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		<title>By: Hi. My Name is Darren Hardy and I am an Addict. &#124; Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hi. My Name is Darren Hardy and I am an Addict. &#124; Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] [Index: INTRO, Step 1, 1b, 2, 3, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 6b, 7, 8, 9, 9b, 10, 10b, 11, 12] [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 3) &#124; Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 3) &#124; Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 1) &#124; Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 1) &#124; Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 2) &#124; Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 2) &#124; Darren Hardy, Publisher of SUCCESS Magazine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Index: INTRO, Step 1, 1b, 2, 3, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 6b, 7, 8, 9, 9b, 10, 10b, 11, 12 [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Sanjay</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sanjay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lisa,

shoot me an email at sharmas21@yahoo.com. I&#039;ll share my personal experience on how I changed myself from workaholic to normal work life. May be that will change your husband&#039;s priorities.

Sanjay</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lisa,</p>
<p>shoot me an email at <a href="mailto:sharmas21@yahoo.com">sharmas21@yahoo.com</a>. I&#8217;ll share my personal experience on how I changed myself from workaholic to normal work life. May be that will change your husband&#8217;s priorities.</p>
<p>Sanjay</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
		<link>http://darrenhardy.success.com/2009/03/wa-2ndqcheck/#comment-7063</link>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the advice Darren.  When it comes to confronting my husband, I can only hope it doesn&#039;t fall on unreceptive ears, to which I believe that Sanjay hit the nail on the head with that one.  I think it all comes down to priority and personal goals.  I do feel encouraged to know that there are men out there who do hold relationships in high esteem, but put them off as &quot;less urgernt&quot;.. I know we are at a busy stage in our lives (we have 5 small children) and he runs 2 businesses, but my feelings set aside, I am worried about his well being, health and happiness.  He really is missing out on so much!  If anyone can speak from experience of being a workaholic, does the urge to be such an aggressive achiever change with different stages of life, or is it always a constant presence?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the advice Darren.  When it comes to confronting my husband, I can only hope it doesn&#8217;t fall on unreceptive ears, to which I believe that Sanjay hit the nail on the head with that one.  I think it all comes down to priority and personal goals.  I do feel encouraged to know that there are men out there who do hold relationships in high esteem, but put them off as &#8220;less urgernt&#8221;.. I know we are at a busy stage in our lives (we have 5 small children) and he runs 2 businesses, but my feelings set aside, I am worried about his well being, health and happiness.  He really is missing out on so much!  If anyone can speak from experience of being a workaholic, does the urge to be such an aggressive achiever change with different stages of life, or is it always a constant presence?</p>
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		<title>By: Sanjay</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sanjay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Darren,

My score is 12 out of 18, 66%. Much better than expected. One reason why I am doing better this year compared to last year is that my own success program started few weeks before your 12 step program and I am strictly following it. Interestingly some of your points were already in my program and some I added later.

One question: Do you know why the number of comments have significantly reduced since your first post of this 12 step program?
I think people are too busy in implementing the steps you have suggested (:- to post their comments.

To Lisa:
To be blunt, the resource to deal with your workaholic spouse is nowhere. The workaholic person will change himself or herself when the RIGHT time comes.  To work hard or work little is a personal choice based on person&#039;s priority and personal goals.

Sanjay</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Darren,</p>
<p>My score is 12 out of 18, 66%. Much better than expected. One reason why I am doing better this year compared to last year is that my own success program started few weeks before your 12 step program and I am strictly following it. Interestingly some of your points were already in my program and some I added later.</p>
<p>One question: Do you know why the number of comments have significantly reduced since your first post of this 12 step program?<br />
I think people are too busy in implementing the steps you have suggested (:- to post their comments.</p>
<p>To Lisa:<br />
To be blunt, the resource to deal with your workaholic spouse is nowhere. The workaholic person will change himself or herself when the RIGHT time comes.  To work hard or work little is a personal choice based on person&#8217;s priority and personal goals.</p>
<p>Sanjay</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do you have any resources for a spouse dealing with a workaholic husband?  This would be very useful to me, I am especially interested in something that could help with feelings of anger, frustration and extreme lonliness.. thanks!

&lt;strong&gt;[DARREN HARDY] Lisa, did my wife ask you to ask this question?? ;-)
Talk to him, he might not even know fully how you feel. We (men) tend to focus on what is urgent and important (which work always is) versus what is truly important (which relationships, family and most especially our significant other) to us. If he knows the extremity of your feelings and you alert him to them, you will then enter that important and urgent quadrant. Don&#039;t leave it up to him reading your mind, sit down with him and have a heart to heart, not an argument, rather an emotional conversation where you really reveal your sense of loneliness... that&#039;ll wake him up.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you have any resources for a spouse dealing with a workaholic husband?  This would be very useful to me, I am especially interested in something that could help with feelings of anger, frustration and extreme lonliness.. thanks!</p>
<p><strong>[DARREN HARDY] Lisa, did my wife ask you to ask this question?? <img src='http://darrenhardy.success.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Talk to him, he might not even know fully how you feel. We (men) tend to focus on what is urgent and important (which work always is) versus what is truly important (which relationships, family and most especially our significant other) to us. If he knows the extremity of your feelings and you alert him to them, you will then enter that important and urgent quadrant. Don&#8217;t leave it up to him reading your mind, sit down with him and have a heart to heart, not an argument, rather an emotional conversation where you really reveal your sense of loneliness&#8230; that&#8217;ll wake him up.</strong></p>
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		<title>By: Melodee Patterson</title>
		<link>http://darrenhardy.success.com/2009/03/wa-2ndqcheck/#comment-7060</link>
		<dc:creator>Melodee Patterson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wanted to thank you for the Workaholics Anonymous series, Darren. Unfortunately, I&#039;ve, uhhhh, been working so hard I haven&#039;t had time to actually read the posts yet. Give me a few weeks and I&#039;ll do this review. Thanks :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to thank you for the Workaholics Anonymous series, Darren. Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve, uhhhh, been working so hard I haven&#8217;t had time to actually read the posts yet. Give me a few weeks and I&#8217;ll do this review. Thanks <img src='http://darrenhardy.success.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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