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		<title>The Rabbit&#8217;s Magician - Behind the Smoke and Mirrors - A Little Alchemy For 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our fascination with &#8220;magic&#8221; conjures up visions of mystique and intrigue that we seem to long for in our lives. History and stories of lore have mystified and enchanted us, continually tantalizing our desires to quench that unnerving thirst for a bit of the miraculous. Modern day magicians continue their predecessors&#8217; practice of illusionary entertaining, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Make Each Moment The Best Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you sat down and watched a leaf blow around in the soft breeze? Can you remember the last time you saw a bird? What kind of bird was it? Within every moment of life are the answers that any person will ever need to have. However, if you are like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/how-to-make-each-moment-the-best-moment.html</link>
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		<title>The Inner Light in You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each one of you is like a light, this bright, shinning, beautiful light, so it&#8217;s like a lamp post. Picture a lamp post, that&#8217;s on the left, that&#8217;s your light.
You have the two lampposts, one on the right, and one on the left, on the left that&#8217;s you, that&#8217;s just this bright light, that&#8217;s how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Find Your Passion - Whine Should Be Reserved For Bottles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting in a restaurant recently trying to enjoy a delicious California Merlot before my entre&#8217;. Seated nearby are three people, dressed professionally having a very heated conversation over dinner. This expansive restaurant covering over 2000 square feet of space had four visitors and guess the seating arrangements!
While I am trying to enjoy dinner, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/how-to-find-your-passion-whine-should-be-reserved-for-bottles.html</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s The Hard Times That Polish You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I remember going through a real tough time. Real tough!! I remember sitting down by the sea and just staring into space. Looking out at the large space between myself and  the horizon. All the challenges going through my mind. I was finding it hard to think positive and pick my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/its-the-hard-times-that-polish-you.html</link>
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		<title>Walking Around the Mess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our lives are inextricably entwined with so many other lives. From those who live in our homes with us to the stranger we pass on the street, the choices we make affect many others - and their choices affect us.
So how can I choose my own life if the decisions of so many others affect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Bed Spoke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It had been a long, hard day full of both physical and mental work. I had a snack, took a hot shower and then crawled into my comfortable bed, pulled up my warm blankets, nestled my head into my pillows, and turned on the bedroom TV to watch the late night news.
As I lay there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If Today, You Made the Choice of Ease?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning feeling sad and thinking of all the things I had to do today and how I needed about 10 more hours in the day in order to get it all done. With this kind of thinking, to tell you the truth, I did not even want to get out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/what-if-today-you-made-the-choice-of-ease.html</link>
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		<title>The True Real Practical Relevant Meaning Of Comfort - And We Each Need A Word Of Comfort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We hear a lot about Iraq these days and much about Baghdad.   There is quite a bit about this geographical area in the Bible.   Turn with me to one scenario in Isaiah Chapter 40.   There are relevant and practical lessons here for each one of us in these present [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/the-true-real-practical-relevant-meaning-of-comfort-and-we-each-need-a-word-of-comfort.html</link>
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		<title>How To Overcome Evil With Good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I loved the old Kung Fu TV show. In one episode Master Po said to Kwai Chang Caine &#8220;When a man comes at you with a stick there are three ways to deal with him. Run, fight him or take his stick away&#8221;. The third option is fully understood by few but points to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/how-to-overcome-evil-with-good.html</link>
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		<title>How To Be Who You Really Are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Surely it would make you happier just to be yourself. Why fight to be accepted by people you don&#8217;t actually want to be with?&#8221; - Tristan Thorn, Stardust
Have you ever found yourself struggling to be part of a crowd you did not even really want to be with?
In today&#8217;s image-based, status-quo society, it is easy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/how-to-be-who-you-really-are.html</link>
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		<title>The Indirect Money Education During Chinese New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important traditions of a Chinese is to celebrate every years Chinese New Year. When I was celebrating Chinese New Year in my country, I get to realize something new. Chinese New Year is one of the most important factors that cause Chinese a race which generate lots of wealth in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/the-indirect-money-education-during-chinese-new-year.html</link>
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		<title>Middle Age Fitness Adds Zest To Your Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Middle age fitness will help you add zest and meaningfulness to your life right now.
Hold it. Wait a minute. Do you really want to end that vague feeling of frustration? Then jump on this important information listed below that will get you going towards your new life of accomplishment and satisfaction.
* Increase your Energy and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/middle-age-fitness-adds-zest-to-your-life.html</link>
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		<title>Reinvent Your Life!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few people have awakened to what life really holds for them.  Each of us has the ability to express from our own life center directed purpose to change our lives.  Learning the technique for reinvention will allow you to set the course for whatever you want to achieve.
First, you must become aware of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/reinvent-your-life.html</link>
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		<title>Stung By A Bee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was working in the yard when I disturbed a nest of bees and got stung on the shoulder.  The sting left a tender red spot and it really hurt &#8212; it was like the bite was the epicenter with nerves tingling all round that spot.  It hurt for 24 hours and for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/stung-by-a-bee.html</link>
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		<title>Wearing Of The Green - An Expression Of The Heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As February winters come to a close, we wave goodbye to days of pink hearts and roses and say hello to green sprouts of Spring. Interesting that both Valentine&#8217;s and St. Patrick&#8217;s Day both carry an air of blossoming new hope and renewal of joyful splendor, where matters of the heart and life are concerned. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/wearing-of-the-green-an-expression-of-the-heart.html</link>
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		<title>Are You Following Your Divine Guidance?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you followed your guidance? The angels are giving you guidance all the time&#8230;Do you notice their guidance?
What have you been receiving time after time but ignoring? You probably have been receiving this guidance but ignoring it due to fear. Most people have fear when making some sort of a change in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/are-you-following-your-divine-guidance.html</link>
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		<title>Focus On The Light And Create A Brighter Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So many people feel like giving up these days, and I can&#8217;t blame them.  These are hard times for many of us.  The one thing we must remember though, is that there is ALWAYS hope.  Even in the darkest times, there can always be a little bit of light.  This gives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/focus-on-the-light-and-create-a-brighter-future.html</link>
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		<title>You Deserve It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It just happens. A lifetime of accomplishments and memories can evaporate, and before you know it, it&#8217;s gone forever. Company CEOs, public officials, and even the guy down the street will all be forgotten. Time presses, people come and go. It just happens.
It seems like such an injustice for all your labor, all the effort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/you-deserve-it.html</link>
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		<title>The Spirit and The Conversation With God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a point in time not known to us on the earthly plane a spirit was wondering happily around heaven. Everything is so perfect here thought the spirit and harmony is all around. I wonder why so many spirits decide to leave this place and become a human being on that place called earth.
The spirit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/the-spirit-and-the-conversation-with-god.html</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Ma!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hmmm&#8230;I remembered a story once told by my mother about a woman who was very, very poor. She had a child, a boy, whom she was determined to give a better life. So she worked very, very hard and made a lot of sacrifices, and made sure that he receive a good education.
Years passed and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/happy-birthday-ma.html</link>
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		<title>Attention Must Be Paid To Connect Our Minds, Bodies And Spirits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think back to a time in your childhood when you felt gleeful, when you felt like you could stay in that place forever.
Was it making angels in the snow, smelling cookies baking, when you came home from school, hearing a special story re-read to you by one of the most wonderful people in your life?
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/attention-must-be-paid-to-connect-our-minds-bodies-and-spirits.html</link>
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		<title>I Jumped and You Can Too!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Standing on the edge of the rock over looking the lake I wanted to jump, but I was scared. My two teenage boys, Evan and Luke, had coerced me into climbing to the top of a 40 foot rock which stuck out over Tygart Lake in WV while we were there boating with a friend. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/i-jumped-and-you-can-too.html</link>
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		<title>How to Reinvent Yourself like Madonna to Cure Your Midlife Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all heard of or known people who have ditched their successful careers, given up the stability of the life they&#8217;ve created and switched gears to go in a new direction and become something or someone else. It&#8217;s not easy nor is it safe, but it&#8217;s a way get back on track and pursue our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/how-to-reinvent-yourself-like-madonna-to-cure-your-midlife-crisis.html</link>
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		<title>The Search For Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man&#8217;s persistent search for &#8220;life&#8221; &#8220;out there&#8221; is admirable and motivated by the best of intentions.
But in their search, these intellectual seekers fail to factor in the fact that the very act of initiating these intellectual activities involves another critical ingredient.  This ingredient is the activity of their own individual consciousness which is doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/the-search-for-life.html</link>
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		<title>Inspiration From a Victim of Crime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another sunny, bright spring day in Johannesburg. I&#8217;m taking my children to play at our local recreation center. I&#8217;m complaining about my dull headache, sore throat and exhaustion caused by my persistent glandular fever and about the drag it is walking the 2 kilometers there.
When we were about to return home, my husband walks ahead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/inspiration-from-a-victim-of-crime.html</link>
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		<title>Thoughts Are The Blueprint To Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever really sat down and considered the real power of thought,
 And are you satisfied with what you have achieved from life so far?
I would like you to sit down for a few moments and really consider where your thoughts have brought you so far.
You see, everything we do in life comes from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/thoughts-are-the-blueprint-to-success.html</link>
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		<title>Notes from the Couch - Dare Yourself to Begin to Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of mindfulness plays a central role in Buddhism.  The Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, founder of Buddhism, stated: &#8220;Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.&#8221;  Mindfulness is an intentional and nonjudgmental awareness of one&#8217;s thoughts and actions in the present [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/notes-from-the-couch-dare-yourself-to-begin-to-dream.html</link>
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		<title>How Jesus Proved Mankind a Viable Species</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago Cherokee elder and wisdom keeper, John Red Hat Duke, shared with me that he had received from the Higher Powers that humanity is a &#8216;failed experiment.&#8217;  Maybe that is because the love of so many has waxed cold.
It appears that humans are very quick to forget their commitment to Creator.  Many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/how-jesus-proved-mankind-a-viable-species.html</link>
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		<title>Life, A Vacation, Journey And Destination All Rolled Into One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is life a vacation? Journey? Or destination? Could life be a combo of all three? Is it possible to have a 9-5 job and still feel like you&#8217;re on vacation? Can you be living life while making a living? Ok, what&#8217;s with all the questions? To begin a vacation, to journey somewhere - heck, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/life-a-vacation-journey-and-destination-all-rolled-into-one.html</link>
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		<title>How To Improve Your Memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have had problems with our memory at different times in our lives and in different ways. However, it is an interesting fact that we can remember some things vividly while at the same time having a very real problem remembering others. This can be used to our advantage, however, by giving us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/how-to-improve-your-memory.html</link>
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		<title>The Hidden Treasure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hidden treasure inside of everybody is his/her gift or talent.  It is a good thing and will be of help to you if you discover your potential earlier in life though there is no age that you can&#8217;t discover your God-given potential.  Your potential can take you anywhere in life,  it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/the-hidden-treasure.html</link>
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		<title>My Healthy Lifestyle Journey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How quitting has let me begin anew.
Overweight and out of shape I thought about yet another diet and decided against it. I thought about what had worked for me and what hadn&#8217;t and I thought about why. I thought about:
How many times have I gone on a diet? 
 On an exercise program? Too numerous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/my-healthy-lifestyle-journey.html</link>
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		<title>What It Means to Walk On Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by the Apostle Peter.  Perhaps, because I find it so easy to relate to his impulsive, talkative nature and his propensity for speaking from his heart. My favorite story about Peter is related in several different gospels. But only the Gospel of Mathew actually tells us about Peter&#8217;s water walking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/what-it-means-to-walk-on-water.html</link>
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		<title>Self-Directed Learning - You Are Not Stuck Where You Are, You Can Grow Throughout Your Whole Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-directed learning is a little powerful engine that God has put into us to enable us to accomplish the plan we were created to walk in. It is the ability to learn in such a manner that it will constantly bring a flow of increase into all areas of our lives.
Although this way of learning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/self-directed-learning-you-are-not-stuck-where-you-are-you-can-grow-throughout-your-whole-life.html</link>
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		<title>Gift of Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you taken your dream vacation?  My husband I did two summers ago when we went to Paris, France for the first time.  We
 wanted to immerse ourselves in the culture, museums, and the food!  Instead we go a lesson in life on racism with a twist of hope attached to it.
We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/gift-of-hope.html</link>
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		<title>The Kindness of Strangers - Inspiration for an Ordinary Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been aware in recent days of the kindness of strangers. Small things mostly, a bit of grocery-store advice, a scrap of conversation with someone I accidentally called on the phone. Smiles from people I don&#8217;t know. A gentle warning about ice from the mail carrier in another neighborhood.
These are not extraordinary events such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/the-kindness-of-strangers-inspiration-for-an-ordinary-day.html</link>
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		<title>Cornerstones Of Self-Confidence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all need self confidence in order to succeed in life. Without self confidence we will be unable to face life&#8217;s challenges with equanimity. With it we will be able to face them with courage.
The dilemma we are faced with, however, is how to gain self confidence when we lack it in the first place? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/cornerstones-of-self-confidence.html</link>
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		<title>Run Freely (A Lesson About Courage)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I parked the car by the curb, across the street from where she worked, and waited for her.
As I looked outside the car window to my right, there was a small park where I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/run-freely-a-lesson-about-courage.html</link>
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		<title>Understanding How Your Personal Seasonal Cycle Can Significantly Improve Your Life &#38; Business!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cycles of change are a normal part of life.  Day transitions into night, summer transitions into fall and eventually winters&#8217; cold spell breaks up to reveal the freshness of spring.  While we accept these cycles as normal in nature, we sometimes ignore the fact that cycles are evident in all aspects of life. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/understanding-how-your-personal-seasonal-cycle-can-significantly-improve-your-life-business.html</link>
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		<title>Beginnings Are The Hardest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people seem to think that the on-going effort to excel or promote a business requires the greatest amount of energy and work. Or, that the adventure of adaptation to change is the hardest of all tasks. These conclusions, however, couldn&#8217;t be further form the truth.
The real energy, the real struggle, the real work comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/beginnings-are-the-hardest.html</link>
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		<title>Risk Taking And The Quality Of Our Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was watching a DVD the other night, The Astronaut Farmer, and it really made me think. As implausible as the actual story was, the myth it portrayed in human terms was of great value. Perhaps the very implausibility of the story was what made the truth behind the myth stand out to begin with. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/risk-taking-and-the-quality-of-our-lives.html</link>
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		<title>Prosperity Is Our Birthright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why are there many people who live an abundant life while others don&#8217;t?  Why are there so many people who are financially broke, sick, frustrated and unfulfilled?
When God gives mankind blessings and gifts, are they equally appropriated or not?  Without a doubt, He would give His sons and daughters equal share of everything. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/prosperity-is-our-birthright.html</link>
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		<title>Beauty Is Only As Deep As Your Personality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a society that has come to value skin tone, weight and appearance more highly than personality I feel it&#8217;s increasingly important to remain focused on one&#8217;s natural and &#8220;inner beauty.&#8221;  From MTV to Glamour magazine we are bombarded daily with criteria in which to judge another human being on.  Photographers are just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/beauty-is-only-as-deep-as-your-personality.html</link>
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		<title>When Life Leaks Upside Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It stems from the fact that we had one of those experiences the other night which makes you evaluate a lot of things you take for granted around you;  to exaggerate, a near-death experience.
It happened like this. My cook and I have mutually parted ways and I now have a new hand in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/when-life-leaks-upside-down.html</link>
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		<title>Peeling The Onion!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life does have its bumps and curves, valleys and mountains, and rivers and banks. My friend Tom Brown has experienced all of those in his 72 years of life. He is a man of integrity, truth and belief. He lives behind bars in a prison in Arizona. Tom spends his days teaching other inmates so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/peeling-the-onion.html</link>
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		<title>Mirror, Mirror On the Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? Remember the fairy tale words? They came with a powerful message. The one who must be the fairest is certain to be plagued with anger, fear, and hatefulness. Fairy tales were told to children as moral tales. They held within their stories real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall.html</link>
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		<title>How To Spend The Life We&#8217;re Given</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it about money; fame and fortune; or is it about big toys and success? People go at lengths trying to achieve all of these things. Yet, before the end of their lives, they may realize that these things are nothing but things - they do not deeply satisfy. How many years do humans spend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/how-to-spend-the-life-were-given.html</link>
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		<title>Your Purpose in Life and Your Role Models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember a time when you truly looked up to someone and wanted to become just like that person? It may have been an actor playing a role in a movie or in a novel, or perhaps a teacher who made a difference in your life. Probably, it could have been your father or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/your-purpose-in-life-and-your-role-models.html</link>
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		<title>Is There A Silver Lining?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was listening to a conversation among some friends and they were talking about how bad the economy is. Listening to them, the theme was that we were doomed and there was no way things could be turned around. All I heard was how bad things were going to get.
Now, I&#8217;m not so nave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.selfimprovementdir.com/is-there-a-silver-lining.html</link>
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