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		<title>Dare to try</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2011/05/24/dare-to-try/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 21:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The events going on in Spain  sice the 15th of May are at least interesting, if not fascinating. People have awaken to a new way of political networking, which in fact is not so new. Groups of people discussing about politics must have been the beginning of democracy anyway. It seems that, in the meantime, we had forgotten to speak to each other. Internet has made a huge, global discussion possible. The camps in different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the #Spanishrevolution is all about</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2011/05/21/what-the-spanishrevolution-is-all-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 06:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may know, since the 15th of May thousands of people have taken the streets in Spain to show their discomfort by the Spanish political, social, and economical situation. The movement started in internet in particular in the social networks, is decentralized and ist not organized by any political party. The trigger are the local elections taking place tomorrow, the 22nd of May. The demonstrators plead for many different things, all of them completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About principles</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2011/03/06/about-principles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Principles are beautiful and uncomfortable at the same time. We often sacrifice comfort, easiness, social advantages or money to a principle. We can even create our own anxiety due to principles. A blogger explained how she suffered and struggled before she was able to eat meat again. She had been an important vegan activist for years and had to choose between her own health and veganism. She was putting her health in front of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2011/01/11/making-decissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-procrastination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been two and a half months since I attended the Conscious Growth Workshop of Steve Pavlina in Las Vegas. The workshop gave me a lot: fun, clarity, incredible connections. Regarding my personal growth, the biggest change is a dramatic improvement of my ability to make decisions. In Steve&#8217;s words &#8220;sitting in a place of indecision is unintelligent&#8221;. The &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; state tends to perpetuate itself since nothing changes while I am shaking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditions, freedom, and convenience</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2010/12/21/traditions-freedom-and-convenience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family and I enjoy meeting at Christmas, especially since I live abroad and it takes some logistic effort to get together. We are not religious. We don&#8217;t care too much about what&#8217;s officially celebrated: we get together, take advantage of the fact that everyone has some free days at the same time, and enjoy. Some years ago we celebrated Christmas Eve the 23rd: it just matched our plans better. Some friends of mine celebrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 minutes a day revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2010/11/26/10-minutes-a-day-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-procrastination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life hacking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During my last coaching sessions I discovered a new aspect of the powerful &#8220;10 minutes a day&#8221; technique. Notice the difference: I decided to work an hour a day on my project and I managed three times this week. The other days I didn&#8217;t even get to half an hour. I decided to work at least ten minutes a day on my project and I managed six days out of seven, two of them I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace of mind for the freelancer</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2010/11/18/peace-of-mind-for-the-freelancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I became a freelancer I hear voices inside my head. Am I getting crazy? Creative voices whisper new product ideas, article topics, even whole businesses. They can get really excited. Critical voices tell me to write crisper, talk clearer, be perfect! There are friendly voices (&#8220;Isn&#8217;t life much more exciting than a year ago?&#8221;) and worrying ones (Are you going in the right direction? Do you have enough clients? Do you really have time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the food rules</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2010/11/15/breaking-the-food-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Break the rules&#8221; was the most cheered up and commented recommendation during the Conscious Growth Workshop. Back to my binge-eating fight time this could have been one of my mottoes. Germans say if you don&#8217;t eat up you produce bad weather. Funny: in Spain the same happens if you sing out of tune. Could this explain the different weathers? The story starts as my Physics colleagues and me tried the &#8220;Mathe Mensa&#8221; for lunch. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ultimate post on procrastination</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2010/11/10/the-ultimative-post-on-procrastination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2010/11/10/the-ultimative-post-on-procrastination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-procrastination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life hacking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking about procrastination, there are three strategies to cope with it: Fight it Use it Love it Fight it If you are avoiding that awful, boring, horribly non-sexy task and you definitely have to get it done, follow these steps: Choose a short time, T. Make it so short that failing to work that time is embarrassing. Something like 30 minutes. Sounds doable, doesn&#8217;t it? Set a timer for the time you chose. Work concentrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A pragmatic approach to procrastination</title>
		<link>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2010/11/09/a-pragmatic-approach-to-procrastination/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mariamachon.com/blog/2010/11/09/a-pragmatic-approach-to-procrastination/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>María Machón</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-procrastination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Procrastination is an addiction like any other. Procrastinators are addicted to low threshold, short term satisfaction. They, or rather we need the feeling of having achieved something (cleaning the closet, that all time classic), learning something (surfing the web, the modern variant), or having fun (playing games, etc.). We use these pleasant sensations to override some not-so-pleasant ones. Instead of accepting that we are overwhelmed, instead of facing fear, or the fact that the task [...]]]></description>
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