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	<description>Free your mind.</description>
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		<title>Peak Performance for Fred Sirieix</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Fred Sirieix (General Manager for Galvin at Windows) asked me to help him to prepare for the world famous Marathon du Medoc. I thought it would be a great opportunity to demonstrate how changing your mindset can have a direct effect on your performance. We met in the restaurant on the 28th floor of the Hilton hotel on Park ...]]></description>
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		<title>How do you feel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the day your state of being will change, how you feel about yourself and the situation you are in. This state will determine your ability to respond to situations and the outcome / results you will achieve. Some states are useful and empowering, whilst other states limit our ability to act or respond in an effective way. Factors that ...]]></description>
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		<title>5 steps to a great life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of my clients want to improve their life in some way and they often ask me “How can I make the time to work on improving my life when I have so much to do already? How do I make a plan and stick to it? How can I stay focused and motivated when there are so many demands ...]]></description>
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		<title>Motivating yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You often hear people say “I just don’t have the motivation” or “I need more motivation”. They talk about motivation as if it is a ‘thing’ that they either have or need. Many of us think in this way. This starts to become a problem when we confuse this way of thinking with how it really is. Motivation is not ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mayfair Times interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erik Brown from the Mayfair Times interviews James Stokes. Published at the beginning of each month for a target audience of 80,000 readers in Mayfair and St James&#8217;s. A typical Mayfair Times reader is either a resident in a luxury property, a business occupier or a wealthy visitor staying at one of Mayfair and St James&#8217;s exclusive hotels. Visit Mayfair ...]]></description>
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		<title>Public speaking : eye contact</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently talking to someone about public speaking and presentation skills. He’d been on a number of presentation and public speaking training courses and as we spoke he kept talking about eye contact and the importance of making eye contact with the audience when presenting. For me, eye contact is a concept; it’s not something you can do. There ...]]></description>
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		<title>Delegating Effectively</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 11:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being able to delegate effectively in a way that leaves people feeling good is a key skill for all successful managers and leaders. The desired outcome from delegation is to move something from our domain into someone else&#8217;s. The purpose of this is to develop the other person&#8217;s skills, and to free us up so we too can develop and take on ...]]></description>
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