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		<title>As in soccer, as in life</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/06/27/as-in-soccer-as-in-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was tracking the World Cup statistics from FIFA.com, I found myself recalling a local soccer match I had watched with my mother a few weeks ago. Based in California, my OD consultant mum was in town for the weekend and accompanied our family to Billings for a state tournament.
We both shook our heads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin Connolly &#8212; Playing Well at the X Games</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/02/01/kevin-connolly-playing-well-at-the-x-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have to let you all know that our friend Kevin Connolly just took 3rd place in mono ski at the X Games! To get a sense of what that means, click here for a short ESPN clip of the final run&#8230;This is not skiing for the faint of heart.
I have to sing Kevin&#8217;s praises since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs &#8212; Three Tenets of Playing Well</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/01/17/steve-jobs-three-tenets-of-playing-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. &#8212; Bertrand Russell
When I recently found a YouTube version of Steve Jobs&#8217; 2005 Stanford commencement speech, I was not surprised to see the 1.5 million &#8220;hits&#8221; to date. This became one of my personal favorites when its transcript appeared in my inbox soon after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Stories</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/12/22/the-power-of-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Sunny calls it, &#8220;the Friday morning weep-fest.&#8221; After last week I&#8217;d have to agree. Driving downtown, I too had tears rolling down my cheeks listening to National Public Radio&#8217;s latest selection from the Storycorps Project.
Storycorps is an oral history project begun in 2003 where tens of thousands of everyday people have interviewed family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Happening</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/11/21/its-happening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I attended a lecture by the biochemist Trevor Douglas. Trevor is one of Montana State University&#8217;s rock stars who investigates how viruses could become mini-containers to bring targeted drug therapy directly to a cancer site. As his compatriot Dr. Mark Young once described to me, &#8220;Think of the outer casing of a virus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing through Delight</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/11/14/changing-through-delight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Play is the exultation of the possible &#8212; Martin Buber
I&#8217;m guessing by now you&#8217;ve noticed that in &#8220;playing well at work and beyond&#8221;, I recommend embracing the &#8220;play&#8221; portion of that statement. When we do, life can become a game that rewards practice, detachment (&#8220;it&#8217;s only a game&#8221;) and most of all having fun.
Always looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Mother Bear</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/10/27/going-mother-bear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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I remember twenty years ago when our son Cameron was a newborn and my husband and I ventured bravely from the suburbs to downtown Washington, DC on the Metro. He must have been three weeks old or so, as Cameron lay on my shoulder sleeping. A man across the aisle looked at the sleeping baby, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping it Real</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/09/22/keeping-it-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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I smiled listening to Michael Jordan honor his beloved sister and brothers as some of his valuable opponents when composing last week’s post. I get it; when I wrote The Way of Conflict, I began the introduction by telling the story of how I grew up fighting with my three sisters. 
These are three of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanking Your Opponents</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/09/13/thanking-your-opponents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony occurred last Friday. That&#8217;s a point to which I wouldn&#8217;t have paid much attention &#8212; if you ever saw me try to play basketball you&#8217;d understand why &#8212; except that this year Michael Jordan showed up to model how to play well, this time off the court.

Jordan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fun + purpose = playing well at work</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/09/05/fun-purpose-playing-well-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/09/05/fun-purpose-playing-well-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle

Meaning is a form of strength. It has the power to transform experience, to open the most difficult of work to the dimension of joy and even gratitude. Meaning is the language of the soul. – Rachel Naomi Remen 







A Montana State University Honors Instructor Lori [...]]]></description>
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