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		<title>Get The Easy Place on Amazon.com</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/get-the-easy-place-on-amazon-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A message for the subscribers of The Easy Place blog: You can now get The Easy Place as an ebook on Amazon.com for only 99¢!  It&#8217;s new title is Divinely Aware, but that&#8217;s all that&#8217;s changed, almost all of the original posts are included.  Don&#8217;t have a Kindle?  You can still read it (and other Kindle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1698&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating The Easy Place has been one of the best experiences of my life.   I&#8217;ve loved every bit of it, designing the blog, developing my writing skills, and, yes, I&#8217;ve even loved all that sharing.  It&#8217;s been amazing to expose my tender little places and discover that the world doesn&#8217;t end, that those feelings that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1632&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Do You Need?</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/what-do-you-need/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conquering Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of Being You]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Body]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choosing Wisely]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knowing Yourself]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My coaching clients are used to my question: &#8221;What do you need?&#8221;  They often treat it as a joke (&#8220;I need a new life!&#8221;) but it&#8217;s actually a powerful question that can help us explore what&#8217;s really going on in our lives. We always need something.  Right now I need breakfast, a shower and some anti-itch cream [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1598&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic Question</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/the-magic-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conquering Challenges]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[assumptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choosing Wisely]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[important]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/?p=1546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It used to be that I could get myself into a tizzy over just about anything.  I would rant over poor service, suspected insults (they didn&#8217;t have to be actual insults, a whiff of suspicion was enough for me), getting too little attention, getting too much attention…the list goes on and on.  My equilibrium was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1546&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whoops, I Farted!</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/whoops-i-farted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beliefs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blunders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loving Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a fart.  No matter how hard I tried to ignore it, it was definitely a fart.  I was in my 20&#8242;s and was playing a board game one evening with a couple of high schoolers at the community center where I worked.  And I let a fart slip out.  It wasn&#8217;t particularly loud [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1527&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the World&#8230;Again</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/the-end-of-the-world-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conquering Challenges]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[global destruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[optimism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pessimism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a sophomore in high school my geometry teacher, Mr. Clawson, told us that he believed that within five years the world&#8217;s population would be annihilated in a nuclear war.   You might think that this would have caused some fear, maybe even panic, in a group of 15 year olds, but we all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1492&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friend or Enemy: The Power of Self Talk</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/friend-or-enemy-the-power-of-self-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was studying to become a coach my classmates and I went through a year of basic classes followed by a six-month certification course.  Throughout our basic courses, we heard a lot about Certification. By the end of our basic coursework the information had taken on an ominous tone – there will be lots [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1476&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Life is Hard Try Going Soft</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/when-life-is-hard-try-going-soft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conquering Challenges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know – &#8220;When the going gets tough, the tough get going,&#8221; right?  While the best response to a problem might be getting tough and jumping into the fray, sometimes the &#8220;tough&#8221; would fare better if they reacted to challenges by simply sitting quietly and reflecting on what&#8217;s going on.  Maybe even accepting what&#8217;s going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1458&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rest of the Story</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/the-rest-of-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love & Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Powerful Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judging others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rest of the Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the boss from hell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up there was a radio announcer named Paul Harvey who&#8217;d tell little tales about people who, at first, seemed pretty ordinary.  Then, after a commercial break, with a dramatic flourish Harvey would tell us &#8220;the rest of the story.&#8221;   The subject of his piece would turn out to be someone famous and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1440&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boss From Hell</title>
		<link>http://theeasyplace.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/the-boss-from-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mindye04</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had one of those bosses.  She was the ultimate self-serving tyrant, like a character right out of the movies.  Her primary focus was the advancement of her career and when layoffs loomed at our company, she got even worse, driving her team like a pack of sorry mules in an unremitting effort to look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeasyplace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10260929&amp;post=1426&amp;subd=theeasyplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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