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		<title>Give Me a Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year at the end of the year, my wife and I sit down and prepare our goals for the next year. This year one of the major things we added to our list was cut those around us, each other, and ourselves a little more slack. Too frequently we wind it so tight and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Hidden Treasures &#8211; Zig Zag Principle #60</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you have been rushing from goal to goal or from zig to zag, have you ever found yourself asking, &#8220;Why am I doing this?&#8221;&#160; If you haven&#8217;t created and implemented a system of rewards for yourself and those around you, you&#8217;re going to find yourself burning out long before you reach your beacon in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picking Up Their Garbage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week I was invited to an early morning meeting. As I was making my way up the freeway, traffic came to an abrupt stop at a point where there shouldn&#8217;t have been any slowing at all. Frustration set in as I spent the next 20 minutes crawling, stopping, creeping along, and barely moving. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richchristiansen.com/2012_01_30_picking-up-their-garbage.html</link>
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		<title>Content Will Always Be King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I just read a contrary post by a friend and associate and someone I respect greatly. This man, Greg Habstritt recently interviewed Dan Kennedy&#8211;one of the world&#8217;s most trusted authorities on direct response marketing, and copywriting. Indeed Kennedy is a brilliant individual; however, I strongly disagreed with his position in the interview. He boldly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Results of Using and Ignoring Guardrails &#8211; Zig Zag Principle #59</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Eating Our Own Cooking In our current test business, Curtis and I received a request from a client that wanted to place a large order for high end, specialty products.&#160; We went to the manufacturer of these products and were able to open an account.&#160; However, when it came time to sign the contract [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richchristiansen.com/2012_01_26_results-of-using-and-ignoring-guardrails-zig-zag-principle-59.html</link>
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		<title>Cherry On Top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A young man named Tanner Greenwood currently works for me. He&#8217;s a fine young man&#8212;a hard worker with bright eyes and good intent. This week Tanner has had a hard, rotten, no good, very bad, good-for-nothing week. It seemed like everything was going wrong for him. He had some car problems, and then some more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richchristiansen.com/2012_01_23_cherry-on-top.html</link>
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		<title>Rich&#8217;s Guardrails (Part 2) &#8211; Zig Zag Principle #58</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; I control the finances of my business I have learned the hard way that every time that I do not keep my finger on the pulse on the finances of my company, it goes into the weeds.&#160; Once, I returned from a vacation in Nepal to find that my partner had obligated us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richchristiansen.com/2012_01_19_richs-guardrails-part-2-zig-zag-principle-58.html</link>
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		<title>Eating Your Own Cooking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night after my family and I finished a meeting in preparation for our trip to Guatemala this summer. Afterward, we stopped into a nearby restaurant for a bite to eat. As we entered the dining room, I noticed the General Manager working at one of the back tables. It was very evident that he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richchristiansen.com/2012_01_17_eating-your-own-cooking.html</link>
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		<title>Rich&#8217;s Guardrails (Part 1) &#8211; Zig Zag Principle #57</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The following are brief elaborations on the rules I have set for myself&#8212;the reasons behind each guardrail.&#160; Again, remember that your circumstances and needs are different from mine, just as each ski slope is different.&#160; The key is that you need to define what guardrails you need in your life. &#160; I will not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richchristiansen.com/2012_01_12_richs-guardrails-part-1-zig-zag-principle-57.html</link>
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		<title>Pain Before the Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the conclusion of Bootstrap Business, I told a story of a young man named Jonathon. I was deeply touched with his story because he had the support of his wife and was willing to make the sacrifice to become an entrepreneur. This past week, I was delighted when Jonathon called and asked to come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richchristiansen.com/2012_01_09_pain-before-the-prize.html</link>
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