<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Playing Well at Work and Beyond &#187; Tough times</title>
	<atom:link href="http://playingwell.org/tag/tough-times/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://playingwell.org</link>
	<description>Cross-cultural strategies for transforming conflict and other life challenges</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:30:07 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Check out lifebyme.com</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2011/04/10/check-out-lifebyme-com/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2011/04/10/check-out-lifebyme-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=1247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I was asked to write an essay for www.lifebyme.com and today it is being featured on their home page! I hope you check out &#8220;Paradox&#8221; and find it of interest. As always, thank you for your &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2011/04/10/check-out-lifebyme-com/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2011/04/10/check-out-lifebyme-com/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Say Yes</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross cultural strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[positive psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=811</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Emotions are Contagious</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/31/emotions-are-contagious/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/31/emotions-are-contagious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross cultural strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managing emotions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=739</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/31/emotions-are-contagious/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Dinner with Job</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/20/dinner-with-job/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/20/dinner-with-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross cultural strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=723</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/20/dinner-with-job/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Play Each Day</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/10/play-each-day/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/10/play-each-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross cultural strategies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=710</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2009/08/10/play-each-day/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Workshops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross cultural strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Way of Conflict]]></category>

		<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>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2009/07/31/the-four-seasons-of-tough-times/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Creative Process</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/07/12/the-creative-process/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/07/12/the-creative-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playing well]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My creative spirit can be quite moody. Sometimes she wants to play for weeks, dropping by at all hours with seductive ideas and pretty accoutrements for what I’m developing. I can’t keep up, she jostles me awake at 3 am &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/07/12/the-creative-process/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2009/07/12/the-creative-process/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Shifting focus to overcome challenges</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/23/shifting-focus-to-overcome-challenges/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/23/shifting-focus-to-overcome-challenges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death and dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Thriving Through Tough Times tip,  “Give to your community so you can fully recover,” I have been trying to justify it a bit backwards. With the other techniques, I noticed their appearance in many different traditions and thought, &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/06/23/shifting-focus-to-overcome-challenges/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/23/shifting-focus-to-overcome-challenges/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Give back to Come Back</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/13/give-back-to-come-back/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/13/give-back-to-come-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross cultural strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death and dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery strategies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For it is in giving we receive – Saint Francis of Assisi  I know something to be true. My friend Jerry White, has built his organization, Survivor Corps, around this same fact &#8212; if you want to fully return to &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/06/13/give-back-to-come-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/13/give-back-to-come-back/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Standing at the First Gate</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/06/standing-at-the-first-gate/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/06/standing-at-the-first-gate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tough times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross cultural strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/06/06/standing-at-the-first-gate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://playingwell.org/2009/06/06/standing-at-the-first-gate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

