tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54678922011-04-21T11:39:48.056-07:00Learning to Live the Life That is One's OwnFarraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03778944880078013351noreply@blogger.comBlogger721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467892.post-1078636733582822172004-03-06T21:18:00.000-08:002004-03-06T21:21:06.233-08:00

Come on over to http://love2learn.typepad.com/wholelifemastery/ Be sure to change your bookmarks and subscribe to my new and improved -- I've finally found a home in cyberspace for all those book reviews -- blog.

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Paauwerfully Organized - Newsletter

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In one of the courses I teach, Working with Diversity, we talk alot about becoming an advocate, i.e. What can I contribute to create a workplace/school/home where everyone is allowed to contribute regardless of their socially significant differences. The Reversing Vandalism Project, sponsored by the San Francisco public library, is an example of creative advocacy using altered books. Use what

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There's a fascinating discussion thread in the Yahoo Group artistjournals2. (You must join -- membership is free -- to access the messages and participate in the discussion.) The trailer for the movie, The Red Dragon, includes a brief shot of a beautiful journal. Unfortunately it's kept by a serial killer. Other movies that show journaling -- The English Patient, Crazy Beautiful, White

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I was waiting for a meeting today, when I started talking with a woman in the waiting room. A couple of weeks ago, I had shown her one of my altered books. She "didn't get it", until today when she had time to ask and I had time to explain. This is what I came up with that finally got her to that point of "Oh, I see". Not agreement or approval, just clarity. "Think of the book as a canvas,

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Better, More Surreal Homes and Collages

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My foray into the Wonderful World of Altering Books has greatly enhanced my powers of observation in so many ways. When I flip through magazines, I'm now on the lookout for interesting color schemes. I've always enjoyed southwestern sunsets and those colors are especially appealing to me now. I'm even working on an altered book entitled "Colours", while conducting an independent study of color

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The Top 10 Strategies for Whole Life Success

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For my friends, clients, and colleagues, here is a very informative article, including photos from my home-state paper, the Richmond Times Dispatch.

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Time to 'fess up. One of the reasons I haven't been blogging as regularly as I was last year is that I've been learning a new art. (Not to mention school's back in session!) It's not that the art takes that much time. It's that I've been feeling too unfocused to blog. I got so hung up on focusing that I let myself get overwhelmed (I've been hearing that word a lot from my clients recently.

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The Top 10 Journal-Writing Techniques

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Ritual defined: "a ceremony, particularly formalized, used to fulfill a certain intention" (The Art of Ritual). I am definitely a morning person, so my morning ritual is most important for getting my day off to a good start. As Barbara Sher wrote in Wishcraft "ritual is a terrific antidote for procrastination". Most mornings -- about 6/7-- after meditating, exercising, before breakfast and

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I hadn't heard of this stuff until I moved to Las Vegas 5 years ago. It's the reason there aren't a lot of basements here. It's also the reason it's on my altar. The story: last month I was invited to an event that sounded like a good idea to attend. Notice I didn't say I was excited about it or I wanted to go. It sounded like a good idea, something I SHOULD do. Because I forgot to refrain

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Long time, no blog. I just scrolled through my blog to see 17 draft entries. I'm growing into "Good enough" and today I'm writing and posting. Thanks to Hal Macomber for reminding me what makes a great blog: "Share everything you learn: 'Great web sites share everything they learn and hear (that's relevant of course) with their users...start a newsletter, and you'll get more than you give.'"

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UNESCO has designated next Friday "World Philosophy Day". Yesterday in a workshop on teaching (and learning) enhancement, faculty members were encouraged to write a philosophy of teaching. How many times in my 10-year academic career have I sat down, inspired by some other workshop or book, to do just that only to get up an hour later with only a headache!! I'm working on it -- the philosophy,

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For way too long, I had been procrastinating over a pile, actually an e-file, of student papers to grade. I hate grading. It is my absolutely least favorite part of being a University professor.....UNTIL YESTERDAY! I woke up deciding I couldn't, in good conscience, face my students again without having at least started grading their papers. Reading the Top Ten article The Top 10 Ways to

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In one very challenging day I experienced ALL of the following changes: * a new reporting system for student transcripts, * a new copy machine in the building, * a detour on the way home that wasn't there when I left this morning. By the time I got home, I had the presence of mind to see there must be a message in this pattern. "What is it?" I asked. The reply came from a book I read years

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...when asked with a spirit of allowing and awareness and answered honestly: What do I Really want? What am I afraid of? How can I...? How easy can this be? What can I do Right Now?

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I live in one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. Unfortunately the road-builders can't keep up with the population boom. No matter what route I take to work, to the gym, ... I encounter construction and the traffic snarl that too often accompanies it. I was letting it make me crazy. Then one day, as I was doing a weave merge -- that's when the cars getting off the freeway and

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My favorite organization sites: Get Organized Now -- the monthly checklist keeps me on top of important, but not urgent tasks I would otherwise forget National Association of Professional Organizers -- find a professional to help you get started Paauwerfully Organized -- newsletter is both practical and throught-provoking Home and Life organizing with Oprah featuring Julie Morgenstern

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In the first issue of his "Pure heart, simple mind" newsletter, Charlie Badenhop of Seishindo.org, describes a lesson he learned from an anonymous speaker: "Both my parents were alcoholics, and both of them were physically abusive to me.I grew up never knowing what bad thing would happen next. I learned from my parents that the worst possible way to deal with the pain and uncertainty of life was

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I just finished revising the schedule for my Professional Career Development Course. It’s the first time I’m teaching the course, which I’m delighted to say I designed, and my timing is a bit off. After class Wednesday, I felt so disconnected from my students because of my lack of clarity about the schedule. Once I recognized that I was feeling icky because I had dishonored my core value of

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The word isn't even in the dictionary, BUT I did find it in the blog of a fellow traffic school student. Yep! I learned something in traffic school. Why was I there? 35 in a 50 on the way to play racquetball on Labor Day. I can't blame velocitation, but I was listening a bit too intently to and laughing way to heartily at an especially funny conversation on the Tom Joyner morning show.

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This morning I went to the first session of my altered books class. When I first heard about "ruined books" from a colleague at shool, I gasped with horror. Altering sounds less sacrilegious. Yes, given all that they've given me -- education, inspiration, connection, ... -- I consider books to be sacred. So tearing that first page out of a book was ... a stretch. Funny thing about

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Hey coaches, It's Time to Get Visible & Make a Difference!, asserts personal branding coach Rosemary Davies-Janes. "My recent travels across the North America have verified the huge public need for coaches. I was shocked to learn that most 'civilians' STILL don't clearly understand the value of working with a coach. This problem is exacerbated by many coaches natural reluctance to sell - and the

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HOORAY! I received my first blog comment today, and it wasn't even in this blog. It was in the Career Development blog I set up for one of the courses I'm teaching. The comment was from one of my blogging role models, C. J. Hayden. What I love about C. J.'s blog is that it's a clearly focused authentic promotional tool for her business and an insightful resource for her readers and clients.

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I finally got around to browsing this month's Body & Soul Magazine. As I scarfed (sp) down my breakfast at noon I read about the editor's life-changing experience of a business meeting at a spa.

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In Conversations with God, Book 1 (CWGI), p. 21, we are reminded that there's nothing to learn. We are here "To remember, and re-create, Who You Are". About two weeks ago, I was excited about the show "Starting Over" and recommended it to my clients and coaching colleagues. After watching it for two weeks, I was a bit disappointed .... until I remembered: "This is television, not real life.

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Yesterday, I had a "wherever you go, there you are" conversation with a colleague. This morning, I open my email to find an Abraham-Hicks reading entitled "Reasons for Life" that encourages approaching goals as one would approach a vacation. "Now what we want to do is startle you into the awareness that 'getting it done' is really not what you are looking for. And yet that's what you think. You

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Before leaving the house for campus this morning, I sat with one of my intentions for this year: "I am enjoying soul-satisfying, prosperous, fulfilling work professing, coaching, and writing." So when a colleague showed up at my desk in the advising office, blowing his usually cool head, I felt a coachable moment coming. We started talking and he gave me that song lyric. All I remember from the

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In addition reporting the results of a study on the impact of co-active coach training on emotional intelligence, this article also includes an excellent description of the similarities and differences among coaching, managing, consulting, and training.

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RESULTS Newsletter

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Home and Garden Television: Mission Organization

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FINELIVING: Simplify Your Life

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Coaching World Newsletter: "Did you know the word 'coach' is one of the few English words borrowed from the Hungarian language? John Ayto's Dictionary of Word Origins states that the original form in Hungarian was kocsi szeker, 'cart from Kocs.' Kocs was a village between Budapest and Györ where carriages and carts were made. The word kocsi, an adjective meaning 'of Kocs,' came to mean a

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Not since Cheryl Richardson's "Life Makeover Project" has a television show focused on the power of coaching to facilitate people making positive changes in their lives. At last, the wait is over. CNN has dubbed "Starting Over", a new reality show that debuts September 8th "a 'soaprah'. Okay, I don't particularly care for the characterization and reality shows often represent the lowest common

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Driving home from campus yesterday, I recognized the first week of school was all about contrast, i.e., experiencing what I didn't want -- a parking ticket, a student who only wanted to know if a course was easy before registering for it, being shot down in a committee meeting .... -- so I could make clear and conscious decisions about what I do want. I earnestly want a safe, legal parking space

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One of the reasons I started blogging was to create some accessible storage space. This blog is serving that purpose well. Now when I come across a bloggable (Did I just make up a word?) tidbit, I click on Blog This! or I start a new note in Outlook (if it's an incomplete thought I don't know when I'll get around to completing). As I clear my file cabinets -- my goal is to scale down from 3-

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I've been surfing around to change my blog's description in several services I added -- Blogarama subject directory; Haloscan, commenting service -- when lo and behold on Blogwise, another categorized directory, I saw the comment "Interesting subject matter. original" from Gooberbug Danielle. But, hey she didn't Blogroll Me! As it seems to be this week's theme: "I blogroll myself; therefore, I

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In journaling this morning, a new description for my blog came to me -- "Learning to live the life that is one's own", from the J. California Cooper short story, "The Life You Live (May Not Be Your Own)" in Breaking Ice. That feels much better than the previous description "Be(come)ing and Making the Best Use of a Coach from the Inside-out". The new description is a container spacious and

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Given that The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is the text for my Professional Career Development course, I couldn't resist this blogger's take on them: 7 Habits of Highly Successful Bloggers

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A woman whose company is named WholeLife Mastery -- it's official, there's even a Fictitious Firm Name file with the county clerk -- can't get her WholeLife into one blog. What's up with that? The professor has three blogs, one for each class I teach -- Diversity in Hospitality, Hospitality Human Resource Management, and Professional Career Development. There's one for theWeblogging101 course

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This is the third time in about two weeks that I've spent way too much time hunting down the citation for a quotation. The first one was -- okay, this is getting to be quite funny. A hunt inside a hunt. I went to look for the other two citationless quotations -- both are in this blog, and realized my blog has gotten large enough to need a search tool. Blogger's got a list of possibilities (

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The Well Within Coach posted the Fast Company article "Cultural Revolution", which describes creating "new social structures that harness the power of technological innovation". While blogging is not included on the list, psychological "Flow" and personal renaissance are. For these two structures, the author resolves, respectively: "I will set a 'stretch' goal and invest in learning the skills

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On tonight's Weblogging 101 course, teleclass leader Andy mentioned William Gibson's blog and the impact it had on Gibson's writing routine. I can empathize with Gibson. When I first started my blogs -- I now have four started!, I stopped journaling for a while. OUCH!! Okay, I admit it. I am often a creature of routine and ritual (R and R), and blogging was a new task that has taken me some

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Last night I surfed across several websites on journaling: a truly inspiring article in Personal Journaling Magazine "Life's Sticking Points" by Kay Marie Porterfield. I was so inspired by her powerful questions -- e.g. "Are big issues impeding your progress, or are you being held up by a collection of more minor procrastinations and irritations?" and "What hidden benefit do I derive from this

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"My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restrictions of externally imposed definition." – Audre Lorde “Age Race Class and Sex” in (1984) Sister Outsider, p.121 Inquiry: What part of yourself do you

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I read a lot. Always have. I write a lot. Ditto. Two years ago I put those two favorite activities of mine together and started writing a monthly book review column for my church newsletter. What's that got to do with coaching? Lots! The inspiration to write the column came to me after days of working (in this case the work was all in consciousness -- meditating and journaling -- my two

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Long time, no write, but today I was inspired by a book I'm currently reading and by reading all the energetic messages from new students in Hal's Weblog in a Week course. Their messages reminded me why I started blogging and how important it is to keep up the discipline. Yes, for me, blogging is a spiritual discipline, much like journaling or going to my Abraham-Hicks Study group. My life is

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Sunday a friend and I drove to Sedona for the memorial service of another friend's partner. As I sat in the -- audience isn't quite the right word because we participated more than watched and congregation definitely isn't the word, even though the view of those majestic, magical Sedona mountains behind the lecturn were spiritually awsomely inspiring .... In his lifetime this man lived what felt

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I admit it: I'm having a coaching identity crisis. And while it didn't start with taking the Weblog in a Week course, that certainly catalyzed the process. The first night's assignment was "Why are you blogging?" I gave three reasons (See 6/10/03 Blog entry): to store, to learn, to share what I'm learning. After reviewing my first few blog entries, Hal, the instructor asked "Who's your

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Executive Coaching Graduate Certificate Program

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Looked back over the last two week's entries. Revelation: sometimes WholeLife Mastery means putting it all out there and looking for the thread that holds it together. Or maybe it's more like quilting. I imagine Grandma storing up bits and pieces of fabric until she had enough for a quilt, then pulling them out and using whatever was there to make something warm and beautiful. I'm still "

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Life Coaches Telling Us How to Live reports the results of research conducted by the University of Sydney's coaching psychology unit. Additional reports of coaching-related research are also available.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. -- William Butler Yates "The Second Coming" Inquiry:

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Forming a Retreat Intention

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Yesterday I was looking back through my journal at the vision statement I wrote on 10 April, 2003, for my coaching practice. The visioning exercise was part of the Coach and Grow Rich 90 Challenge. It took me twice to get through the program and it was well worth the re-take. Everything under the heading of “what I need to easily, effectively and effortlessly do my work” is here now. Time to

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I'm taking Hal Macomber's five day teleclass "Weblog in a Week: Become an e-Celebrity!" In her class blog, Bea Fields, one of my classmates describes a tip she got from Laura Hess, who is a member in the Nevada Professional Coaches Association, to which I also belong.

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Right before I went to bed last night, I asked myself what's up with all this water spilling today? I did it at least twice, three times if you count blowing coffee all over the kitchen with the coffee grinder. I let water overflow while filling the coffee carafe, because I was watching Martin Luther at the same time. Before that, I watered a dining room plant to the point of overflow, something

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It's working!! Last month I placed a small ad in my church's newsletter. Following Molly Gordon's "Rule of Threes": name the outcome you want to manifest; consider how you need to be perceived to create that outcome; create three true messages about what, if widely known would bring about this result; choose three venues or media in which to 'place' these messages; distribute the

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Wisdom is where you find it. This morning I was working with a coaching client who described her ideal body type as "Jennifer Aniston-esque". Out of my mouth popped "Did you know it costs her thousands of dollars to maintain that look?". I just spent the last hour looking for the source of that info-bit. According to Dunn & Friedman's "Get a Hollywood Body for Free", (Glamour, June 2003, pp.

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I love Las Vegas!! This morning, I returned 3 videos on philosophy/religion/spirituality to the public library, and got on the waiting list to check out About Schmidt when it comes in. How's that for my tax dollars at work? But in Nevada, with the Legislature in unconsitutional session, that's another story. After the library, I went to Book People, a wonderful independent used bookstore with

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This morning's edition of Workplace Expert Ezine included the article "Not Afraid of the Dark: Executive Coaching In Troubled Times" by Executive Coach Carollyne Conlinn. I followed the article links throught to HR.com, where I found the text of an interview with Marshall Goldsmith "On When Coaching Fails" by David Creelman. Excellent reminder that coaching is not the be-all and end-all to

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At last Friday's Nevada Professional Coaches' Association meeting, the president, Judy Irving, challenged me to get something on my website. Yesterday I asked what she would suggest I start with. She recommended: " I would begin with some info on what coaching is and who uses it. Then I would do a bio on myself and a photo - not only your education, but your likes, dislikes, hobbies,

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Found a blog by the editor of one of my favorite web sites: The Comfort Queen (CQ). "Lain, CQ's fearless editor, has decided that writing polished essays about her life as a work in progress is defeating the point. So she has bravely decided to write a twice a week on-going blog (an on-line journal) of the process of being a woman, a wife, a mother, and a writer. I for one, can't wait to

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Just got back from Compressed Video Classroom training on campus. Hooray! Something else to learn. I also finally have inspiration for using WebCT as more than a grade-posting system. It's also helpful that I'll be using all this technology for a new class. I find it so much easier to learn something totally new than to try to put new wine in old wine skins. That's the title of an article I

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Yesterday I serendipitously surfed upon the Washington Post article "A Coach for 'Team You'", which included the sidebar "How to Get Coached". The article was written by Cecilia Capuzzi Simon, who "regularly writes about psychology for Health". That may explain the article's primary focus on the distinction between coaching and therapy. The article also includes a brief history of the coaching

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Today I attended two webcasts sponsored by Technology Source magazine: "Using WebCT Quizzes in a High-Demand Environment" and "Overcoming Educators' Digital Immigrant Accents". From the former, I'm working with the concept of Mastery Learning in developing my web-based Professional Career Development course. By the latter webcast I was challenged to consider "How can I use games to help

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I've been thinking about starting a blog for weeks now. Time to stop thinking and start acting. As usual, I've done a lot of reading before taking the plunge. In my "Learning to Blog" folder -- if there's a folder, it's a REAL project -- under "Getting Started" I've read Dvorak's "Deconstructing the Blog", which lists Eight Rules for the Perfect Blog, Chapter 3 of "Navigating the Blog Universe

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