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	<title>Comments on: Celebrating Baby Steps</title>
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		<title>By: Jean</title>
		<link>http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/06/30/celebrating-baby-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-2094</link>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Diane,
I&#039;m glad you liked it.  Good for you for taking belly dancing.  I know what you mean about rewiring our brains.  My husband and I take dance classes, not belly dancing but still fun.  :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diane,<br />
I&#8217;m glad you liked it.  Good for you for taking belly dancing.  I know what you mean about rewiring our brains.  My husband and I take dance classes, not belly dancing but still fun.  <img src='http://cheerfulmonk.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Diane</title>
		<link>http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/06/30/celebrating-baby-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-2092</link>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>jean,
I love the article  and Einsteins quote as well!

The first time I looked at that picture from your other article. I laughed at my pile of books... 


I took a belly dancing class last year. Talk about hard so much rewiring going on... its fun to learn a new thing! And the smiles and laughter that come are the best.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jean,<br />
I love the article  and Einsteins quote as well!</p>
<p>The first time I looked at that picture from your other article. I laughed at my pile of books&#8230; </p>
<p>I took a belly dancing class last year. Talk about hard so much rewiring going on&#8230; its fun to learn a new thing! And the smiles and laughter that come are the best.</p>
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		<title>By: Zen blogs : btwendel.com</title>
		<link>http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/06/30/celebrating-baby-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1192</link>
		<dc:creator>Zen blogs : btwendel.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Jean</title>
		<link>http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/06/30/celebrating-baby-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1181</link>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shilpan,
:) Thanks for the kind words.  I saw your &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.successsoul.com/2008/06/29/albert-einsteins-7-lessons-from-the-school-of-hard-knocks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article on Einstein&lt;/a&gt; and thought it was great.  I especially liked the quote, “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”  I&#039;ve actually written a draft of a post using that quote.  I&#039;ve always been highly motivated, but it sure hasn&#039;t been for the conventional idea of success.  It sounds as if we&#039;re kindred spirits there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shilpan,<br />
 <img src='http://cheerfulmonk.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Thanks for the kind words.  I saw your <a href="http://www.successsoul.com/2008/06/29/albert-einsteins-7-lessons-from-the-school-of-hard-knocks/" rel="nofollow">article on Einstein</a> and thought it was great.  I especially liked the quote, “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”  I&#8217;ve actually written a draft of a post using that quote.  I&#8217;ve always been highly motivated, but it sure hasn&#8217;t been for the conventional idea of success.  It sounds as if we&#8217;re kindred spirits there.</p>
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		<title>By: Shilpan &#124;  successsoul.com</title>
		<link>http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/06/30/celebrating-baby-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1179</link>
		<dc:creator>Shilpan &#124;  successsoul.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jean ~

I loved the quote from you and Einstein both. I just wrote an article on Einstein and the response if overwhelming. It proves the greatness of this man who contributed so much to this modern world despite starting lackluster life by the world standard of smartness.

You always inspire me with short, sometimes witty but always profound thoughts..

Shilpan</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jean ~</p>
<p>I loved the quote from you and Einstein both. I just wrote an article on Einstein and the response if overwhelming. It proves the greatness of this man who contributed so much to this modern world despite starting lackluster life by the world standard of smartness.</p>
<p>You always inspire me with short, sometimes witty but always profound thoughts..</p>
<p>Shilpan</p>
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		<title>By: Jean</title>
		<link>http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/06/30/celebrating-baby-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1171</link>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robin,
Amen to that!  That&#039;s the one thing I really learned teaching stress management.  Making the commitment to doing something is the most important step.  Once one does that learning the &quot;how&quot; is fairly simple.

I learned to play the piano as an adult.  I had wanted to learn when I was a child and never had the chance.  I took some lessons when I got out of college, but there was too much going on to practice.  So I decided when I had a child I would learn when he/she did.  I kept that promise and took for several years once my daughter turned 8 and started taking lessons.  I practiced at least a half hour or an hour every day and loved it.  It still warms my heart to think of it.  :) Thanks for reminding me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robin,<br />
Amen to that!  That&#8217;s the one thing I really learned teaching stress management.  Making the commitment to doing something is the most important step.  Once one does that learning the &#8220;how&#8221; is fairly simple.</p>
<p>I learned to play the piano as an adult.  I had wanted to learn when I was a child and never had the chance.  I took some lessons when I got out of college, but there was too much going on to practice.  So I decided when I had a child I would learn when he/she did.  I kept that promise and took for several years once my daughter turned 8 and started taking lessons.  I practiced at least a half hour or an hour every day and loved it.  It still warms my heart to think of it.  <img src='http://cheerfulmonk.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Thanks for reminding me.</p>
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		<title>By: Robin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s an interesting issue - many people are put off learning a musical instrument as an adult because they see other people already doing it so well (eg kids), rather than doing it for their own enjoyment. 

It&#039;s funny, but I&#039;ve had no difficulty learning about making websites and now a blog, in the last couple of years - I guess if anyone really wants to do something, they find a way and comparisons with other people just fall by the wayside.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s an interesting issue &#8211; many people are put off learning a musical instrument as an adult because they see other people already doing it so well (eg kids), rather than doing it for their own enjoyment. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s funny, but I&#8217;ve had no difficulty learning about making websites and now a blog, in the last couple of years &#8211; I guess if anyone really wants to do something, they find a way and comparisons with other people just fall by the wayside.</p>
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		<title>By: Jean</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>:) Thanks, Robert!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <img src='http://cheerfulmonk.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Thanks, Robert!</p>
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		<title>By: Robert A. Henru</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert A. Henru</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice picture Jean! All the best with your baby steps =D
Robert</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice picture Jean! All the best with your baby steps =D<br />
Robert</p>
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