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		<title>Been here for a year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve been in Colorado for a year as of last Friday. I meant to post then, but sometimes life gets in the way. The year went by fast, of course, and yet I went through so many different evolutions it seems impossible for all of that to have been just 12 months.
I&#8217;m tempted to write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A year ago today, I headed West…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago today I did one of the hardest things I&#8217;ve ever done. I packed two trash bags of clothes and shoes, my guitar, a suitcase, and a few odds and ends into my little Mazda, strapped my bike on the back, and headed West. As glorious and romantic as it was to finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step away from the broom, or is this procrastination?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.onlythecurious.com/?p=164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had nothing on my schedule today. NOTHING. No work, no events, no hanging out with friends. I don&#8217;t even have things in mind that I might do. Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 was a blank slate for me. I think it&#8217;s the emptiest day I&#8217;ve had since&#8230; the last summer vacation I had when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stability, homesickness, and did I mention my friends in Wisconsin are awesome?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quarter Life Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[...somehow I'm both wildly happy and desperately homesick and missing the one thing I never expected to: stability. But sometimes good friends and not stressing about money and having a place that is yours - all settled in to and comfortable and familiar - sometimes those things are good too...]]></description>
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		<title>The “Avoiding Overcommitment” series, Strategy #4: Re-Evaluate, and Know When to Quit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.onlythecurious.com/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve set your goals, and whittled down the thousands of things you could be doing to just the things that are useful to you. You&#8217;ve listened to your gut (not your parents or co-workers) and you&#8217;re only doing the things of those useful activities that you really, actually, WANT to be doing and are excited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Avoiding Overcommitment” series, Strategy #3: One Thing at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.onlythecurious.com/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Opportunities tend to come in waves, following the season for rec sports, the schoolyear, etc. Which is why I learned to only make one commitment at a time. It&#8217;s easy to get to the beginning of a season or semester and pile on five new things. 
The problem with adding a bunch of activities at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Avoiding Overcommitment” series, Strategy #2: Have a Goal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.onlythecurious.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know that goalsetting is important for success. It gives us something to strive for, and helps us have a direction. Goals play into avoiding overcommitment in three ways:
1) Having goals helps us choose our activities wisely.  In the previous post, I talked about how I used to do a lot of things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Avoiding Overcommitment” series, Strategy #1: Only do it if YOU Really WANT to</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.onlythecurious.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for the delay in actually getting this series posted after putting up the introduction a week ago. Of course, the reason for not getting them up? I&#8217;m kind of overcommitted at the moment and haven&#8217;t had a chance to write&#8230;  
My first &#8211; that is, NUMBER ONE &#8211; strategy for avoiding overcommitment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Avoiding Overcommitment” series, introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finding Balance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.onlythecurious.com/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a long and tangled history with over-commitment. Part of this comes from being what Barbara Sher calls a &#8220;scanner&#8221; &#8211; someone who has many interests and is constantly scanning the horizon for the next interesting thing. The other part of it comes from being an over-achiever, and feeling like I &#8220;should&#8221; participate in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining “security,” or don’t put your eggs all in one basket</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Multiple Streams of Income]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was writing about how the biggest thing that I hear from my traditionally employed friends is that they could never go without the security of their paycheck. And someone made a great point in the comments that job security is kind of a fallacy. 
When you&#8217;re self-employed, it&#8217;s simply a different kind of [...]]]></description>
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