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		<title>Thought for the week &#8211; 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops! I seem to have been a bit remiss&#8230; However, I saw this on a website earlier today, hadn&#8217;t come across it before and thought I&#8217;d share it with you: Kind hearts are the gardens Kind thoughts are the roots Kind words are the flowers Kind deeds are the fruits Longfellow What we think about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolve Your Dilemma with a D!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re feeling swamped and don&#8217;t know where to start, this little piece of advice is useful &#8211; You choose from one of the following: Do it now Dump it now Delegate it Defer it Neat, huh? Have a productive day. Linda Tweet]]></description>
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		<title>How times change!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy April I thought we&#8217;d have some fun comparing our automatic understanding of words in the technological age we now live in with that of a world less than a generation ago. Here are just twenty meanings of words twenty years ago, back in the latter half of the 1980s: An application was for employment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer time is here</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official! We&#8217;ve been getting a bit heavy the last couple of weeks so I thought it&#8217;s time to lighten up a bit (oh no, another awful pun). Seriously, though, haven&#8217;t you felt a bit lighter in step already over the last couple of days with the effect of daytime apparently being longer? But did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the week &#8211; 19</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there A brief one this week but what about the potential impact! Scientists have long held that human beings use a mere 5% capacity of our brains. Just suppose we decided to use an extra 1%. We could get up ten minutes earlier and, on top of that, watch ten minutes less television every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the week &#8211; 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can all learn from donkeys! Chris Christofi (who also happens to be a great mortgage broker) shared this story with a few of us the other day. He said his granddad used fables and stories to get points across to him when he was a young lad and one was about an old farmer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the week &#8211; 17</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spoke to a great guy recently. His company has created a very powerful business tool that allows you to understand your marketplace. And it&#8217;s priced well within the means of any company with a turnover of £2m+. If you&#8217;re interested in knowing more, get in touch and I&#8217;ll put you in contact with him. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the week &#8211; 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We woke up yesterday to no electricity and an eerie stillness in our neighbourhood. A little investigation revealed that some 1500 homes were affected and nobody had any idea when the supply would be returned. Okay, do we sit around and wait or do something different? We decided to go out for a brisk walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the week &#8211; 15</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Minds are like parachutes &#8211; they only function when open.&#8221; Thomas Dewar I came across this whilst looking for something to give us some get-up-and-go to start the week. I liked it for its pithiness. Thomas Dewar was no academic, sitting at home dolling out pearls of wisdom &#8211; he was a doer (the pun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the week &#8211; 14</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Mattacks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.&#8221; Mark Twain I thought we&#8217;d stay with the sailing theme for a [...]]]></description>
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