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			<title><![CDATA[Uncovering Your Passion and Purpose May Require You to Spend Time Alone]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/760/1/Uncovering-Your-Passion-and-Purpose-May-Require-You-to-Spend-Time-Alone/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Uncovering your passion and purpose may require you to spend time
alone. Your greatest thoughts and ideas will come in times of quiet
reflection and stillness. Remember, your purpose is not something you
can just think through and figure out. Instead, it is something that
you feel and experience. It comes from deep inside you.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jim White)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:00:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Fresh Take on Meaning]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/758/1/A-Fresh-Take-on-Meaning/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<img title="" alt="" src="http://talentdevelop.com/images/brainscan.jpg" align="left" border="0" vspace="5" width="45" height="46" hspace="11"/>If we are to find meaning in life, we must pay as much mind to our
limbic hearts as to our neocortical cognitions. Our positive emotions
evoke thought-action tendencies in humans that broaden human attachment
to others and to community service. From thence comes meaning and
purpose.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Misc Author)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:00:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Road to Recovering One's True Self]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/751/1/The-Road-to-Recovering-Ones-True-Self/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The first step along the road to recovering your true Self
is to recognize that you're not who you've thought you
were. It's like you've gone through all your life thinking
you were Bobbie Jones, the child of Mary and Bob Jones,
then you find out on your sixteenth birthday that your real
name is Dale Smith, and your parents are Cindy and Carl.

But, in truth, the case of mistaken identity you've been
living is even more dramatic than that.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Brad Swift)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:30:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Heading Towards a Midlife Crisis?]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/749/1/Heading-Towards-a-Midlife-Crisis/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<img title="" alt="" src="http://www.lifeonpurpose.com/_images/1151.jpg" align="left" border="0" vspace="5" width="60" height="90" hspace="11"/>After dreaming to be a veterinarian since I was
7-years old, I now had my own practice, was well respected in the
community, my brother and I had recently purchased a piece of
investment property in the elite College Hill area where I was now
living and managing the other apartments.

What's going on? Why aren't I happy? Why am I so bored with my life? That was over twenty years ago. I was 36 years of age, and what I
didn't know was that I was on the verge of a midlife crisis.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Brad Swift)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:30:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Sense of Calling]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/721/1/The-Sense-of-Calling/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<img title="" alt="" src="http://talentdevelop.com/images/YourPersRen.jpg" align="left" border="0" vspace="5" width="60" height="92" hspace="11"/>Seeking your calling is a process of discovery that continues
throughout your life, informed by your questions, your conflicts, and
your deepest dreams. It is the journey known by many names, from
Homers Odyssey to the pilgrimage in Dantes Divine Comedy and the
quests of the knights of the round table, to the vision quests of
Native Americans, and the path of the Chinese sage, Lao Tzu. Abraham
Maslow called it self-actualization. Joseph Campbell knew it as the
heros journey.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Diane Dreher)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:30:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[You Can Make an Assessment of Your Abilities in Order to Help Uncover Your Purpose]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/713/1/You-Can-Make-an-Assessment-of-Your-Abilities-in-Order-to-Help-Uncover-Your-Purpose/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You can make an assessment of your abilities in order to help uncover
your purpose. These gifts can be a clue to your purpose; they can help
you fulfill whatever it is you believe you are here to do.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jim White)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:30:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jim White on talent and purpose]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/703/1/Jim-White-on-talent-and-purpose/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[You can make an assessment of your abilities in order to help
uncover your purpose. These gifts can be a clue to your purpose; they
can help you fulfill whatever it is you believe you are here to do.
Talents might include athletic abilities, dexterity, musical talent,
taste, artistic abilities, a sense of humor, comfort with numbers, and
so on.<br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jim White)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:30:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What Is Purpose?]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/705/1/What-Is-Purpose/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while you
meet people who are inspired by their work. They exude enthusiasm. They
appear to care genuinely about what they are doing, the people with
whom they work, and the people they serve. 

      
      They express a joy that
seems to come from deep within... 

      
      When you meet such a
person, you realize that their work is consistent with their purpose.
You might say they are working on purpose. They know why they are
here and they know the difference they want to make.<br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Jim White)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:30:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Meaningful Life, Meaningful Work, Meaningful Days]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/695/1/Meaningful-Life-Meaningful-Work-Meaningful-Days/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<img title="" alt="" src="http://talentdevelop.com/images/VanGoghBlues.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="80" hspace="11" vspace="5" width="50"/>In order for you to live an authentic, meaningful life, which is the
principal remedy for the depression creative people experience, you
must feel that 1) the plan of your life is meaningful, 2) the work you
do is meaningful, and 3) the way your spend your time is meaningful.
These are three separate but related tasks, each with its own logic,
demands, and obstacles.]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Eric Maisel)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:00:00 PDT]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[My Personal Journey Along the Purposeful Path]]></title>
			<link>http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/articles/626/1/My-Personal-Journey-Along-the-Purposeful-Path/Page1.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Now, as I sit watching the exquisite sunrise over the Blue Ridge Mountains, that day in Greensboro [when I was close to suicide] seems to be from a different persons lifeand in many ways it is. I am no longer that confused, scared, lonely young man. And today I can truthfully say my life is filled with purpose and meaning.  ]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Brad Swift)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 May 2008 19:36:25 PDT]]></pubDate>
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