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		<title>The Kindness of Strangers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last July, while on business in Washington D.C. , I suffered from an extruiating muscle spasm that was radiating from around the chest wall near my heart over my shoulder blade into my neck, then back down my left arm.  While the symptoms mimicked a heart attack, I knew from experience that this was the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejeffgordon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8630675&amp;post=121&amp;subd=thejeffgordon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Declaration of Interdependence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I examine the dynamics between my own drives and passions and those of the economy as a whole.  I conclude that we can no longer afford to think of ourselves as "free" and independent, nor enslaved and dependent either.  This is the foundation for my campaign to end the recession (EARN) and maintain sustainable peace and prosperity in the future.  We must all sign the declaration of interdependence. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejeffgordon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8630675&amp;post=109&amp;subd=thejeffgordon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t Like Medications. They Make Me Feel Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pain and suffering are two distinctly different ideas.  We have little choice about pain, but much choice about the meaning we make out of it. In this post, I share my recent pain and suffering over a kidney stone followed by a debilitating neck spasm<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejeffgordon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8630675&amp;post=102&amp;subd=thejeffgordon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make Friends, not customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics, Religion and Sex – To be successful in life, we must develop relationships to the point where we can talk about the three things that polite company never talk about.  At that point, they will have moved beyond customer to friend and confidant. Until you can get to that point, stick to sports BrightWise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejeffgordon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8630675&amp;post=89&amp;subd=thejeffgordon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We get back what we give</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If customers are like children, then children are like customers.  That is why we must treat our real customers the way we would treat our children &#8211; as our future.  And if we don&#8217;t take care of our children, we will not be taking care of our own future, because our children are our future.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thejeffgordon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8630675&amp;post=86&amp;subd=thejeffgordon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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