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		<title>Maximize Your Free-time</title>
		<link>http://champsblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/maximize-your-freetime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Jim Mullins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m happy to tell you that I have learned a way to improve my weekends—and it has to do with how I spend Friday nights. I’m not talking about a restaurant, dinner theatre or a sports event. Nor am I referring to backyard grilling or collapsing in my favorite recliner. I’m talking about mowing my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loving Your Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have noticed recently that as our world changes rapidly, problems grow faster as well. On a personal level, I have experienced more and more difficulties over the years. I know it isn’t my imagination; the problems are actually there. You have, without a doubt, become aware of the same thing.
I believe that CHAMPS reframe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Above and Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While researching the art of storytelling in the Middle Ages for a writing assignment, I discovered an article on the subject that had been published in a rare journal. Intrigued by the information its summary promised, I searched several library archives. To my dismay, no one had a copy. Some time later, I related my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make adjustments, not excuses&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the holiday break between semesters of college, I found a job loading 50-pound bags of synthetic fertilizer into train cars. That first day was tough. I stood at the end of a conveyor belt, picked up every other bag and stacked it in the boxcar. Lee, my co-worker—a man probably in his fifties—stood opposite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tip: Celebrate Employee Success&#8211;Publicly!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just the other day, one of our office support staff announced with delight that her daughter had begun to walk. We all smiled, most of us remembering our own children’s first steps. I recall how I would cheer my sons’ early wobbling efforts that usually ended in a fall. We took pictures, phoned grandparents with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team Building Tip: Keep Out Spiders!</title>
		<link>http://champsblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/champs-keep-out-spiders-in-the-workplace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our body’s immune system is a remarkably effective mechanism for maintaining health. It identifies and removes harmful organisms tirelessly, reducing or eliminating our chances of becoming ill. Of course, we all know that it is better to stay well than to recover from a disease because the healing process costs a great deal more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you listening?</title>
		<link>http://champsblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/are-you-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My high school classmates and I filed into the U.S. History class. The teacher called us to order and began handing out an exam. It was test day. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said emphatically, “read the entire set of exam questions before answering them.”
Like any good student, I began reading each question thoroughly and answering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Things Done</title>
		<link>http://champsblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/getting-things-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Michael Jordan, Larry the Cable Guy, and Herb Kelleher have in common? They all believe in finishing projects. I heard the former head of Southwest Airlines say on a TV interview that the sole definition of a leader was someone who gets things done. Larry the Cable Guy is known for saying “Get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Morning to You! (Positivity)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 22:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard it first from my mother, then from my teachers, then from my coaches, and now from TV nutritionists.  &#8220;Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.&#8221;  A variation has been &#8220;Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.&#8221; Apparently, loading our bodies up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Difficult Journeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 22:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day had been a long one, and I relaxed gratefully in a comfortable chair as I watched the six o’clock news. Suddenly, rubble-filled scenes panned across the screen. I stared riveted at leveled buildings, uprooted trees and crumpled vehicles thrown far from their driveways. A tornado had struck a small town, and life would [...]]]></description>
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