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		<title>What is Your New Year&#8217;s Theme?</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2009/12/26/what-is-your-new-years-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Year&#8217;s Eve is just around the corner.  Many of you know that I have a tradition of setting a &#8220;theme&#8221; for each year rather than a resolution.
My theme for 2009 was &#8220;cool things.&#8221;  And it definitely was a year of cool things.
I signed a 2 book deal with Penguin&#8217;s Portfolio imprint.  I became InnoCentive&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When You Sit on the Fence, You Get Splinters in Your Ass!</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2009/06/08/on-making-decisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Q&#38;A section of a presentation of mine on Goal-Free Living, a woman in the audience asked&#8230;
“I work in a cubicle in a well known technology firm and I am unhappy. How do I know if it is me or if it is my job? Do I need to change myself or change my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Goal-Free Living Offer</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2009/02/25/gfloffer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently sent a copy of my Goal-Free Living book to someone I worked with 20 years ago.  I hadn&#8217;t seen or heard from him since the late 80&#8217;s.  The wonders of social networks reconnected us after all of this time.  After reading the book, he wrote the following&#8230;
The time is right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goals Gone Wild</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2009/02/18/goals-gone-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My book, &#8220;Goal-Free Living,&#8221; provides counter-cultural perspectives on goal-setting.  I suggest that we are a nation of goalaholics, and that this is reducing creativity, productivity, and happiness.   Harvard Business School recently published an interesting paper, &#8220;Goals Gone Wild,&#8221; that supports my perspective.
The authors say&#8230;
In this article, we argue that the beneficial effects of goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Being Self-Centered is Good</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2009/01/27/be-self-centered-but-not-selfish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may seem like an odd blog entry, but it has been the topic of conversation over many dinners recently.
Although we are taught from a young age that being self-centered is a bad thing, I think that more people would benefit from being this way.  Let me explain.
To start off, I am not suggesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/12/30/happy-new-year-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just a matter of hours, 2009 will be upon us.  If you have not done so, please read my article on setting New Year&#8217;s Resolutions.  You may also be interested in some statistics about New Year&#8217;s Resolutions.
Happy New Year!
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		<title>Interesting New Year&#8217;s Resolution Statistics</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/12/11/interesting-new-years-resolution-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/12/11/interesting-new-years-resolution-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early this week I received an email from a researcher at a major national TV talk show.  They are doing a show on New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and saw my article on the topic.
They wanted to know if I had more details on the statistics referenced in the article.
I went back to the research we did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Paul Newman</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/09/29/paul-newman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/09/29/paul-newman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although I did not know Paul Newman personally, I always admired him.  He was an Academy Award winning actor (I remember being enthralled by &#8220;The Sting&#8221; as a kid), a championship race car driver, a successful food business man (I love Newman&#8217;s Own dressings and salsas) and a philanthropist.
He achieved so much and impacted so many lives.
Did he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commemorating September 11th</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/09/11/commemorating-september-11th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/09/11/commemorating-september-11th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, Shari Harley, wrote a beautiful article commemorating September 11th.  For her it is very personal since she worked in the Twin Towers at that time, but was not in the office that day.
She asks some very thought provoking questions:

How is the world different because I lived on September 11th when others died?
What have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolutions That Work</title>
		<link>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/08/18/resolutions-that-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/08/18/resolutions-that-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Shapiro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making Resolutions That Work 

Like dinosaurs and gas-guzzling SUVs, is the traditional New Year&#8217;s Resolution rapidly becoming a thing of the past?
According to a survey by Stephen Shapiro, the answer is a resounding &#8220;Yes.&#8221;
In a survey of 1012 Americans, only 45% of Americans now say they write up New Years Resolutions down from 88% of [...]]]></description>
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