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		<title>Making the Possible Probable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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When you awake each morning, the day presents you with literally thousands of possibilities. Human existence is chocked full of possibilities. But the important questions is, what is probable? And the more important question is, how can you make the right possible things probable &#8211; how can you select the right [...]]]></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>
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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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		<title>Adults in Wonderland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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Doggerel you say? Incoherent mutterings. Nothing much to pay attention to. Foolish person &#8211; there is all of life &#8211; the whole deep meaning of it &#8211; in the fart of a flea. You just have to learn how to listen!
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There is no freedom like being able to say what you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding a Mirror &#8211; Realizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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We look in them every day &#8211; and use them as metaphors for achieving deeper self-knowledge. Every person we meet is one and what they show us can be far more valuable than any highly polished surface.
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I won&#8217;t sugarcoat it &#8211; mentoring can bring some very aggravating experiences. Sometimes it takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Affairs and Investors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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Understanding where the other person is coming from radically increases the probability that you will understand what they are trying to say to you.
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I recently met with a young entrepreneur &#8211; let&#8217;s call him X &#8211; well, to be technically accurate, a wannabe entrepreneur &#8211; he had never successfully built a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Couldn&#8217;t Bring Himself &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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The deer in the headlights &#8211; we all know the story &#8211; the car rounds the bend on a dark night &#8211; the deer stands frozen in the glare and cannot move even as its death approaches. Humans sometmes act this way &#8211; and sometimes with similar consequences.
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Most of my work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving the Ball</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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Sometimes management teams lose focus on the fact that the principal goal of business involves producing increasing revenues. Sometimes they get caught in the trap of incessantly talking about increasing revenue.
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I recently facilitated an all-hands session for a company. We were focusing on the results of an extended process of reorganization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of No Cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
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Have you ever done a favor for someone only to find out that you did them no favor? What to they say about the road to hell? Oh yes &#8211; that it is paved with good intentions.
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About a quarter of my work is with companies that have been funded by angel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side of the Coin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
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Self-knowledge is the crucial component of self-improvement. How can you improve what you don&#8217;t understand? Of course, the other side of that coin is &#8216;what you don&#8217;t understand can cause you great harm.
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The Perfectionist: During a recent coaching engagement, I came to realize that a CEO I was working with had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea Change Brings Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II
DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com
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Change is one of those altars that is well worshiped at &#8211; not one of those forgotten gods whose supplicants infrequently visit their shrine. But wanting is not the same as having &#8211; it is sometimes not logical &#8211; but I have found it to be true.
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  One of the [...]]]></description>
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