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		<title>Blog 30-Day Challenge &#8211; Next Steps</title>
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After the challenge of writing a blog post every day for 30 days in a row, what comes next?
I’ve summarized the major elements of what I learned. Digestion will continue.
What is coming as a follow up to this activity?

Refine larger business plans for my information outlets. How can I make my sites better, more educational, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from the Blog Challenge</title>
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Tomorrow is the finish line for the 30 day blog challenge (#blog30), organized by Jeanette Cates and Connie Ragen Green. This is the second one I’ve done in 2010.
I used this new blog, The Reasonista, for this challenge. The standard was that all posts were to be on the same blog.
Just for this June 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thereasonista.com/lessons-learned-from-the-blog-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Ben Franklin&#8217;s Virtues &#8211; Humility</title>
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Pride goes before a fall, says a verse in Proverbs. And humility is the opposite of pride.
I recall from the Autobiography that humility was the toughest virtue, according to Ben.
He had a lot of accomplishments to be justly proud for. His inventions helped lots of people, even saving lives with devices like the lightening rod.
And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thereasonista.com/ben-franklins-virtues-humility/</link>
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		<title>Ben Franklin&#8217;s Virtues &#8211; Part 4</title>
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Ben had a reputation for loving the ladies, at least, on a mental level. Besides beauty, he loved an active mind.
It’s easy to imagine that he felt freer to explore certain subjects with a lady. Less need to be guarded when heading into test theories and possibilities.
And it probably did make the practice of some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thereasonista.com/ben-franklins-virtues-part-4/</link>
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		<title>Ben Franklin&#8217;s Virtues &#8211; Part 3</title>
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There’s a story about Ben, having just arrived in Philadelphia. He was walking down the street, with a long roll of bread under each arm. He&#8217;d just spent the last of his money.
Although he was 17 years old and a fugitive from his apprenticeship in Boston, his mind, it seems, was on immediate matters.
He had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thereasonista.com/ben-franklins-virtues-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Ben Franklin&#8217;s Virtues &#8211; Part 2</title>
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Ben Franklin was forward thinking in a number of ways.
His self-devised program of focusing on his list of 13 Virtues, in weekly succession, was just one of his innovations. Central heating, bifocals and the lightening rod and other inventions are all attributed to his resourceful mind.
And his success in business is certainly attributable to his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thereasonista.com/ben-franklins-virtues-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Ben Franklin&#8217;s Virtues &#8211; Moving Forward</title>
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My eighth and ninth grade English teachers passed out several college-prep reading lists, and I spent my high school years on a mission to read many of the books on them.
I made quite a bit of progress. One of the most memorable of these books (even after 40+ years) was The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
Ben [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thereasonista.com/ben-franklins-virtues-moving-forward/</link>
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		<title>Flip the Coins on Purpose</title>
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It’s often said, there are two sides to every coin.
And it’s so true, you cannot have one side of the coin without the other.
Flipping a coin has been a decision-making tool probably since coins were invented (and they go back at least as far as Roman times, perhaps longer).
Leaving decisions to chance (albeit with 50-50 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thereasonista.com/flip-the-coins-on-purpose/</link>
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		<title>Deciding to Write</title>
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Some people have their favorite mechanisms to help them write. I have mine as well.

If the words aren’t coming, or the ideas won’t jell, then some physical activity helps. It can be as short as a walk down to the end of the block and back. Just enough to get the juices stirring.
Walking seems to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thereasonista.com/deciding-to-write/</link>
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		<title>The Answer Is: We&#8217;ll See</title>
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“We’ll see” is the lesson in a popular Zen story, told in a few different ways.
Perhaps you have heard it. The main characters are an old man, his 20-something son, and the local villagers.
Various things happen in the village. And early in the story, the son finds and captures a beautiful wild horse.
“How wonderful,” say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thereasonista.com/the-answer-is-we-will-see/</link>
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