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	<description>Perfection has its price. And it&#039;s too high.</description>
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		<title>By: Michelle Russell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michelle Russell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi, and thanks for your interest! This month I will be sending out my first newsletter ever,,,so your timing is perfect. :)

I don&#039;t have the link up yet, but check back within the next week or two, and there will be a subscription box on my main page where you can enter your email address. Coming very soon, I promise!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi, and thanks for your interest! This month I will be sending out my first newsletter ever,,,so your timing is perfect. <img src='http://www.practicemakesimperfect.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have the link up yet, but check back within the next week or two, and there will be a subscription box on my main page where you can enter your email address. Coming very soon, I promise!<br />
<span class="cluv">Michelle Russell recently posted..<a class="ec02857e54 1414" href="http://www.practicemakesimperfect.com/discernment/holodecks-and-string-quartets">Holodecks and String Quartets</a><span class="heart_tip_box"><img class="heart_tip u 1414" alt="My Profile" style="border:0" width="16" height="14" src="http://www.practicemakesimperfect.com/wp-content/plugins/commentluv/images/littleheartplus.gif"/></span></span></p>
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		<title>By: bet365 malaysia</title>
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		<dc:creator>bet365 malaysia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I will immediately clutch your rss feed as I can&#039;t in finding your email subscription link or newsletter service. Do you have any? Please let me understand in order that I may just subscribe. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will immediately clutch your rss feed as I can&#8217;t in finding your email subscription link or newsletter service. Do you have any? Please let me understand in order that I may just subscribe. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Michelle Russell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michelle Russell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Jeni - Thank you! Or you&#039;re welcome? Both sort of apply. :o)

Anyway, welcome--glad to have you here! And thanks so much for adding me to YOUR blogroll! I love the name &quot;Ambition to Meaning,&quot; by the way. Not to mention your &quot;want ad&#039; post from today--where on earth did you find that? Makes me **almost** want to answer, just to see what would happen!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Jeni &#8211; Thank you! Or you&#8217;re welcome? Both sort of apply. <img src='http://www.practicemakesimperfect.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> )</p>
<p>Anyway, welcome&#8211;glad to have you here! And thanks so much for adding me to YOUR blogroll! I love the name &#8220;Ambition to Meaning,&#8221; by the way. Not to mention your &#8220;want ad&#8217; post from today&#8211;where on earth did you find that? Makes me **almost** want to answer, just to see what would happen!</p>
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		<title>By: Jeni</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeni</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michelle, you blog totally resonates with me! I am a recovering control freak and perfectionist as well.  Thanks for the great post!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michelle, you blog totally resonates with me! I am a recovering control freak and perfectionist as well.  Thanks for the great post!</p>
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		<title>By: Michelle Russell</title>
		<link>http://www.practicemakesimperfect.com/writing/write-something-horrible/comment-page-1#comment-183</link>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Russell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Square Peg Guy - Oh my gosh, Jenny Ryan is HYSTERICAL!!! She&#039;s one of my favorite bloggers to read. Even her short posts crack me up no end.

Thanks very much for clicking through and finding me here!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Square Peg Guy &#8211; Oh my gosh, Jenny Ryan is HYSTERICAL!!! She&#8217;s one of my favorite bloggers to read. Even her short posts crack me up no end.</p>
<p>Thanks very much for clicking through and finding me here!</p>
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		<title>By: Square Peg Guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Square Peg Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, I&#039;ve never visited Copyblogger or even heard of it.  I clicked over here from www.JennyRyan.com on which you commented.  She&#039;s a riot, isn&#039;t she?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, I&#8217;ve never visited Copyblogger or even heard of it.  I clicked over here from <a href="http://www.JennyRyan.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.JennyRyan.com</a> on which you commented.  She&#8217;s a riot, isn&#8217;t she?</p>
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		<title>By: Michelle Russell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michelle Russell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Square Peg Guy  - (chuckling) Yes, the reason I started this blog was to allow it to be a practice for *myself* in learning to get over my own perfectionism, and a sharing of that process with other people who are interested. And who might be going through some of the same things. And who might (I&#039;m hoping, hoping!) want to be part of an ongoing conversation about it.

So if you think I&#039;m modeling imperfection here, I&#039;m quite flattered. :o)

The guest post on Copyblogger was a lucky break for me because my new blog suddenly got noticed by a wider audience. And *this* post was an absolutely spur-of-the-moment decision that I made on a whim, just to see who might respond. I like the fact that, two weeks later, people like you are still stopping by to comment!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Square Peg Guy  &#8211; (chuckling) Yes, the reason I started this blog was to allow it to be a practice for *myself* in learning to get over my own perfectionism, and a sharing of that process with other people who are interested. And who might be going through some of the same things. And who might (I&#8217;m hoping, hoping!) want to be part of an ongoing conversation about it.</p>
<p>So if you think I&#8217;m modeling imperfection here, I&#8217;m quite flattered. <img src='http://www.practicemakesimperfect.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' /> )</p>
<p>The guest post on Copyblogger was a lucky break for me because my new blog suddenly got noticed by a wider audience. And *this* post was an absolutely spur-of-the-moment decision that I made on a whim, just to see who might respond. I like the fact that, two weeks later, people like you are still stopping by to comment!</p>
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		<title>By: Square Peg Guy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Square Peg Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I kept wondering why anyone would advocate writing something horrible.  And then I looked closely at your URL and got the idea that getting permission to do something horrible is wonderfully liberating.  Barbara Sher devoted a chapter to this concept in one of her books.  And I think I wrote a post about that.  Or maybe I dreamed that I did, because I cannot find it.  The gist of it was that modeling imperfection is really hard.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I kept wondering why anyone would advocate writing something horrible.  And then I looked closely at your URL and got the idea that getting permission to do something horrible is wonderfully liberating.  Barbara Sher devoted a chapter to this concept in one of her books.  And I think I wrote a post about that.  Or maybe I dreamed that I did, because I cannot find it.  The gist of it was that modeling imperfection is really hard.</p>
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		<title>By: Michelle Russell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michelle Russell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Joe Ray - Yes, it surprises a lot of people (it did me!) to learn that one result of perfectionism is often procrastination. Those two &quot;patients in the waiting room&quot; seem diametrically opposed--why would someone who likes everything done right leave messes or piles of unfinished stuff?

But when you think about it, it really does make sense--if you have this terrible need for everything to be perfect, and you&#039;re worried or scared that it won&#039;t be, of course you&#039;ll procrastinate because if you actually do it, you might &quot;fail.&quot;

Then you feel guilty about all your procrastination--what a vicious cycle it becomes!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Joe Ray &#8211; Yes, it surprises a lot of people (it did me!) to learn that one result of perfectionism is often procrastination. Those two &#8220;patients in the waiting room&#8221; seem diametrically opposed&#8211;why would someone who likes everything done right leave messes or piles of unfinished stuff?</p>
<p>But when you think about it, it really does make sense&#8211;if you have this terrible need for everything to be perfect, and you&#8217;re worried or scared that it won&#8217;t be, of course you&#8217;ll procrastinate because if you actually do it, you might &#8220;fail.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then you feel guilty about all your procrastination&#8211;what a vicious cycle it becomes!</p>
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		<title>By: Joe Ray</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joe Ray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post! I just read it on Copy Blogger. Perfection is joined at the hip with procrastination, which are those 2 people you just met in the waiting room. The waiting room where people are waiting for their spinal implants so that they can hopefully go back into the world and actually make decisions and/or actually do something. Internalizing and not doing are the same as holding back great advice we can give someone in need.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post! I just read it on Copy Blogger. Perfection is joined at the hip with procrastination, which are those 2 people you just met in the waiting room. The waiting room where people are waiting for their spinal implants so that they can hopefully go back into the world and actually make decisions and/or actually do something. Internalizing and not doing are the same as holding back great advice we can give someone in need.</p>
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