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		<title>Don&#8217;t Expect God to Do Your Grunt Work</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/02/03/dont-expect-god-to-do-your-grunt-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was privy to a conversation involving a mentor and his coaching subject, a mid-level manager. They had been discussing the manager’s future – moving up the ladder, making the next career move, and the like. When asked about his plan of attack for pursuing the opportunities before him, the manager, an earnest and devout Christian, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4819&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At Work As It Is In Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith in the Workplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imposter Syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micro-prayer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend leaned over the table at Starbucks yesterday morning, and confided, “You really don’t want to know what goes on in this space above my shoulders…” He is the Chief Executive of his organization, and we were talking about the psychotic warped thinking that can unravel in the mind of an otherwise confident leader under duress [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4802&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving From Either/Or to Both/And</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/01/24/moving-from-eitheror-to-bothand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ambition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Competition at work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zero sum outcomes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was festering over a work situation which I instinctively had interpreted as a zero sum game. By that I mean, there were two players and only two potential outcomes: a winner and a loser. This win-lose attitude was naturally accompanied by a generous barrage of negative thoughts, driven by a desperate need for survival and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4795&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Sound More Confident</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/01/17/how-to-sound-more-confident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business slang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lack of confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management buzzwords]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been coaching one of our managers lately on how to appear more confident in front of groups. I am uniquely qualified to coach him because I am oh-so-familiar with self-confidence issues, as they played out many times in my early career. I would freeze up, quake in my boots, get dry mouth, gastric problems &#8211; you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4781&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret Art of Reinventing Yourself</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/01/10/the-secret-art-of-reinventing-yourself/</link>
		<comments>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/01/10/the-secret-art-of-reinventing-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eighth grade is typically a harsh year, and mine was no exception. I was not the most athletically coordinated boy, which placed me firmly at the lowest ranking of the middle school echelon. Add to that my greasy hair, braces, and oversized, thick-lens eyeglasses, and you start to get a very sorry picture. Thankfully, my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4770&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Things to Stop Doing in 2012</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/01/01/five-things-to-stop-doing-in-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ambition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goal-setting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Year Resolutions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Strategy consultant Dorie Clark wrote an intriguing post a couple weeks ago at Harvard Business Review blogs presenting somewhat of an anti-outlook for 2012. Instead of promoting typical professional stretch goal-setting tips, she made suggestions for things to stop doing, in order to become more focused and productive in the New Year. Her red lighted list of things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4748&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Angels</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2011/12/22/snow-angels-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am dredging up a seasonal tidbit from the archives  -  one of my favorites &#8211; just in time for the holidays. And I am breaking all the blogging rules on this one, refusing to edit it down. So pull up a chair and a hot cup of cocoa. (Plus, I know you&#8217;re on vacation anyway, so relax!)  Merry Christmas and Happy New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4733&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders: Time to Affirm Work Well Done</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2011/12/19/leaders-time-to-affirm-work-well-done/</link>
		<comments>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2011/12/19/leaders-time-to-affirm-work-well-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affirmation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended an end-of-year corporate Holiday dinner with the management team of a smallish company of which I sit on the Board. As the cocktail hour was winding down and the merry executives and spouses were finally herded to their tables for dinner, the President stood up at the front of the room, cleared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4709&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take One Day Off Just For Yourself</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2011/12/14/take-one-day-off-just-for-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work-Life Balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time off]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vacation days]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know if it’s because I am getting older, but the days just seem to slip away before my eyes. I am trying to practice all the things that the experts say to slow it down, like being present in the now, getting up an hour earlier, taking a few minutes every day for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4698&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grace To You, and Also To Your Business</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2011/12/12/the-business-side-of-grace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith in the Workplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My CFO, Dave, has coined a fancy new corporate theological term, called “Business Sovereignty.” He mentions it every time something turns out for the good that we didn’t really expect. You wouldn&#8217;t guess that there are theological references to business &#8211; well, there aren&#8217;t, actually; thus his need to make something up. Now, I’m no theologian, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=4681&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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