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		<title>Finding Your Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Hoffman</dc:creator>
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For me, blogging is hard. In fact, all writing tends to be an arduous process &#8211; tough break for someone that wants to be a writer. It&#8217;s not that I can&#8217;t write, it&#8217;s my inability to find the time and focus to write.
At any given moment, my mind is swerving from one activity to another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Always On</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jason Hoffman</dc:creator>
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Recently, I had the opportunity to hear from Peter Roberts, CEO of the Chicago based Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, about his rise to the top in one of the nation’s leading real estate investment and management companies. Though I pondered not attending the early breakfast presentation to continue enjoying the comforts of my new sheets, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Accurate Insight On Time Management</title>
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Creating a to-do list before attacking the day is a popular time management tip, as is the concept of an ignore list. The article An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day by Peter Bregman does a good job of summarizing the benefits of planning your next 24 hours, and, takes them a step further  by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Incredibly Productive Activities for the Recently Unemployed Millennial</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jason Hoffman</dc:creator>
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&#8220;OMG! You lost your job? What are you going to do?&#8221;
If a phrase strikingly similar to the one above recently graced the pixels of your Facebook/Twitter/Myspace/AIM account, it&#8217;s likely you&#8217;re a Millennial, and, also likely that you lost your job.
Don&#8217;t fret my friend. Though it may seem that your career progress has stopped dead in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing upward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Hoffman</dc:creator>
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I don’t mesh with my boss. It’s not my fault, or her’s. We’re just different people. She’s a focused, detail oriented woman from the Left Coast, and I’m a laissez-faire, speed-before-accuracy man from the Midwest.
Should I quit? No.
Clicking with everyone you encounter in the world of business is impossible and working well with people is [...]]]></description>
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