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		<title>Expensive pleasers &#8211; placebos work better the more they appear to cost</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/expensive-pleasers-placebos-work-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an experiment psychologists discovered that placebos which appear to cost more will be more effective in pain management than cheaper placebos. Moreover, if the expensive placebos are apparently discounted they are less effective.
In the experiment, the subjects were given two different placebos (neutral sugar pills). There were identical brochures with the two groups. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>live with your limitations</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/live-limitations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perfectionism is the killer of success &#8211; we are human beings and we all have shortcomings &#8211; be kind and loving to yourself and you&#8217;ll achieve much more.
One of my mentors (Richard Bandler) says that if people said the things that they say to themselves to their children, they may be arrested for verbal abuse. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>trust the Spirit, God, Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Buddha said that life is suffering, and this suffering is caused by  rejection of what is. That is not to say that we should not change our situation or we should not want. Paradoxically accepting what is allows us to change the future much better.
Now the old post:
As I was driving my brand new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>appreciate things in the same way as you appreciated them when they were new</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sex and the male rat &#8211; did I get your attention? When they place a new female rat in the cage of a satiated male rat he becomes interested. But we are human beings and can overcome our physical urges.
We get used to people and things and have the saying familiarity breaths contempt. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be thankful and acknowledge people who help you</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I can date the following old post since I got that new car mentioned in August 2000&#62; I still love the car and have great fun driving it. Now about being thankful &#8211; I make sure that I go out of my way to show appreciation to public servants like, teachers, librarians, fire fighters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>appreciate your adult toys from the perspective of a child</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/adult-toys-perspective-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1379</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jesus said that one of the vest ways of entering the kingdom of God was to be like little children. That&#8217;s because children are delighted by everything, they have fun and always learn. Children have no concept of failure until adults destroy the joy and thrill of life out of them.
When I was a child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expect the best from every one</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago I was taking a two day seminar at an establishment which had a book store. The teacher told us to go to the book store. Take whichever book we may wish to buy home overnight and return it the next day if we weren&#8217;t interested. If we kept any books, we could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop, pause and take a deep breath when things go wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When things go wrong it is too easy to make more mistakes because we are not thinking straight &#8211; doing nothing allows us to calm down and make better decisions. The best rule may be: Never act when your mind is off balance.
Another old post.  Actually the reason I have not posted anything on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>think about the present moment from the perspective of your last day on earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is so precious but we do not appreciate it until we are about to lose it.
Continuing last night&#8217;s article on getting your priorities right, when people are on their death bed, they never regret that they didn&#8217;t spend an extra three hours at work. They don&#8217;t think about that one less toy that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>understand who is the &#8220;boss&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this eleven years ago, The ven happened about twenty five years ago. It is even more apt today than then. Our mad quest for more, more, more has meant less, less, less quality of life, and in fact the current financial disaster for the American middle and working classes may have been caused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know when to cut your losses</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/cut-losses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Successful managers decide slowly but decisively &#8211; they keep persisting with their decision but know when to cut their losses and then change direction rapidly.
Note this is another of those old posts from 1999. My hard disk did not crash two days ago. In reality I would be even less prepared. I have many more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach whatever you need to learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1360</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are all public communicators. Most communicate through speaking. Some like Stephen Hawking have to speak with aid of a computer or other form of sign system. The one thing that distinguishes human beings from other animals os that we learn from others and teach others and our total information pool increases from one generation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continue on in spite of adversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a post from 1999. I do not remember what the project was. The point is that persistence is one of the most important indicators of success &#8211; as Woody Allen says, &#8220;Success is 90 percent showing up.&#8221;
Talking about persistence it is important to set yourself up for success. I mentioned earlier that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use waiting time for saying your affirmations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of the Hippocratic oath that each physician has to say before becoming a doctor is, &#8220;First do no harm.&#8221;
Some people swear blind on the positive effect of affirmations. I use them a huge amount.  I know that when repeating a short positive phrase I&#8217;ll not be able to keep my mind on any negative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do the right thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a true story. A friend of ours who is a published author recently wrote a book proposal and sent it to her agent.
The agent who liked the work presented it to her publisher. The publisher loved the idea. They were very interested in the work, they wanted to publish it.
They just had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow your bliss</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1349</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the following 1999:
Joseph Campbell used to say follow your bliss.
In a study of the Harvard 1953 graduating class 97 percent of the students chose their careers based on earning as much money as possible. The other 3 percent chose their occupations because they loved the jobs in question. In a follow up twenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You are not the target</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/target-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1345</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this around 1999 and the sentiment is still true:
I was cleaning the pool and ended up making a loud noise near Fred (the mangy cat). Now all I was doing was cleaning the pool and I had absolutely no intention of harming Fred. However, that&#8217;s not the way he saw things.
Fred has obviously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accept your teachers, wherever you find them</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/accept-teachers-find/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/?p=1341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are lessons in life all over the place &#8211; it is a question of noticing and learning &#8211; being teachable:
There is an idea among ancient philosophical schools which may be paraphrased as, &#8220;Each of us is a teacher to all others and we each are the students of all others.&#8221;
In Iran we have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate a pagan holiday</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/celebrate-pagan-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously the following post was written for May 1, 1999 or 2000. As I think about it our holidays especially Christmas are so commercialized that they end up being as much a chore and source of sorrow and depression as they are source of laughter and joy.
So returning to a simpler past and just celebrating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accept what is</title>
		<link>http://lifefocuscenter.com/blog/accept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DoctorJay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accept whatever is. You cannot do otherwise. You can only imagine that you are resisting what is.
This comes from one of my mentors Dick Sutprhen. He quotes the Buddha when he says that all human problems arise from not accepting whatever is. As the serenity Prayer says, &#8220;Lord, grant me the courage to change what [...]]]></description>
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