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		<title>Cruel to be Kind?</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2012/02/04/cruel-to-be-kind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked to speak on the subject of kindness this week.  To do so, I realized I had to first wrestle with the meaning of kindness. How can it be applied not just to those easy moments when a &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2012/02/04/cruel-to-be-kind/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>You gotta be flexible</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2011/10/28/you-gotta-be-flexible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law Jinny Combs taught me many things. As one of my most formative bosses, I probably model my leadership style off of hers more than I recognize. I know that I rely on two pieces of constant Jinny advice, &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2011/10/28/you-gotta-be-flexible/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Allow</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/04/20/allow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fool who thinks he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man; But the fool who thinks he is a wise man is rightly called a fool. - Dhammapada 63 Last week a friend suddenly disappeared. Like &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2010/04/20/allow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Selfish Selflessness</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/12/02/selfish-selflessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note To Self – Always remember how you can still recall your parents’ off handed comments from childhood… As an example, my father, an outplacement counselor,  lodged this memory in a still accessible mental file cabinet. Recounting the highlights of &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/12/02/selfish-selflessness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Say Yes</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive. – Arnaud Desjardins Ask a Buddhist what we can count on and he will probably explain that nothing is &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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 &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/09/13/thanking-your-opponents/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Emotions are Contagious</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/31/emotions-are-contagious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I read about the world&#8217;s mourning rituals I notice that you can catch a cold, you can contract the flu, but you can also get a case of sadness or joy from another. Emotions are contagious, which is not &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/08/31/emotions-are-contagious/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner with Job</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/20/dinner-with-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had dinner with Job. Thousands of years after the legend was born, the biblical character Job continues to incarnate in my pedestrian life. On Friday, he visited in the form of a father whose twenty-year-old daughter recently &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/08/20/dinner-with-job/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Play Each Day</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/10/play-each-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A half a dozen years ago, I found myself in a rough patch. Looking at the four seasons of tough times, I had a good four to six months of what in my last post I would have called &#8220;winter.&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/08/10/play-each-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Seasons of Tough Times</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/07/31/the-four-seasons-of-tough-times/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/07/31/the-four-seasons-of-tough-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under the sun… Ecclesiastes 3:1 The belief that every challenge has four distinct stages has occupied a ridiculous amount of my attention over the past dozen years. This is &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/07/31/the-four-seasons-of-tough-times/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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