going contacts and re-contacts.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Jobs and Immigration</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/212677</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:24:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are those positions we keep hearing about that Americans refuse to take such that they must be filled by illegal immigrants?]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Reframing The Pain</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/212683</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:18:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In addition to the anger and fear generated by job loss, there is the total emotional devastation of being figuratively thrown on a pile of human debris.]]></description>
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<title>Job Search Secrets: Chronological vs. Functional Resumes</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:12:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While employers are obviously interested in what you have done in your working life, they also want to know where and when you did it.]]></description>
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<title>Job Seeking Secrets: Recycle Your Job Search</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:06:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you have been out of work for quite a while, you have undoubtedly pursued a standard job search campaign: the unemployment office, newspaper classifieds, job fairs, online resources, agencies, networking, and cold calling.]]></description>
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<title>Internet Marketing: Give Me Quality</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/207262</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:48:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Correct your errors before you intrude on my valuable time. I'm not interested in flawed material tossed at me by a self-satisfied but disrespectful guru.]]></description>
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<title>Internet Marketing: Give Me Something New</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:47:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Give me freshness, variety, and a taste of greatness. I am totally frustrated by the lack of vitality found in the majority of websites.]]></description>
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<title>Internet Marketing: Are You Killing Off Your Customers?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:47:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So what will this article tell you? It will tell the slick sales reps and the marketing mavens and the irrepressible admen what the rest of us are looking for, what we want, what we like, and what we are going to demand.]]></description>
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<title>Internet Marketing: Give Me Good Content</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/207254</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:31:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever considered how much boring, poorly written, superficial, and totally uninteresting stuff there is in those billions of web pages floating in the ether? ]]></description>
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<title>Internet Marketing: Give Me Immediate Gratification</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:20:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As soon as I've paid, or taken you up on a free offer, I want to right click, download, and read. I don't want to have to go into my inbox and click to activate something.]]></description>
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<title>Internet Marketing: Give Me Clear Directions</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/207252</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:17:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Three hours later, I still haven't found what I'm looking for. I yearn for someone to give me clear navigation, letting me know where I've been and where I'm going.]]></description>
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<title>Internet Marketing: Are You Feeding These Customer Demands?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:16:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I wrote this report after thinking about what I, as a typical Internet customer, really want. I hope that it strikes a chord with you also and that much of what I demand overlaps with your own needs.]]></description>
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<title>Internet Marketing: Give Me Something I Can Use</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:07:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Two pages of specific, focused tips are a lot more helpful than endless ramblings about your own success record. Give me tools, not trite homilies.]]></description>
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<title>Internet Marketing: Give Me Follow Up</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 21:02:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I need follow up that answers my unasked questions and helps me make up my mind about whether I really want what you're offering and if your product will really meet my needs.]]></description>
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<title>Tax Pitfalls For An Internet Newbie</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:59:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For those of us new to the Internet, here are some pointers on IRS audits and how vulnerable we are in our naivete.Culled from recent field audit experience!]]></description>
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<title>Turbo Charge Your Love Life: Fantasy</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:53:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sharing our inner fantasies with a trusted partner can inject a new vitality into our relationship and take our intimacy to a higher level.]]></description>
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<title>Turbo Charge Your Love Life: The Value of Change</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:51:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even highly affectionate and loving couples need to occasionally inject novel experiences into their partnership in order to maintain that element of excitement that can be so much more gratifying within the deep trust of a mutually respectful relationship.]]></description>
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<title>Construction vs Destruction, The Battle Continues</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:50:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The reactions to European cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed reflect the not-unexpected negative response of the have-nots who, marginalized and excluded from the world stage, have responded with the childish tantrums and irresponsible destruction their environment has nurtured.  ]]></description>
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<title>Turbo Charge Your Love Life: Innovation</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:37:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To inject some creativity and novelty into our love lives recreates the original excitement between us and rekindles old sparks into a new and brighter flame.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Maintaining Emotional Balance</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:34:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some kind of emotional balance is necessary if we are to stay healthy, maintain our relationships, and be able to effectively function in job search. Reaching such a balance is difficult and made more so by our own inner turmoil. How do we re-establish that balance that will make us feel like our old selves, whole, optimistic, and complete?]]></description>
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<title>Is Losing Weight Worth The Trouble?</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:26:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reframing weight goals and redefining our expectations and definitions of diet success leads to higher self-esteem and makes the probability of continued weight control far more likely.]]></description>
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<title>Turbo Charge Your Love Life: Use All Your Senses</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:22:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After long periods of time in a relationship, we often forget the importance of using all of our senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to keep the original magnetism fresh and vital.]]></description>
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<title>Turbo Charge Your Love Life: Communication</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:21:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Open and frank communication about physical preferences and needs can lead to adaptations in your love life that makes it more gratifying for both you and your partner.]]></description>
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<title>Job Search Secrets: Schedule Employer Callbacks</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:21:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Laying the groundwork for calling back employers after interviews can save much of the anxiety and soul-searching that occurs in the vacuum following an interview.]]></description>
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<title>Turbo Charge Your Love Life - Exploration</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:09:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The differences in our male and female anatomies and our disparate personal relationships with our physical attributes can be fruitfully explored to increase intimacy between partners and improve communication and satisfaction.]]></description>
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<title>Turbo Charge Your Love Life: Appreciation</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:08:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A warm, satisfying, continually stimulating intimate relationship requires attention to our entire relationship, both in and out of bed. Appreciation of each other, expressed often and loudly, can reconnect intimacy with the rest of our lives.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Loss of Power, Loss of Meaning</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:07:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Layoff continue in the United States due to record trade deficits with Asia and outsourcing as well as corporate restructuring to increase the bottom line. Who will empower the victims?]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: The Value of Temporary Work</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:06:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although the job market has improved over the past year, many employers are still reluctant to make a long term commitment to growing their employee rolls until it is clear that a solid economic expansion is underway.

Their solution is often to rely on temporary agencies to provide needed manpower without any precipitous long term commitment. It is estimated, by a well-regarded labor research group, that fully 25% of the jobs created during the past year have been temporary positions! ]]></description>
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<title>Unheard and Unseen: The Plight of America's Homeless Poor</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:59:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is only when disaster strikes a poor area that the country sees the face of poverty. After Andrew in southern Florida and Katrina on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi, the omnipresent television cameras caught a glimpse of what it is like to be poor in America. We saw the faces of the forgotten lined up in the Superdome and had to admit that the national dream of success and a comfortable lifestyle does not extend to everyone.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Life Changing Events</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110876</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:56:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If we are unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, we experience a personal tsunami - a misfortune of devastating proportions that sweeps away our routine lifestyle and forever changes the world we know.]]></description>
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<title>Katrina: Victims For Life?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110955</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110955</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:48:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most of Katrina's victims lived their lives without a single tattered safety net in place, Poor, unskilled, and underemployed, many of these Gulf Coast residents barely stayed afloat even before the flood waters raged in. Now what little they had is gone. They cannot bury their dead and get on with life as the 911 families managed to do - because there is no life left.]]></description>
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<title>Politics: The Corruption Curve</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110945</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110945</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:48:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In a world where hereditary monarchies are an anachronism, the most absolute power lies in the political sphere whether wielded by a military-backed dictator or by those who have been so repeatedly elected to office that they no longer see themselves as public representatives but as entitled oligarchs of a system they control.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Talk To Yourself</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110881</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110881</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:47:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most effective ways to improve your mood and self-esteem is to create your own positive scripts for regular re-reading and study. On those days when you're really down on yourself and think that you're a failure, immersing yourself in a book crammed with notes about your qualities and accomplishments can restore your balance, brighten your spirits, and re-energize you for the rigors of the job hunt.]]></description>
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<title>What Al Qaeda Will Never Understand About The Katrina Disaster</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110959</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110959</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:44:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The terrorists believe that America is powerful because of its military, its technology, and its wealth. They will never understand that the West's power is in its people. They see a politically divided nation but are blind to its unity and cohesiveness as a community. They fail to appreciate that in the face of catastrophe, all Britons are Londoners, and all Americans call New Orleans home.]]></description>
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<title>42 Years Later: Remembering JFK</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110946</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110946</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:41:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As the old saw states, "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." We lost a great and important part of ourselves on that grassy knoll in Dallas. But we are better people for the elation he gave us, the dreams he inspired, and the deep commitment to our fellow man that he generated within us.]]></description>
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<title>Interviewing Skills: Presentation of Your Work History</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110874</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:40:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It may take you some time and self-exploration to identify it, but there are always some aspects of your work history that carry a positive spin. Don't be afraid to dwell on your strong points no matter how unimpressive you fear your prior jobs may seem.]]></description>
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<title>Is The End Near?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110954</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110954</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:35:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[During the past year, hundreds of thousands have perished at the hands of a mother nature run amok. Tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, and torrential rains have served us notice that for all our brilliant achievements, we are not masters of the earth.]]></description>
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<title>Unemployment Blues: Are We Pre-Programmed To Be Productive?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110871</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110871</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:33:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To feel productive seems to be an inherent human need. We feel good about ourselves when we are contributing -- to our own independence, to our family, to our community. Many of the great discoveries, inventions, and explorations of history were made by individuals born to family wealth who had no need to ever lift a finger to ensure adequate self-support. Yet these individuals wanted to contribute to the world in some way and left their homes, worked through the night, and even died trying to be part of some enterprise.]]></description>
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<title>Job Interviews: Prepare Questions In Advance</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110880</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110880</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:28:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An interview almost invariably closes with the potential employer asking if you have any questions. Often an applicant will ask for clarification on benefits -insurance, vacation time, etc. While these are obviously important for you to know, they plant a seed in the interviewer's mind that maybe you are more interested in what the job can do for you than in how you can help the employer.]]></description>
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<title>Maybe We Need An Occasional Disaster!</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110958</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110958</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:25:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Disasters provide us with unique opportunities. It is not that we wish anyone pain but suffering is part of life. When it happens, it brings darkness to its victims but also the chance for fellow men to kindle a new and brighter light that enriches our species, our spirits, and our future.]]></description>
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<title>Job Layoffs: Are We The Problem?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110870</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110870</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:15:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You know, we all talk a good game about keeping job positions in America and stemming the tide of illegal immigrants who pour through our borders at an alarming rate. But are we really willing to change our lifestyle, to put our money where our mouth is?]]></description>
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<title>Job Interviews: Make Yourself An Application Cheat Sheet</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110878</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110878</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:14:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is so easy to sit down to complete an application and suddenly your mind blanks. You can't remember dates or names or telephone numbers. If you have a varied work history, you can't recall which job came first. If you have worked for the same employer for years, you forget when your duties changed or when you received a promotion.]]></description>
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<title>Genuine Help Vs. Exploitation</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110873</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110873</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:13:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A correspondent raises a very interesting question. Is there something inherently exploitative about selling a product or a service to individuals who are in a place of great need and few resources?]]></description>
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<title>Diamonds In The Spam</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110951</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110951</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:12:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are those who turn apoplectic at the receipt of unsolicited commercial email, commonly dubbed spam. These are the same people who receive hundreds of bulk letters addressed to "Occupant" without batting an eye.]]></description>
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<title>Dieting: I Can't Afford To Lose Weight!</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110734</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110734</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:57:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to our weight, our emotions reign supreme. We so desperately want to be more attractive, more respected, and more desirable. We will even subject ourselves to painful and sometimes dangerous surgery to bring our reality closer to our ideal. And we will rob our piggy banks, deplete our bank accounts, and run up our credit cards for anything that promises us a slender future.]]></description>
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<title>Weight: The Thanksgiving Hangover</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110721</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110721</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:52:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all need brief periods of self-indulgence - it's part of the human condition. Expect a setback on your weight loss goals and let that knowledge mitigate your disappointment. Then continue on your diet with the assurance that a special occasion blip doesn't define your future. Enjoy the memories of a family gathering while carefully planning your next week's intake.]]></description>
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<title>Weight: Give Us Something To Shoot For</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110724</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110724</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:50:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We have all seen the new Dove commercials that feature "real" women rather than the impossibly "ideal" models that are usually selected. While the Dove girls are universally attractive and fit, they also reflect different sizes and shapes, designed to represent the average American woman. Is that what we want?]]></description>
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<title>Weight Loss: Tweaking Your Lifestyle</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110726</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110726</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:49:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Despite our national propensity to overeat, under-exercise, and grow steadily heavier and more out of shape, we all yearn to be slender, fit, and attractive. Our culture rewards the thin and the beautiful; look at how we devour celebrity gossip, mesmerized by the looks and energy of our current favorites.

Why the discrepancy between our aspirations and our reality? There are a plethora of reasons, most of which can be traced to the simple fact that life gets in the way.]]></description>
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<title>Diet: Facing Lousy Choices</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110733</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110733</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:33:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you truly want to control your weight, you can do it anywhere. The key is never to eat until you've had a lengthy internal dialog with yourself that forces you into a full awareness of your food intake and then select the lesser of all evils and consume it as slowly as you can manage. Even trapped in the office with nothing more than a killer vending machine, you can turn bleak choices into a self-esteem building triumph.]]></description>
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<title>The Psychology Of Diet Preparation</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110729</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110729</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:29:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We decide to lose weight because of any number of reasons: we don't like the way we look, our clothes don't fit, our health is in danger, our significant other is wandering, our job is at risk, or our kids are embarrassed. We tend to think of weight loss as something that involves only our body; surely no one ever decided to lose weight because of a fat brain or a bloated mind. Yet "we decide" is a mental function. The actual size of the body does not trigger the decision to lose weight, such a choice in made in the brain.]]></description>
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<title>The Diet Bore</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110727</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110727</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:26:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You probably know a diet bore: there's at least one in every office, every group, and at every get-together. It's almost always female - men lose weight too but don't seem to feel the same compulsion to convert the entire world. Blame it on our innate female need to change everyone else.]]></description>
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<title>The Holidays: An Emotional Feast</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110722</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110722</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:26:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why are November and December so toxic to our weight control efforts? Certainly there is abundant food available during the month long celebration from Thanksgiving to New Year. It is the season for non-stop parties and gifts of food from colleagues, friends, family, and customers. But more than just the food, there is a special atmosphere that descends on the Western World at the end of November.]]></description>
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<title>Life Is One Damn Diet After Another</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110732</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110732</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:09:59 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Allowing ourselves to think of a diet as a delineated, restricted period within our total life span is a sure avenue back to tent city (that refers to what we wear, not where we live). To have any hope of attaining permanent weight control, we must approach it as a lifelong effort, watching our intake day after day, week after week, year after year.]]></description>
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<title>Losing Weight At Work: Non-Food Rewards</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/110730</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/110730</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:07:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Food seems to be the perennial favorite for any kind of work reward because it is universally accepted. Some of us (we hard core dieters) may pass on the sweet stuff but usually find something allowable. In a world where two thirds of us are overweight or obese, is there nothing else available as a gift that cuts across all individual interests? Five specific non-food rewards are suggested.]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Do Something Totally Different</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108489</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108489</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:46:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all have favorite things to do and places to go. After a period of time in a relationship, couples fall into the habit of a comfortable routine. Certain activities are crossed off the joint "things to do" list because one partner has no interest or enjoyment in doing it.

It can be refreshing and invigorating to occasionally explore new directions where one partner would like to go. While each of you may pursue separate pastimes such as hunting, fishing, bowling or shopping, or going to an auto race, a rodeo, a fashion show, or a play, think of the enhanced enjoyment that could be obtained if you did such activities together, even if only on an occasional basis.]]></description>
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<title>Happy Relationships: Set Regular Dates</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108511</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108511</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:43:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A return to occasional dating can invigorate a mature relationship ny enhancing anticipation of the special event and allowing partners to interact at the intense level that prevailed during their courtship.]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Surprise Your Partner With A Secret Message</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108502</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108502</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:43:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are all so busy that it's hard to remember, and to find the time, to tell our lovers how much they mean to us. In the beginning it was easy; we so obviously lived just for each other. Even our friends got a little bored with our mutually exclusive focus!

Slowly, life got in the way and responsibilities pulled us in different directions. If we can no longer spend hours exploring each other's world, we can occasionally interject an unexpected message that jolts our partner into a brief moment of focus on us and the relationship between us that is at the core of our existence.]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Work Together On Your Family Tree</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108505</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108505</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:33:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Take a night off from the television sports and the sitcom reruns. Buy a simple family tree chart at the drug store and start to work on filling in the blanks. The first two or three tiers, the most recent generations, are usually pretty easy because they are filled with people you have known all of your life.

Chances are that your partner has never met many of your relatives and vice versa. Take time to describe your family characters to each other. Every family has their oddballs and their black sheep. Enjoy their exploits, knowing that each of us is, at least partially, formed by our own personal histories. ]]></description>
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<title>Happy Relationships: Share Your Day's Activities</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108514</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108514</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:31:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A regular sharing of the day's activities can help partners feel that they are truly participating in each other's lives during the large portion of the time we spend away from our significant others.]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Put Your Disagreements Into Perspective</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108488</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108488</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:23:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even the most passionate and committed relationship has moments when the partners disagree. No two human beings ever see eye-to-eye on everything. Over time, we even disagree with ourselves because our outlook on the world changes as we grow and mature and age.

Ask any couple to list some things their partner does that annoy them and several items are sure to appear. Sometimes our partner does things that are so irritating that we get angry and start arguing. We are socially programmed to be competitive so to try to win the argument, we marshal all the supporting evidence we can find. ]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Create An &quot;Us&quot; Scrapbook or Collage</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108497</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108497</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:21:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The longer you spend together, the more memories you have to share. Don't let the vacation and family pictures mold away in the closet until you're gone and your offspring pore through the boxes, surprised at the treasures they find that they never knew existed.

Make your memories part of your life by collecting everything that evokes special moments together in your exciting journey as a couple.]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Create A Memorable Non-Occasion</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108500</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108500</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:19:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The admen and the marketing mavens have created a cultural expectation around special occasions and calendar events. We are inundated with sales pitches for Christmas, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, New Year, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and any other day they can find that will make us feel that we absolutely have to buy a gift to express our sentiments. 

Dates on the calendar are merely days like any other days. Our relationships are 365 days a year and something this good deserves a celebration at any time and at any place.]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Use Your Car As A Retreat</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108493</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108493</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:04:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Perhaps early in your relationship, one of the few places you could be alone together was in a car. The wonderful thing about a vehicle, whether car, truck, SUV, or motor home, is that it insulates its occupants from the world's intrusions. Alone with your partner in a moving or parked car allows for intimate conversation, touching, or kissing, with nothing but the radio or outside traffic to affect your focus on each other.]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Plan A &quot;Love&quot; Intervention</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108485</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108485</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:52:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The term "intervention" these days usually refers to an
arrangement in which a professional counselor organizes a
meeting of family and friends to confront an individual
about negative actions they have taken which impact everyone
present, usually a drug or alcohol habit.

Why not utilize the framework of an intervention as a
positive experience for someone we care deeply about? Too
often, we only get to publicly acknowledge our love,
respect, and deep appreciation of what knowing them has
meant to our lives in a posthumous memorial eulogy.]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Set Up Your Own Happy Hour</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108480</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108480</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:33:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bars and hotels were remarkably smart when they created the
happy hour. Reduced prices on drinks and free hors d'oevres
quickly filled up tables that formerly sat empty during the
late afternoon doldrums.But the food and drinks are only window dressing for the real pull of happy hour - the chance to unwind from the day,put work behind us, and slowly and comfortably ease back into the world outside our daily grind.

Rather than spend this time with work associates, create
your own wind-down celebration at home.]]></description>
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<title>Super Relationship Tips: Put Your Affection In Writing</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/108478</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/108478</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:27:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In a good relationship, we pay compliments to each other all
the time. We love receiving positive feedback and try to go
out of our way to let our partner know how happy we are to
be with them. But verbal remarks fade so quickly. Make them
last by putting them in writing where they can be revisited
later to re-trigger their positive response.]]></description>
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<title>Refreshing Your Relationship: Spend Quiet Time Together</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/100101</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/100101</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:38:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Finding quiet time together is often difficult for couples in our overly busy lives. The payoff of making the effort is an increased intensity in your special relationship.
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<title>Refreshing Your Relationship: Reviewing Pet Peeves</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/100097</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/100097</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:30:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Confronting the behaviors that bug our partners, with a lot of humor and goodwill, can result in a more honest and tolerant relationship where both positives and negatives can be fully appreciated.
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<title>Refreshing Your Relationship: Give 100%</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/100104</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/100104</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:28:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reframing your commitment to your marriage as 100% rather than 50-50 changes expectations, contributions, and the level of partner satisfaction.
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<title>Refreshing Your Relationship: Scheduling Some Fun Time</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/100098</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/100098</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:02:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Doing something totally different together, just for fun, brings a fresh breeze into our stale daily routines and gives us a much needed recess from a world filled with problems and responsibilities.
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<title>Refreshing Your Relationship: Changing Your Appearance</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/100103</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/100103</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:01:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An occasional change of our looks and our demeanor develops a new awareness in each partner and shakes out the cobwebs from the habits and routine of long time marriages.
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<title>The Ripple Effect of Fear</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/59951</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/59951</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:55:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fear and anxiety generated by becoming unemployed is outlined and techniques to prevent its taking over are provided.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[4 techniques for long term weight control are offered as a means of winning the dieting races.]]></description>
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