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		<title>My best tech solutions from 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are always asking me what cool gadget am I using to be more effective. So I thought I would list some of the best tech. solutions I have been using in 2011 and will keep using into &#8217;12. Let me know what your favorites are &#8211; enjoy! Each one...]]></description>
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		<title>My first book signing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, full disclosure here, it didn’t go well. My first book signing and I was eating humble pie.  After a quick run in the rain with Riley (the dog) I was off in ironed shirt to my first book signing at the local Chapters store (thank you GM Paula!). I...]]></description>
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		<title>What no one will tell you about success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about success. I need to. I only have so many hours to work with and I’m frankly tired of working hard at my business. I also have loads of interests in my life that I love spending time on, like: my gals,...]]></description>
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		<title>All the bling won’t get you there</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just sent off a new program description for a very cool youth program that I have been asked to speak at and I wanted to share some it with you. This is deceivingly simple, so bear with me as I go through this. Advertisers and sales people want us...]]></description>
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		<title>How to remember your dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember your dreams? This is a little off track from my work smarter, live better theme, but you might like this! In July I was taking part in a spiritual retreat at the remarkable Stowel Lake Farm centre with depth psychologist and author Bill Plotkin. Suffice to say...]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out for inertia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was giving a talk in Toronto today to the very-cool team in the Telus marketing department and I shared some thoughts about business heroes that I thought you might like. I’ve always been impressed by heroes of the business world. Who couldn’t admire Ted Turner who brought us the...]]></description>
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		<title>Efficient or Effective-what’s your eff’n choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two words that are spending a lot of time in my sentences lately: ‘efficient’ and ‘effective’—and they’re very different. When we become more efficient we get better and faster at something like responding to our email, scheduling, or filling in forms. But, when we become more effective we...]]></description>
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		<title>How to go on vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve been there: the vacation you’ve been looking forward to all year is three days away and now you’ve run out of time. Everything you’ve procrastinated about at work is now due, the kids need a bunch a gear for the trip, plus there’s cleaning the house for the relatives,...]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Have FOMO?</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/do-you-have-fomo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where have I been? I&#8217;m obviously not getting out enough, meeting the right people, checking out the new scene! I must have F.O.M.O.. I was meeting with a financial advisor yesterday. Nice guy. We were talking about my book Give Me a Break (Oh, I think I just gave it...]]></description>
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		<title>REFOCUS, BY CHOICE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think that we are all delusional. We talk as if our woes are permanent when nothing is really permanent. We think that we are powerless yet every moment we operate the most sophisticated life form on earth. We blame ourselves for screw-ups yet we ignore all the small...]]></description>
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		<title>Sitting is deadly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all suspected it, now the research is in. Sitting is deadly, but (and here’s the surprise to me) hitting the gym may not compensate. Here’s some facts you need to know. Maybe like me you’ve long thought that you can off-set long sedentary hours of computer/desk work with a...]]></description>
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		<title>Give Me a Break-Book Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that so many movies have better trailers than that actual movie? I don&#8217;t know, but I&#8217;m hoping that my little trailer is actually NOT as good as the book. Have a look&#8230;. And buy the book Give Me a Break-Book Trailer View more presentations from Hugh Culver.]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the Fun Back Into Fitness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, I want you to watch the Volkswagen &#8220;stairs experiment&#8221; below (it&#8217;s only 1.48 minutes). This is a great example of habits in action. In the &#8220;before&#8221; picture we see people ignoring the stairs in favor of the escalator. Day after day, commuters&#8217; habits get...]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With Good Technique?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a workshop this week one person complained that the communication technique I was suggesting would be spotted as a &#8220;technique&#8221;. You know the old complaint: &#8220;Have you just come from a communication workshop?&#8221; Nonsense. Here&#8217;s the reality (from my perspective of course). You can&#8217;t improve your communication until you...]]></description>
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		<title>Watch for Meeting Creep</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happens innocently, two people need to discuss something so the time gets booked, two others are invited to &#8220;keep them in the loop&#8221;, one more calls in remotely and before you know it you have &#8220;meeting creep&#8221; (like scope creep, but more sinister). Sure, meetings are invaluable&#8211;we connect, see...]]></description>
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		<title>11 Ways to Make 2011 Great</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/11-ways-to-make-2011-great/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Shake your booty daily &#8211; give your heart and muscles a workout and they will return the favor for years to come. 2. Get up an hour earlier &#8211; start the day with a plan that includes time for just you &#8211; success starts early. 3. Use your OFF...]]></description>
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		<title>Prove You Value the Customer</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/prove-you-value-the-customer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my third time to the same coffee shop this week and, just like last time, they act like they&#8217;ve never seen me before. I&#8217;m not asking for a lot &#8212; just treat me like you value my business. I remember when the first Starbucks opened in North Vancouver (the...]]></description>
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		<title>Why 70% of Entrepreneurs Fail</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/why-70-of-entrepreneurs-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/why-70-of-entrepreneurs-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statistics are dismal: for every ten new business started today only three will still be answering the phone in 2015. All that energy, enthusiasm, and investment, and the payoff is failure. How come? I’ve been at this game of business for some time (Okay, a long time) and I’ve...]]></description>
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		<title>On being more selfish</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/on-being-more-selfish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up the puritanical, give-in order-to-receive ethic was driven into my psyche. You gave up your chair, put money in the hat, and doled out soup for the needy without thinking—it was simply what we do. Then we turn 50 and start doing our own inventory: How’s...]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Back Up</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/getting-back-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Olympic gold medalist Adam Kreek knows something about getting back up. Following his team’s (Canada’s men’s rowing eight) devastating fifth place finish at the 2004 Athens Olympics most of the team moved on. Understandably, going from race favorites on a winning streak to being out of the medals is a...]]></description>
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		<title>Hold office hours</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/hold-office-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the biggest conflict when it comes to ambitious managers? Answer: too many interruptions and wanting to get work done. More specifically, managers want time to: coach staff, review progress, plan ahead, complete work, and just to think. Part of the blame goes to outdated ‘open door’ policies, but...]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s sitting beside you?</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/who%e2%80%99s-sitting-beside-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sat down for the formal evening at a recent convention and noticed I was feeling slightly uncomfortable. It was a classic situation—I was in for a long evening of speeches and didn’t know the person sitting on either side of me. ‘What if we have nothing in common?’ I...]]></description>
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		<title>Are you in the hall?</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/are-you-in-the-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m about to leave the CAPS (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers) annual convention in Montreal and wondering if I held back. Every day, as I headed to the next session I would spot one or two lone soles, obviously with the convention, yet sitting on a couch by themselves. The...]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Kelowna Airport Administration-Notes from Dec. 3, 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/client-notes/kelowna-airport-administration-notes-from-dec-3-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<title>Make amends and move on</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit—I screwed up. I’m half way through my speech and on a roll. The audience is leaning in, laughing to my stories, and taking notes. And I’m having a good time. Such a good time that I just realized I had missed a whole section in the...]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of Capacity</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/in-praise-of-capacity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a much more persuasive argument for good time management than getting more done. In fact, if you just want to get more done, work longer hours than everyone else, or work faster. The better argument is that when you get better at handling your time you create more...]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: MD Canada Follow up-20 Nov. 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/client-notes/md-canada-follow-up-20-nov-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<title>Three ways to avoid Burn Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got off the stage from presenting a special message to the remarkable fire fighters that lead fund raising campaigns for Muscular Dystrophy Canada. I was asked to talk about time management and didn’t. Okay, to be perfectly honest, it did talk about time management, but I wanted the...]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: FortisBC-Reclaiming the Clock notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<title>What&#8217;s leaking in your backyard?</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/whats-leaking-in-your-backyard-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember noticing the spongy ground last September and thinking it was no big deal. I was working on adding soffits to the front of our house and had to move my ladder a few times to get on firm ground. &#8220;It must be a leak in the irrigation system&#8221;...]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t just stand there. Be there.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m standing in the business line at my bank waiting for a teller to greet me and take my deposit. The business line is for folks like me that came to put real money in their account and not try to pay their gas bill, send money to Aunt Jane...]]></description>
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		<title>Jump Start your Day (podcast)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my first podcast on itunes &#8211; let me know what you think.]]></description>
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		<title>Are you stressed out?</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/are-you-stressed-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Globe and Mail ran a week long series on this November on how stressed out Canadians are (http://bit.ly/dzWOt1). As expected they focused on the usual suspects, work/life balance, the growth of technology in our lives, increased working hours, and the resulting stress from a busy life. They also conducted...]]></description>
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		<title>My new book &#8211; cover design (getting close)</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/my-new-book-cover-design-getting-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a year in the making and I am within days of saying manyana to my book as it heads across the country to get printed. I didn&#8217;t realize how much effort the cover would be. I started with my rough ideas on paper, then created some different draft...]]></description>
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		<title>Today is a gift</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/today-is-a-gift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s human nature; we tend to see what is off track, and not working more that what’s right with the day. All around us is evidence of what is right with the world, but instead we are hung up on the insensitive email that Tony just sent.  Our myopic, negative,...]]></description>
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		<title>How&#8217;s that story doing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was presenting my time management course Reclaiming the Clock yesterday to a wonderful group and one theme kept coming up &#8220;This is all great, but&#8230;&#8221;. The excuses for not trying new ways to get a grip on their time ranged from: &#8220;When a customer comes in we have to...]]></description>
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		<title>Three ways to have a short meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all been there…what was planned to be a 30 minute meet-over-a-cuppa, or ‘let’s get together and talk about it’ meeting stretches into and hour. No big deal, until it becomes the norm instead of the exception. Here’s the reality, we all fall victim to the Parkinson Principle: Work expands...]]></description>
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		<title>Signs that appeal to our intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving down a pot-hole riddled road heading toward the bungy jump site outside Nanaimo, BC when I saw this sign. I love the brilliance of this! They took something that is an annoyance and turned it into a positive message about controlling your speed. Maybe we would pay...]]></description>
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		<title>Dead last and happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent a lot of time in kayaks, either white water boats or ocean kayaks. I guess I would have to say I’m very experienced having tackled some pretty gnarly rivers (like the Colorado, the Bio Bio in Southern Chile and the Zambezi in Africa) and being the occasional guide...]]></description>
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		<title>What can we learn from the Olympics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Olympics presented at the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers conference after I did and I was mesmerized. I have heard John present before about his tenure at the helm of what many are calling the most successful Olympics in history, but the...]]></description>
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		<title>Small Stuff makes you Smaller</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over a year now I have been talking about how the small stuff, over time, makes the biggest difference for our life success and destiny. What about how we eat? We all know that overeating and eating the wrong foods is receipt for disaster long term. But how do...]]></description>
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