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		<title>Slow and steady can get you somewhere</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/02/06/slow-and-steady-can-get-you-somewhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.&#8221; Ancient Chinese proverb Truth be told, my perfectionist days are not all over&#8230; There are still many times when I slip and realize that I have been, once again, beating myself up for not getting, doing, or knowing something fast enough, well enough, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop trying</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/30/stop-trying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Doing more of what doesn&#8217;t work won&#8217;t make it work any better.&#8221; Charles J. Givens This quote made me laugh. It&#8217;s so true. Yet somehow we seem to forget and we continue to operate on the belief that if we just try harder, even if it&#8217;s not working, we&#8217;ll somehow figure it out and push [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building with thrown bricks</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/23/building-with-thrown-bricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.&#8221; David Brinkley I was speaking with a colleague recently who told her tale of woe about a large project she was heading up at work. She shared a litany of roadblocks and obstacles. &#8220;Every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What hospital janitors can teach us about wisdom</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/19/what-hospital-janitors-can-teach-us-about-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone forwarded me another TED video – they always make me think, and I always want to share them. Barry Schwartz speaks about our loss of wisdom. He argues that our society, businesses, and lives are becoming increasingly stuck on rules and incentives, and that what we need in order to thrive is instead practical, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you get unstuck?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/16/how-do-you-get-unstuck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Achievement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.&#8221; Helen Keller I&#8217;ve noticed a pattern in my life, and sometimes in the lives of others. Something will go &#8220;wrong&#8221; for me, or something will happen that I don&#8217;t like or don&#8217;t want, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No pain, no gain?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/09/no-pain-no-gain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.&#8221; John C. Lilly We have been taught since we were young, &#8220;No pain, no gain.&#8221; I no longer adhere to that approach. The world is filled with organisms that grow without pain and chaos. People grow, cities grow, businesses grow, flowers grow – all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The gym is overcrowded for only a few weeks:  Why make New Year’s resolutions anyway?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/05/the-gym-is-overcrowded-for-only-a-few-weeks-why-make-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year. The weather is (finally) cold, at least here in the mid-Atlantic states. The holiday season is officially over. The gym is more crowded than usual at 5:30 in the morning. A new year is here. Everyone is friendlier during the change of years. People I don’t usually talk with are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your certainty getting in your way?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/02/is-your-certainty-getting-in-your-way/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/02/is-your-certainty-getting-in-your-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chatsworthconsulting.com/?p=2543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It ain&#8217;t what you don&#8217;t know that gets you into trouble. It&#8217;s what you know for sure that just ain&#8217;t so.&#8221; Mark Twain Sometimes I think that nothing gets in our way as much as our certainty. We argue with others incessantly, steadfastly insisting how right we are on a specific topic, even when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our hope for the New Year</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/12/29/our-hope-for-the-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Year is a time of reflection on the past and hope for the future for many of us. As we look back on 2011, all of us at Chatsworth Consulting Group are grateful for all of the wonderful new people that have crossed our paths this year, the new ideas that have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do what Lewis Carroll did before breakfast</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/12/19/do-what-lewis-carroll-did-before-breakfast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.&#8221; Lewis Carroll Our imagination is usually expansive and unstoppable when we&#8217;re young, and then, bit by bit, it lessens and sometimes even dies. And then corporations pay consultants, such as us, to teach their employees &#8220;innovative thinking and problem solving&#8221; or &#8220;creativity.&#8221; I won&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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