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		<title>Notes vs. Face to Face</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a frustrated note today to our neighbor. It said something like &#8220;Please take responsibility for your dog. It was in our yard today.  It tore the pond liner. When I try to take it back home it BITES me. Please send me your contact information. If you don&#8217;t come get your dog within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Care Sooner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Countless times in life I&#8217;ve found myself apologizing for something. Fairly regularly I find myself apologizing for not doing something or another. You know that feeling that you have when you let someone else down? I know I sure hate that feeling. I&#8217;ve found so many times that we end up not caring until it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules, if you will.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few things that I try to live by that I haven&#8217;t put into words until now. These aren&#8217;t easy to follow. Never, ever, ever Do anything that in any way de-values another person. Tell someone that they are stupid. Tell someone that they have a bad idea. Insinuate that another person is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week Prep</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have this planned event on my calendar on Sunday nights. It&#8217;s called &#8220;week prep&#8221; and I try to do it every week. I make sure I&#8217;m not behind on emails, see what the week&#8217;s going to look like. The problem with this &#8220;week prep&#8221; is that I get latched onto something in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you want from me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve gotten these emails. You read it, stare at the screen and think, &#8220;What do you want from me?&#8221; You pick up the phone or walk over to the person&#8217;s desk and say, &#8220;What are you asking?&#8221; You read the email and can&#8217;t figure out just what they are wanting you to do.  You may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Draft</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week there&#8217;s been a common theme that has come up that has intrigued me. It&#8217;s the difference between communicating &#8220;done&#8221; and &#8220;draft&#8221;. When work is sent to me on a project that I&#8217;m responsible for, I have completely different feedback if I think you&#8217;re &#8220;done&#8221; vs it&#8217;s a &#8220;draft&#8221; you&#8217;re showing me. You come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirabelle Eloise Gratigny</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a girl! At least the doctor *thinks* it&#8217;s a girl. As the doctor was moving the little thing around and our skeleton, I mean baby, was being shown on the black and white screen&#8230;. I was thinking one word. Pink. We&#8217;re going to have a pink room! Am I disappointed that we&#8217;re having a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The boy who cried wolf</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve read the story about The Boy Who Cried Wolf, right? Could this be you? I think this story tells us a lot about what we do to get attention. I&#8217;ve seen so many people create a crisis just so they are heard. You can avoid crisis in your life, so you don&#8217;t cry wolf. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boy &#8230;. Girl?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<title>Where do you Find Creativity?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisgratigny.com/2010/06/21/where-do-you-find-creativity/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creativity is something that you do on a daily basis. It doesn&#8217;t matter what you do. There is creativity involved in anything that you do. When I was doing interviews of designers there was a question that we asked everyone. &#8220;How do you create when you don&#8217;t feel inspiration?&#8221; There&#8217;s a few things I&#8217;ll do. [...]]]></description>
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