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		<title>Living in a Bubble</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever noticed how we appear to be increasingly alienated from one another these days? Locked away in our own little world: jacked into iPods, mobiles and laptops. Distracted. Remote. Hived off. Nobody seems to pay any attention to anybody else anymore. We have become compartmentalised. Each of us inhabiting our own private universe. Seemingly unaware [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=golden-mean.net&#038;blog=25063197&#038;post=147&#038;subd=goldenmeandotnet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Taking Time Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I took a week off work recently. Nothing too fancy. We toured Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, including the Malvern Hills. We spent most of our time sight-seeing, walking, chatting over meals, reading and sleeping. Bliss! In a nutshell, we took some well-earned time out to de-stress, relax and re-charge our batteries. When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=golden-mean.net&#038;blog=25063197&#038;post=138&#038;subd=goldenmeandotnet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Iceberg is Melting &#8211; Lessons from the Penguin Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read a book by John Kotter on the subject &#8216;managing successful change&#8217; called Our Iceberg Is Melting. Kotter is a Professor at Harvard Business School, and has been writing on the topics of &#8216;successful change&#8217; and leadership for several decades. Written in 2005, the book approaches what could very easily be  a dry, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=golden-mean.net&#038;blog=25063197&#038;post=128&#038;subd=goldenmeandotnet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Car Sharing (Episode 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are now entering our second week as a car-sharing household. I&#8217;ll admit to experiencing more than a little trepidation before embarking upon our &#8216;grand&#8217; experiment. It all sounded great on paper: save money. Save time. Be kinder to the environment. But would the theory measure up in practice? My wife and I decided we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=golden-mean.net&#038;blog=25063197&#038;post=103&#038;subd=goldenmeandotnet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walking Saved My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking&#8221; ~ Friedrich Nietzsche When I left my previous job in the Autumn of 2007, I was exhausted, overweight, unfit and thoroughly miserable. My life was completely out of balance. I&#8217;d been working long hours in a recruitment sales role, doing a 2-hour commute several times a week. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=golden-mean.net&#038;blog=25063197&#038;post=93&#038;subd=goldenmeandotnet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dangers of Meta-think</title>
		<link>http://golden-mean.net/2011/07/20/dangers-of-meta-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow&#8221; ~ Swedish Proverb In George Orwell&#8217;s distopian masterpiece &#8217;1984&#8242;, one of the tools used by the totalitarian regime to manipulate and control it&#8217;s citizens is the concept of &#8216;Double Think&#8217;: the state of holding two contradictory thoughts simultaneously. In the real world of 2011, it appears [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=golden-mean.net&#038;blog=25063197&#038;post=54&#038;subd=goldenmeandotnet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Battle: Bellygeddon (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://golden-mean.net/2011/07/13/battle-bellygeddon-part1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all came to a predictable head during that surreal &#8216;limbo&#8217; period between Christmas and New Year last year. The belly had to go! Like many of us, I&#8217;ve struggled to maintain my &#8216;ideal&#8217; weight (as defined by BMI), for much of my childhood and adult life, aside from some frustratingly fleeting periods around the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=golden-mean.net&#038;blog=25063197&#038;post=26&#038;subd=goldenmeandotnet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a Winning CV</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having worked in the UK recruitment industry for 13 years, I understand how difficult and frustrating it can be trying to write a CV that will grab an employer&#8217;s attention. It can be can be quite an intimidating exercise having to condense your working life into a few short pages! So, I&#8217;ve written a guide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=golden-mean.net&#038;blog=25063197&#038;post=21&#038;subd=goldenmeandotnet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Car Sharing (Episode 1)</title>
		<link>http://golden-mean.net/2011/07/12/car-sharing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s finally happened: my wife and I have graduated to full card-carrying &#8216;Tree Hugger&#8217; status by deciding to become a 1-car household. This may not sound like a dramatic, eco-warrior style decision to any die-hard greenies out there, but it has been a genuine leap into the unknown for us, particularly given that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=golden-mean.net&#038;blog=25063197&#038;post=1&#038;subd=goldenmeandotnet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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