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	<title>What I&#039;ve Learned So Far</title>
	<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog</link>
	<description>Brutal honesty, kindly delivered from a working writer in the corporate world.</description>
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		<title>The return of #beastmode.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love lifting weights, but I&#8217;ve let it slip from my schedule. Not anymore, though. For the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve been reincorporating deadlifts and bench presses into my schedule, bit by bit, using the weights in my garage. But today I returned to the scene of my greatest lifting exploits (he said, tongue firmly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2012/05/06/the-return-of-beastmode/</link>
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		<title>Is it writing? Or something else?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote a little story, &#8220;Aboard,&#8221; that I published here. Sometimes I&#8217;ll do this&#8211;take a story idea and run with it to see what I can do with it quickly. In this case, my prompt came from a Twitter exchange. Regardless of the specific origin, the point is to write, write quickly, and avoid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2012/04/15/is-it-writing-or-something-else/</link>
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		<title>Aboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been on this train for nine years. That&#8217;s nine years without seeing my family, without a vacation, without the touch of a woman other than the working girls who operate in the last car between Station 16 and Station 23. (In theory we don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re there, but how could we not? In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2012/04/14/aboard/</link>
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		<title>My first half-marathon experience.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me start with a confession: this whole premise is a lie. I did not, in fact, participate in the Zooma half-marathon, held yesterday in the hinterlands of Austin. I registered for it, got my race packet, the whole thing. And I did assault a half-marathon distance on the appointed day. But I didn&#8217;t go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2012/04/01/my-first-half-marathon-experience/</link>
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		<title>Commonplace: Henry James on living in the world of creation.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To live in the world of creation—to get into it and stay in it—to frequent it and haunt it—to think intently and fruitfully—to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation—this is the only thing—and I neglect it, far and away too much; from indolence, from vagueness, from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2012/03/17/commonplace-henry-james-on-living-in-the-world-of-creation/</link>
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		<title>Transferable Skills: Finishing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start with a little story. A friend of mine once asked me for career advice. I pointed him to the series I had written up on job-hunting a while before. We got together after that, ostensibly to go over his resume, but really to help him think through what alternate paths he might like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2012/03/14/transferable-skills-finishing/</link>
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		<title>Half a month down in 2012: Are Your Priorities Showing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a topic I covered a while back in a column on showing, rather than telling, your priorities, but here it is in a nutshell . . . There&#8217;s no sense in bothering with excuses &#8212; least of all to yourself &#8212; for what your priorities have been. Just acknowledge that your behaviors have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2012/01/15/half-a-month-down-in-2012-are-your-priorities-showing/</link>
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		<title>211 Workouts.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I set a new personal record in the deadlift. That workout was #211 of the year, meaning that I met the goal I set for myself earlier this year. Three things I&#8217;ve figured out from this: 211 workouts is not actually a lot for a year. It&#8217;s more than most people do, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2011/12/31/211-workouts/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t make it more complicated than it is.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When something is legitimately complicated, we have an easy out: we&#8217;re not supposed to get it / learn it / master it on the first go, and we can even elicit others&#8217; sympathy for making an effort. &#8220;You&#8217;re reading Ulysses? I&#8217;m too scared to even try.&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;re taking organic chem? That would be totally over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2011/12/27/dont-make-it-more-complicated-than-it-is/</link>
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		<title>Morning weights.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early-morning weights to make the blood sing. Quiet and still, the air begs to be riven by plate on plate. Yoga if it moves you, or running; the cold swim; writing That Thing which lurks in shadows of hurly- burly days. Pray, sip, think; meditate, prostrate your Self to some Thing larger— or beyond. Early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tewalkerjr.com/blog/2011/11/16/morning-weights/</link>
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