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		<title>Be Thankful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be thankful that you don&#8217;t already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward to? Be thankful when you don&#8217;t know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn. Be thankful for the difficult times. During those times you grow. Be thankful for your limitations, because they give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/inspirational/be-thankful/</link>
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		<title>Lesson #4  The difficulty of delegating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is better to have one person working with you than to have three people working for you.  President Dwight D. Eisenhower In World War 1, the Generals of the British army on the Western Front delegated the task of engaging the German army, to the soldiers.  Their assignment was to literally kill as many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/lessons/f-word-lesson-4-the-difficulty-of-delegating-2/</link>
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		<title>Lesson #3 People aren’t going to act the way you want them to act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can never stand in the same river twice.  Old American Indian saying. And you never meet the same person twice. Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie, in a talk titled “The danger of a single story” explains how so often we hear only one story about a person or a country or even a situation, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/uncategorized/lesson-3-people-aren%e2%80%99t-going-to-act-the-way-you-want-them-to-act-2/</link>
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		<title>Lesson #2 Focus or Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Choose one chair If I were to prepare a bucket list, listening to Luciano Pavarotti sing live would have been on it.  And I was extremely privileged to experience this in one of his last live performances in Pretoria shortly before his death. What made Pavarotti so incredible and universally recognized and loved?  I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/lessons/lesson-2-focus-or-fail/</link>
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		<title>Lesson #1 Business isn’t right for everybody</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society &#8212; more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman For people who value business and money and financial independence, the issues of business are important.  We consume information about business and probably network with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/lessons/lesson-1-business-isn%e2%80%99t-right-for-everybody-2/</link>
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		<title>F Word Lessons for 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a year and a half since my franchise business failed and I lost all my money and learnt a whole book full of lessons.   Eighteen months is a good time to stop and reflect in a world where the entire business landscape can change in a mere six months.   And since there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/introduction/f-word-lessons-for-2011/</link>
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		<title>The Oyster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(just for fun) There once was an oyster whose story I tell, Who found that sand had got under his shell; Just one little grain, but it gave him much pain, For oysters have feelings although they’re so plain. Now, did he berate the working of Fate Which had led him to such a deplorable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/inspirational/the-oyster/</link>
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		<title>Letting go to get more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a meeting with some business women the other day, I heard a comment that blew my mind for the sheer boldness of it. One of the women who owns and runs her own business, recounted when she faced one of those the life changing points in her career.  She had a young child and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/silver-lining-stories/letting-go-to-get-more/</link>
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		<title>Winners and losers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In any contest there are winners and losers.  The winners do not get to enjoy their victory without the losers being able to afford them fist place by taking the losing position. We all want that first place and strive for it, even if part of us knows that it is unattainable.   And regardless of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/uncategorized/winners-and-losers/</link>
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		<title>What we need is mature bull elephants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have wanted to be able to express something about the leadership situation in our country for some time, but really struggled to find the right tone, or approach.  Even now I am so conflicted that it is difficult to convey, in a short blog, the full expression of what we are seeing happen in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://50lessonslearned.nichetraining.co.za/uncategorized/what-we-need-is-mature-bull-elephants/</link>
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