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	<description>By Meryl Runion and SpeakStrong, Inc.</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>PowerPhrase ~ A distraught man entered a church&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/08/03/powerphrase-a-distraught-man-entered-a-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended services at All Souls Unitarian Church this week. If you follow the news, you know that their Knoxville church suffered a shooting that killed two church members and injured several others.
I was deeply moved by the memorial, yet my sorrow was laced with joy that this group was able to talk about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reader comment ~ Nurses who don&#8217;t speak up</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/08/03/reader-comment-nurses-who-dont-speak-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/08/03/reader-comment-nurses-who-dont-speak-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am e-mailing to let you know that I am using your article and test on Communication Styles for my staff development education. Preceptors feel if they communicate openly and honestly, that they are being &#8220;mean.&#8221; I keep saying if they aren&#8217;t communicating openly and honestly then they are being mean&#8230;because they are doing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reader story ~ The &#8220;Merrill Reunion&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/08/02/reader-story-the-merrill-reunion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/08/02/reader-story-the-merrill-reunion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was in Pine Bluff, AR and I drive by the Conference Center and, on the marquee, it says, &#8220;Merrill Runion 7-9 PM&#8221; So, I think to myself, I would really like to meet her. She is probably giving some sort of seminar here tonight - I&#8217;ll drop in and introduce myself.
About 20 minutes into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week in the World ~ Expectation management</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/31/this-week-in-the-world-expectation-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/31/this-week-in-the-world-expectation-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which would you prefer &#8230;someone who promises ten things and delivers five, or someone who promises one and delivers four?
Did it occur to you that the previous question is a false choice? How about the option of someone who promises five and delivers five?
Members of the American Society for Quality tell me their motto is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poison Phrase ~ Industry Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/31/poison-phrase-industry-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/31/poison-phrase-industry-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for my annual reprinting of PowerPhrases. I print and pay for 20,000 - 25,000 copies at a time, so you can imagine what that bill looks like. Even so I don&#8217;t like paying for things I don&#8217;t need. That&#8217;s why I asked that the proofs not be ovenighted, since sometimes I have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Meryl ~ Who asked you?</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/31/ask-meryl-who-asked-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/31/ask-meryl-who-asked-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[




Meryl,
Recently one of our employees returned back to work after several months off. I had forgotten how forward she was. My question concerns how to respond to her authoritative statements about how I (or others) are or rather should be. A simple example being her saying &#8220;why did you paint your front door that stupid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week in the World ~ Blowing your cover</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/28/this-week-in-the-world-blowing-your-cover/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/28/this-week-in-the-world-blowing-your-cover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend told me in her single days, when she got to know new men, she waited for them to decide she was crazy. One man not only didn’t decide she was crazy – he adored who she was. They’ve been married for five years now.
Many of us relate to her experience. We’re afraid if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PowerPhrase ~ What is it like to die?</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/28/powerphrase-what-is-it-like-to-die/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/28/powerphrase-what-is-it-like-to-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of a flurry of business emails, an associate and friend sent me an email that simply read,

How are you today?

My friend’s invitation delighted me. I responded with an honest general assessment of my well-being.
This woman once asked a dying friend what she was learning in her passing that she could teach. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poison Phrase of the Week ~ They&#8217;re all the same</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/28/poison-phrase-of-the-week-theyre-all-the-same/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/28/poison-phrase-of-the-week-theyre-all-the-same/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merylrunion</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s tough to distinguish quality in our polluted marketplace of over-promising and under-delivering. We&#8217;ve grown cynical, and developed the tendency to assume everyone hypes equally, there is no point trying to make informed choices, it doesn&#8217;t matter whom you elect, whom you buy from or whom you listen to. Someone said this of spiritual, personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Meryl ~ How game are you?</title>
		<link>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/28/ask-meryl-how-game-are-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2008/07/28/ask-meryl-how-game-are-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks: Meryl,
You are an incredibly brave person for putting your written words on the line on a regular basis. For that I commend you. I&#8217;m sure you receive a lot of criticism and the fact that you stick with it is incredible. It is for this reason that I had to ask myself [...]]]></description>
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