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		<title>You don’t need self-esteem, you need self-confidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February is National Self-Esteem Month; I hate the term. You don’t need self “esteem,” what you need is genuine confidence. This may be a semantic argument, but it’s a very important one. Self-esteem simply means a favorable impression of oneself. This favorable impression may or may not be based in reality; the fact is you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinklikeablackbelt.org&amp;blog=11058526&amp;post=2879&amp;subd=thinklikeablackbeltthebook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are we so bad at picking good leaders?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jimbouchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a fabulous article on CNN opinion.com. (Read the entire article here.)  Jeffrey Cohn, the author of &#8220;Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders&#8221; wrote a terrific piece titled “Why we pick bad leaders, and how to spot the good ones.&#8221; I&#8217;m going to send Mr. Cohn a a certificate naming him a black [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinklikeablackbelt.org&amp;blog=11058526&amp;post=2871&amp;subd=thinklikeablackbeltthebook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why you SHOULD care about Whitney Houston</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jimbouchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The piling on has already started. The first group is made of those who are screaming that we pay too much attention to these high-profile celebrity suicides. (Yes, I said suicide &#8212; I’ll get to that later.) You folks are righteously proclaiming that our instant media culture makes heroes out of celebrity junkies while paying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinklikeablackbelt.org&amp;blog=11058526&amp;post=2860&amp;subd=thinklikeablackbeltthebook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine’s Day &#8211; Techniques for a Hot Cheap Date</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times are tough. For many the thought of spending a lot of money on Valentine’s Day can add pressure you certainly don’t need. The good news is you don’t need a lot of money to create a nice Valentine’s Day for your sweetheart. As martial artists we spend a great deal of time learning, practicing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinklikeablackbelt.org&amp;blog=11058526&amp;post=2853&amp;subd=thinklikeablackbeltthebook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a story I tell at many of my speaking events&#8230; “I was living in Portland, Maine. No car. No money. Crummy apartment. My girlfriend had just left me and my band was breaking up. I took a walk up the main drag and looked up and saw a gigantic sign on the side of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinklikeablackbelt.org&amp;blog=11058526&amp;post=2844&amp;subd=thinklikeablackbeltthebook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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