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		<title>You are More Than Your Car Payment (let your heart speak)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some days, it&#8217;s just so easy to go off the rails.  As a writer, my world consists of two distinct dimensions: first, the heart-felt, soul-based, dig-deep-into-the-dirt storytelling that lights me up and gives my life purpose. Second, the pragmatic, techie details of the InterWebs that are fun, interesting, and pretty necessary but aren&#8217;t the true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Courage Found Me…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[how to love with my whole heart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We walk together over the old bow bridge, just after dark, on a perfect spring evening. The dog walks between us, our small sentinel, our shadow. &#8220;I need to talk to you about something,&#8221; I say to him, my heart rising in my throat. I quickly follow with, &#8220;This is not a break-up conversation,&#8221; because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got Creativity? You Betcha.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to imagine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to make my dreams come true]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I’m not a creative person.” I hear this all the time. All. The. Time.  I hear it from my counseling students. I hear it in the women’s groups I lead. I hear it at corporate training events. I hear it from my friends, my family, and strangers sitting beside me in restaurants, denouncing their birthright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Girl Who Changed My Life..</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[common hope]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I met her, I was so nervous. Which was ridiculous because Melany was only 10 years old at the time. Regardless, I felt totally out of my element. It was a hot day in Guatemala and I sweated in linen skirt and top. I packed this particular outfit specifically to meet Melany [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Life Lessons from TED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to make a dream come true]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imagination Installations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TEDx Greensboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a little girl, I was painfully shy, socially awkward, and deeply sensitive. Every morning before school, I woke up with a tummy ache, anxious about the day ahead yet without words to explain how I felt. My goal for most school days was simply to get through without drawing attention to myself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Bold and Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[teach English in Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest post is courtesy Teanca Shepherd, higher education administrator, world traveler and soon-to-be resident of Japan, where she will teach English. You can read more about her travels on her blog, Ramblings of a Muse.  &#8220;Laugh at yourself, but don&#8217;t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>41 Things I’ve Learned in 41 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birthday wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to be wise]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my birthday (no foolin&#8217;)! To celebrate, I share with you 41 nuggets of wisdom I&#8217;ve collected over the past 41 years. Feel free to share yours in the comments below! Life is too short for bad coffee.  Ditch the automatic drip and invest in a French press or Melitta filter. Buy the whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not go gentle into that good night.  Rage, rage against the dying of the light.  ~ Dylan Thomas &#160; I have always identified with fighters. My great heroes in childhood were scrappy boys and girls: Tatum O’Neil’s tomboy pitcher from “The Bad News Bears”; the bloody and beaten kids from the wrong side of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is your Art?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soul]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[make art not war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make art your life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Practice your art.  Practice your art in any way that makes sense to you. Maybe it’s obvious art like painting or writing. Maybe it’s less obvious, like doodling or daydreaming. Maybe it’s utterly hidden, even to yourself, the vivid dreams that fill your sleep and gently tug at you, even in the gray cubicle where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Comfort Zone is Not Safe…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyndi Briggs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Point University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MyBridges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the incredible good fortune to see Seth Godin speak live and in person at High Point University. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with Seth&#8217;s work, he&#8217;s the number one business blogger in the world and an entrepreneur, visionary, and prolific writer who hatched common biz buzzwords such as The Purple Cow. To those [...]]]></description>
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