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		<title>Absence: The Number One Obstacle to Presence</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2012/01/10/absence-the-number-one-obstacle-to-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Original article copyrighted in 2008) I was at a team meeting recently where a group of us were talking about the leadership training program in an organization employing about 275 people. One person in the group asked the CEO, &#8220;What&#8217;s the opposite of leadership?&#8221; The CEO without any hesitation immediately said, &#8220;Absence!&#8221; How interesting! I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=883&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t remember what you&#8217;d planned to say?</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/06/25/cant-remember-what-youd-planned-to-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has this ever happened to you? You have an important presentation and you&#8217;ve done all your preparation. You don&#8217;t want to memorize the talk, but you also want to have a clear sense of what you are going to say and how you are going to say it. The morning of the talk you practice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=580&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Presence:  A stress management tool for anxious times</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/05/01/presence-a-stress-management-tool-for-anxious-times/</link>
		<comments>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/05/01/presence-a-stress-management-tool-for-anxious-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 09:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presence strategies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was driving to an appointment and running late.  My mind was racing, my breath was shallow, my heartbeat was off the charts, and whenever I thought about it I realized that my muscles were clenched, I was leaning right up next to the steering wheel, and every cell in my body was urging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=567&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The power of a smile</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/04/30/the-power-of-a-smile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have an inner critic who finds fault with everything you  do? I do, and she can be especially loud when I have been less than perfect. And, it seems most everyone else has the same issue. Yesterday I had two separate conversations with friends who each felt badly because of something they had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=556&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do fear of public speaking, trauma, and yoga have in common</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/02/23/trauma-yoga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a conversation with a colleague today about how much I incorporate yoga practices in the coaching I do with my public speaking clients and it reminded me of this article, which I wrote back in 2008.  I thought readers of this blog might be interested and so here it is: In 2008 I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=542&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from a lint filter, water bottle and electric toothbrush</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/02/17/lessons/</link>
		<comments>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/02/17/lessons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, as much as I’m trying to slow down and simplify my life, I always seem to be in a hurry. Every time I do my laundry I’m reminded that hurrying through my tasks isn’t the most efficient way to get things done.  I always seem to want to quickly empty the lint filter in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=526&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Openings&#8230; The biggest stumbling block</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/12/16/openings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presence strategies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The first few moments of a presentation always terrify me.” “I know my subject really well and know what I want to say, I just don’t know how to get started.” “If the first few minutes go well, then I relax for the rest of the talk.” Statements like these are almost universal. It seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=399&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking with both feet on the ground</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/11/07/swbfotg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I gave a workshop on this topic with the intention of, for the first time, beginning to clarify what I mean by the phrase &#8220;embodied presence&#8221;.  Here is some of the thinking that went into the workshop. Where we put our attention, that&#8217;s where energy goes.  This is probably the core principle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=396&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-consciousness vs. Presence</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/10/30/self-consciousness-vs-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to David&#8217;s comment to my last post about fear arising not at the beginning of a talk but rather 3 or 4 minutes into the talk, I thought I&#8217;d share the first article in a 26 week article series I&#8217;ve written entitled The ABCs of Presence in Speaking, Leading, and Life!  This first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=402&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of the first few minutes in public speaking</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/09/29/first-few-minutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I swim for exercise. I swim in pools that are kept relatively cool so that lap swimmers don’t overheat when they work up a “sweat”. This means that it’s always hard to get into the pool at the beginning of my swim. Once I’ve been in the water for even one lap, the chill wears [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&amp;blog=6257156&amp;post=365&amp;subd=speakingpresence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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