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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Without a clear vision of what you want to achieve it is difficult to find your way and impossible to measure how you are progressing. Vision is the guiding light of purpose. Vision gives meaning to action. Vision is seeing into the future before it is written. It is the substance of a reality that [...]


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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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A man without a vision is like a blind rabbit with a torch and a compass. There are places to go, things to see, but even if the rabbit had a GPS tracker, it would be of no use. Just like the man without a vision, the rabbit is hopelessly lost. Many men and women [...]


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		<title>Begin with the end in mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan</dc:creator>
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The way we start out is often the same way we finish. I have started some things in life with a cautious approach and ended up achieving very little. On other occasions I have thrown myself whole self into a project and have been rewarded with success. The coming 12 months will be when I [...]


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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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