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	<title>Life and Tales of a Geeky  Designer Chick</title>
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		<title>7 Tried-and-True Ways to Block Your Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spxds</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA['LiveCreative' weekly ezine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[7 Tried-and-True Ways to Block Your Creativity
by Christine Kane

"I'm totally blocked."

"I'm not creative."


"I can't even begin to work on all these ideas I get."

These statements have one thing in common.

They're all totally false.

Like it or not. You ARE creative. You have no choice but to be creative. It's your nature!

Yea yea yea. I know. It's WAY uncool of me to point that out.

After all, if you're really truly creative, then [gasp!] you might actually have to do something about it! Who wants that?

Some people spend years perfecting the art of stuffing down their creative impulses, convincing themselves of their lack of talent and ideas.

How do they do it?

Well, let me show you the way! I've been there a time or two. And here are seven of my Tried-and-True Ways to Block Your Creativity...


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		<title>Still Spinning Around</title>
		<link>http://www.purplestars.com/2009/06/23/still-spinning-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spxds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still around, but have been doing a lot lately. Just this past week it had was two years since the &#8220;wreck&#8221; So instead of staying home T and  I traveled to visit  some of my dad&#8217;s family, since that&#8217;s the only closest family I have now. Most of my mom&#8217;s family is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgraded</title>
		<link>http://www.purplestars.com/2009/06/10/upgraded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spxds</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stars mel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I just upgraded the blog to 2.8 of Wordpress, which was simple enough to do. I hope I can finally finish  and launch the new long awaited design for the blog. It&#8217;s been a long time coming.
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		<title>Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://www.purplestars.com/2009/05/24/memorial-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 14:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spxds</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[memorial day 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Has been a long weekend since Memorial Day on Monday and most of the US has that day off. Tomorrow (despite  the rain here), will be filled with cookouts and family outings. I always enjoy Memorial Day as kid, because I knew school would be out soon for summer.
I hope everyone has a safe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird  Sleeping</title>
		<link>http://www.purplestars.com/2009/05/23/weird-sleeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 08:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spxds</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[night owl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sleeping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[working]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, for me I&#8217;ve been on a weird sleeping schedule. I&#8217;m either on GMT or PST time zone. Which if I were to fly to either to the West Coast or to London I would not have much jet lag at all, which is good I guess.  I have always been a night owl [...]]]></description>
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