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		<title>What you don't know about marriage: TED Talk by Jenna McCarthy</title>

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		<pubDate>2012-02-17</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Edmundson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[ This is a great talk by Jenna on the subject of marriage. I have to say, I really enjoyed it and it will make you laugh a little too.










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		<title>Escape the Diet Trap: An Interview with Dr John Briffa</title>

		<link>http://www.mattedmundson.com/view.article.php?id=356</link>
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		<pubDate>2012-02-14</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Edmundson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[ In this interview I chat with Dr John Briffa, the UK's leading nutritional doctor and author of several bestselling books such as Waist Disposal and the newly released Escape the Diet Trap which is all about how to lose weight without calorie counting working out all day or going really hungry.

Dr John Briffa - How to Escape the Diet Trap Interview from Matt Edmundson on Vimeo.
Here&acirc;€™s a summary of what we talked about.
Why diets can&acirc;€™t work and set you up for failureHow eating less calories and exercising more is not the key for long term weight loss. (5min 30sec)It&acirc;€™s more important to ask: what causes fat to get into my fat cells and stay there? (9min 30sec)
How to Lose weight effectivelyThe amazing primal diet melts fat (16min 30secs)How to make you diet sustainableThe best snack to eat to keep away hunger and lose fat.Simple ways to eat treats without falling off the rails (28min)
What food is best for k ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>6 things that you can do today that will change your tomorrow</title>

		<link>http://www.mattedmundson.com/view.article.php?id=353</link>
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		<pubDate>2012-02-02</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Edmundson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
Get your inbox down to zero
This is one of those great tips I learned from the GTD guys, and I always feel much better about life when I manage to do it. The idea is to get all of the email out of your inbox, so you have zero emails in there. That's right, zero! You take each email and do something with it (try the Do, Defer (add to your task list or calendar), Delegate (add to your delegated task list), Delete idea). I've just started using Flow to manage tasks and, at first glance, seems pretty good. Wunderlist is a good free alternative to Flow without some of the features of Flow. When you have done that either file that email in another folder or delete it. Your inbox will be zero and you will have organised your life. If you want to be totally hard-core, do the same with you sent items.
Turn your email off
One of the best things you can do is have it so you don&acirc;€™t have email automatically sent (or &acirc;€œpushed&acirc ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Living without (work) email on my iPhone - what a revelation!</title>

		<link>http://www.mattedmundson.com/view.article.php?id=352</link>
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		<pubDate>2012-02-02</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Edmundson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I have had an iPhone since the iPhone 3 came out and integrated with Exchange - I have never looked back since. In fact, I have even got my wife an iPhone so that we can share calendars (a wonderful feature of Exchange) and it's been brilliant. 

Recently, my new iPhone (the 4S) arrived all shiny and new. I restored the phone using iCloud - all very clever and very easy. Everything was restored, including the 7 email accounts that I had. That's right, 7! Work had really taken over my iPhone with the emails from all the different companies that I am involved with as well as personal email.

Turn Off Push
Having 7 email accounts on the phone is a nightmare to keep up with: your phone is constantly buzzing as yet another email lands in the inbox. I was constantly checking it, even when I was with the family. Outlook was the same - I was looking at the screen every few seconds at the next email that had arrived. Nothing was getting don ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The happy secret to better work</title>

		<link>http://www.mattedmundson.com/view.article.php?id=351</link>
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		<pubDate>2012-02-02</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Edmundson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[ I've been studying happiness a lot recently (thanks to the recommendation of Tony Hsieh of Zappos). I figure that understanding happiness is one of the keys to developing and maintaining our company culture, keeping work and enjoyable place to be and devote time to as well as happy customers. 

When you study happiness, there are several names that you come across who are scientists and psychologists that have spent most of their working life studying it - one such name is Shawn Achor, the CEO of Good Think and author of The Happiness Advantage. Admittedly, I have his book on my kindle but I haven't started to read it yet (review coming that's for sure). I have, however, just finished watching his TED Talk (and it is well worth the 13 minutes you need to watch it).

In that talk, Achor tell us that:
&acirc;€œThere are ways to train your brain to become more positive. In just a two minute span of time, done for 21 days in a row, we  ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Huddle</title>

		<link>http://www.mattedmundson.com/view.article.php?id=350</link>
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		<pubDate>2012-02-02</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Edmundson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[ For the last few years, I have been engaging in the Huddle: a quick 20 minute meeting with the team where we review, discuss and plan. We do this every coupe of weeks. It is a practice that started when I read the book The Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish. It is a great way to keep staff informed of what is happening in the company (so they feel a lot more involved) and great way to engage staff in how to move the company forward. All-in-all, I am a big fan of the huddle.

Here's our typical agenda for it:

Update from Everyone. 
This is quick catch up from each person on how they are doing. They are invited to share 2 pieces of good news (which keeps it a lot more positive).
&acirc;€œIf someone has gone a couple weeks without specific good news, the leader should intervene privately to see if everything is okay.&acirc;€
Review. 
This is where we look at the numbers: specifically one or two KPIs that are important to the com ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title> The Company Priorities</title>

		<link>http://www.mattedmundson.com/view.article.php?id=349</link>
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		<pubDate>2012-02-02</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Edmundson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[ In the Last Post- we looked at The Huddle, a quick 20 minute company wide meeting that works wonders in keeping everyone up-to-date and involved with the company. In this Huddle, you review the numbers of one or two KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) that are specific to your company's well being as well as the numbers from the priorities that you have set.

The Priorities that we set are for the period of 3 months, and we have no more than 5 (as suggested in the book). We also rank them, so the first priority is always the key priority for us that quarter.

Each Priority is broken down into a series of projects, and each project is assigned to a member of staff - that project then becomes their responsibility. Each week, they update their progress of that priority on to a spreadsheet (this is done in the simple form of percentage complete). The spreadsheet then calculates the total achievement of that priority.

So, at each meeti ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New Blog being developed</title>

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		<pubDate>2012-01-06</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Edmundson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[ Hi Guys

Sorry for the emptiness of the blog at the moment. It is being redeveloped as we speak!

I have decided to start again with the blog and articles, so please bear with me as I am busy writing away! 

Pretty soon I'll have a link to all the previous posts.

In the meantime, feel free to get in touch or connect on Twitter (@mattedmundson). ]]></content:encoded>
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