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		<title>Knowing What Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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It was during one of the first coaching sessions with a new client that the following exchange occurred:


Me: Life is much like that path of a bird through the sky. It leaves no trace. There is only the bird and flight.
Client: So you are saying that your life and mine are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executive Coaching Means Putting Your Key People on Their A-Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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The last decade has seen a major shift in attitude towards executive coaching. Ten years ago the most likely engagement would have been with a client who was having serious problems. Organizations tended to hire executive coaches when one or more of their people was either having or causing serious problems. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving the Rut Means Growing Your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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An old friend was fond of observing the “a person needs to be repotted every few years”. A bit of living has shown me how much wisdom there is in that simple statement. All of us have the same experience at times. We realize that we have settled into a rut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Out of a Rut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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When I was learning to fish, my father’s favorite saying was “that fish is not going to come towards you unless you turn the handle”. He usually said that when I was frozen by the shock of having a big fish on the line. Those of you who fish will understand. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Life as a Work in Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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One of the first steps in my mentoring engagements is to have the client begin to understand that their life is a work in progress. The deeper we get into it, the more detailed that understanding becomes. Then there is the recognition that life is a process which begins at birth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Right Personal Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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Lots of advice is available. The common mantra is ‘get a personal vision’. But the truth is that you already have one. Sure, it may be out of focus and counterproductive. But you do have one. Many would call it your ‘self image’. It is how you decide what you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Coaching &#8211; The Propose of a Compass</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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It&#8217;s not the compass that finds your true north &#8211; you need to find the compass that points to your true north. Short of that, every other compass will send you in the wrong direction.
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Life coaching can bring some of life’s grandest adventures. The issues at stake are often monumental and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apprehension – Fear or Understanding?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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Thinking about the meanings of word can often lead to a better understanding of our view of the world and place in it. I don&#8217;t mean debating the meanings in the dictionary &#8211; I mean discovering which of two definitions you prefer and why. Self-knowledge can be increased by acknowledging linguistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Meaning Without Manufacturing Meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earl R. Smith II
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The human tendency to label &#8211; and call the label the meaning of the thing &#8211; can prevent us from experiencing the world as we find it. Insisting that the meaning of something is what we say it is is rather like shouting loudly at somebody that is trying to tell us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Price of Intemperance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earl R. Smith II
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Socrates observed that &#8216;a life unexamined is not worth living&#8217;. Nowhere is that more true than when we act against our own self-interests and suffer the consequences &#8211; pay the bills for our own rash actions.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s what you do without realizing it that can really mess things up.&#8221;
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