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		<title>Formal requirements getting in the way of your dream career?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Formal requirements for career progression are a common barrier to professions in which a degree or a certificate of equivalent standing is a mandatory stepping stone for future growth. The obvious challenge in obtaining the satisfactory prerequisites in education and work is the system&#8217;s general lack of flexibility in accepting substitutions. For instance, many people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=236&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing your own stagnation as a signal of the changing tide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all experienced the feeling of being stuck, unable or unwilling for whatever reason to do anything right (or so it seemed). This is called stagnation. All in all, stagnation is not a bad thing.  It’s frustrating, certainly, and not productive, but the reality is that every field has these moments, and they are an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=209&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Responsibility: terrible burden or wonderful proving ground?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responsibility The challenges of what&#8217;s called &#8220;life balance&#8221; are abundant. Modern living, particularly in the Western world, places higher and higher &#8220;upkeep&#8221; demands on our lifestyles &#8211; reducing not just our net available time, but the available attention we can afford to direct towards any given thing &#8211; to a minimum. In the context of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=204&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming financial hardships on our path to progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are 2 major ways in which finances can inhibit continuous pursuit of knowledge and conscious growth; Not being able to afford the resources necessary to pursue desired activities and path of growth. An example of this may be not being able to afford further education, or having excessive debt that ties up too much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=165&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to leverage failure as a precursor to success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Key concept: Failure is subjective, meaning that it triggers different things for different people. Failure in any form often seems contagious: bad things and disappointments in life all tend to come all at once. Ever wondered why that happens? Actually, it has to do with our own predisposed expectation, and several key universal concepts that play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=152&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mastering our unique individual perspective</title>
		<link>http://thezov.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One&#8217;s perspective is potentially the biggest component of the Labyrinth of Adversity, affecting all aspects of thinking and judgment with respect to people and situations.  It has the capacity to utterly entrap in or spontaneously disillusion us from all of our limitations, as well as the capacity to change unpredictably due to circumstance or seeming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=147&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using outside resistance as a launchpad for progress</title>
		<link>http://thezov.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/learning-to-utilize-outside-resistance-as-leverage-for-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not unusual for all new ideas, plans, and actions to encounter some measure of resistance from established systems and the people within them. To some extent, it is inevitable that they must be tested against that which is already in place before they can be accepted.  This has been true of all great visionaries [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=129&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to manage stress and preserve (or restore) lasting vitality</title>
		<link>http://thezov.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stress has the capacity to be both beneficial and detrimental.  It can sharpen the senses, provide extra energy in times of need, and temporarily “enhance” our perception.   On the flip side, it can take away from our ability to cope with problems effectively, implement timely solutions, and worst of all, it can destroy our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=123&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How self-sabotage can keep us from living the very life we strive for</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defining self-sabotage can be tricky, because it can take place in so many different forms. For now, let’s consider a simple definition: Not allowing oneself to have that which is rightfully deserved, usually due to an internal conflict. Self-sabotage is the ultimate misalignment of action and intent.  Usually, it is characterized by one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=119&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ambiguity and the pursuit of self-actualization</title>
		<link>http://thezov.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/ambiguity-and-the-pursuit-of-self-actualization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whereas uncertainty is not knowing what will happen, ambiguity is a matter of not knowing what to do. One is a matter of faith and self confidence, and the other is a matter of competence and skill. Why does this happen? Ask yourself truthfully the following questions: Have I done my due diligence? Due diligence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezov.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7246960&amp;post=110&amp;subd=thezov&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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