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		<title>Checks and Balances, the game of pool and the straight and narrow&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The beauty of western governments is that they&#8217;ve known this for a long time. Countries like America and Canada reacted to this idea because they had to live under monarchies and they saw first hand the corruption of such systems.  As a result, what they tried to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rukhsanakhan.com/2012/02/checks-and-balances-the-game-of-pool-and-the-straight-and-narrow/</link>
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		<title>The by-product of Success&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[is that you start getting emails from people asking for help in getting published. Every week now I&#8217;m starting to receive requests from people who&#8217;ve written a lovely book their best friend read and enjoyed and they want me to tell them which publishers to send it to and how to get it published. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rukhsanakhan.com/2012/02/the-by-product-of-success/</link>
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		<title>Confrontations cont&#8217;d&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As soon as I finished my treatise yesterday I felt like I hadn&#8217;t even addressed family confrontational issues and thought that should be the next post. I usually take a break for a few days between posts to give myself and my readers a rest, but hey, I&#8217;ll just put this up here while it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rukhsanakhan.com/2012/01/confrontations-contd/</link>
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		<title>Confrontations, Humiliations and Definitions&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how you can look back at your thirteen year old self and see all the mistakes you made. The old: &#8216;if I knew then what I know now&#8230;&#8217; kind of thing. And yet when a kid once asked me what would I change about my upbringing, I looked at him blankly, thought to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rukhsanakhan.com/2012/01/confrontations-humiliations-and-definitions/</link>
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		<title>Moments of Joy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny, ever since I got back from Hajj, my prayers have changed. Before, I would often go into autopilot when I&#8217;d be praying. It&#8217;s hard not to. We memorize the whole prayer, it&#8217;s formal and prescribed as such, there&#8217;s only a few spots for spontaneity. I used to wonder why. But over the years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One step forward, two steps back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or is it the other way around? Two steps forward and one step back? All I know is that it&#8217;s incredibly frustrating. I know I gave myself permission to write a lousy first draft, and that I did, but still, I was hoping there wouldn&#8217;t be quite so much work to do on the manuscript! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rukhsanakhan.com/2012/01/one-step-forward-two-steps-back/</link>
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		<title>Been thinking about Scott and Amundsen quite a bit lately</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don&#8217;t know, Robert Falcon Scott was the British antarctic explorer who botched his bid to be the first to reach the South Pole. Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, beat him to it by 33 days. Every once in a while, when I&#8217;m flicking channels, I come across some documentary that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rukhsanakhan.com/2012/01/been-thinking-about-scott-and-amundsen-quite-a-bit-lately/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s crazy to be so excited when it only means</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a LOT more work to do! And yet I can&#8217;t help it. This is actually a very good follow up to my post on Perseverance. Maybe there&#8217;s something to be said about January funk, because I was definitely feeling funky last week when I wrote it. (And talking to some friends they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rukhsanakhan.com/2012/01/its-crazy-to-be-so-excited-when-it-only-means/</link>
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		<title>Perseverance&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One foot in front of the other, keep on going, no matter what happens, keep on going. We&#8217;ve all heard of the value of perseverance. Goodness knows I&#8217;ve already blogged about the subject enough! But somehow I keep remembering the story of this guy whose name was Richard Kennedy. He is a storyteller and he wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rukhsanakhan.com/2012/01/perseverance/</link>
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		<title>Setting goals and cooking analogies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we were first married, every end of December my hubby would ask me to write a list of short and long term goals. Short term was for the next year, long term was for the next five years. I never did get good at writing them down but that doesn&#8217;t mean I didn&#8217;t set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rukhsanakhan.com/2011/12/setting-goals-and-cooking-analogies/</link>
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