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	<title>Taking Down the Walls</title>
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		<title>Last Day of April</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, I have so much Great Ideas going on in my head right now.
D D blog to connect all the members!
Please make a note of that!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, I have so much Great Ideas going on in my head right now.</p>
<p>D D blog to connect all the members!</p>
<p>Please make a note of that!</p>
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		<title>Bridging the Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, in my last post, I wrote about &#8220;taking down the walls.&#8221;
Now I am writing about &#8220;bridging the gap.&#8221;
Well, for me, those 2 phrases mean the same thing.
Given is that:
There are 2 extremes, and I am a filler or a bridge.
Anyway, I have 2 dreams.
1. To be able to provide resources for those who &#8220;need&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, in my last post, I wrote about &#8220;taking down the walls.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now I am writing about &#8220;bridging the gap.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, for me, those 2 phrases mean the same thing.</p>
<p>Given is that:</p>
<p>There are 2 extremes, and I am a filler or a bridge.</p>
<p>Anyway, I have 2 dreams.</p>
<p>1. To be able to provide resources for those who &#8220;need&#8221; them.</p>
<p>2. To be able to destroy mental blocks as well as crossing the physical barriers.</p>
<p>Physical barriers&#8230;hmmm&#8230;that&#8217;s interesting.</p>
<p>This post (possible all the posts on this blog) means nothing to those who happen to stop by and read.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s okay, because I am writing for my own sake.</p>
<p>Getting tired&#8230;.</p>
<p>I should say that I am easily bored with an idea too soon.</p>
<p>If I learn to stick to one thing for a certain period of time, I know I am able to produce something good.</p>
<p>What is preventing me from sticking to an idea, a project, etc?</p>
<p>It might be because of linear thinking?</p>
<p>Or, is there something else?</p>
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		<title>Taking Down the Walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t decided on this blog&#8217;s title until today, but now I know it.
It&#8217;s &#8220;taking down the walls.&#8221;
This is what I am called for.
Looking at my personal history.
Looking at what I am doing right now.
Looking at what I am interested in.
All comes down to this simple and yet powerful slogan:
Taking down the walls&#8230;for what?
To eliminate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hadn&#8217;t decided on this blog&#8217;s title until today, but now I know it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;taking down the walls.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is what I am called for.</p>
<p>Looking at my personal history.</p>
<p>Looking at what I am doing right now.</p>
<p>Looking at what I am interested in.</p>
<p>All comes down to this simple and yet powerful slogan:</p>
<p>Taking down the walls&#8230;for what?</p>
<p>To eliminate inequality.</p>
<p>To make peace.</p>
<p>To avail resources to those who yearn.</p>
<p>That is my calling.</p>
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		<title>lifestyle match</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Value?
Not quite.
It&#8217;s lifestyle match!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Value?</p>
<p>Not quite.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s lifestyle match!</p>
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		<title>Home Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigate more
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Investigate more</p>
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		<title>House Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t it be interesting to do a housetour?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be interesting to do a housetour?</p>
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		<title>Lifestyle Design is the Key Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lifestyle Design Research:
 Entreprenuership Lifestyle
Life Optimizer 
Technotheory 
 Cute Interior 
Apartment Therapy 
RugMark 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lifestyle Design Research:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.guykawasaki.com/entreintrapreneurship/index.html"> Entreprenuership Lifestyle</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/12/24/2007-review-top-10-recommended-books-to-improve-your-life/">Life Optimizer </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.technotheory.com/2008/01/ambitions-in-lifestyle-design-for-2008/">Technotheory </a></p>
<p><a href="http://imedagoze.blogspot.com/"> Cute Interior </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/team">Apartment Therapy </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.rugmark.org/get_involved.php?cid=5">RugMark </a></p>
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		<title>Addendum to My First Coaching Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hey, you can do that!&#8221;
&#8220;You know you have the ability to do such a thing&#8230;&#8221;
I have always encouraged my friends like that.  Those remarks were not merely based on &#8220;white lies.&#8221;  I truly believed they could if they really wanted to.
Well, it is easy to encourage others, but hard to push myself.
In fact, I realized [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Hey, you can do that!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You know you have the ability to do such a thing&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>I have always encouraged my friends like that.  Those remarks were not merely based on &#8220;white lies.&#8221;  I truly believed they could if they really wanted to.</p>
<p>Well, it is easy to encourage others, but hard to push myself.</p>
<p>In fact, I realized that I don&#8217;t love myself as much as I do others.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s insane.</p>
<p>I have always used up all my resources for others, and for the loved ones, I knew I would sacrifice my life.</p>
<p>Then, why can&#8217;t I do that to myselfe?!  Why can&#8217;t I love myself that much so that I would risk anything?!  Where is this coming from?</p>
<p>By showing such love, do I secretly hope that someday someone might love me back?</p>
<p>It seems to be true.</p>
<p>I am not worthy of love, but others are.  This has been the hidden mantra.</p>
<p>I knew it somewhere, but I hadn&#8217;t dare admitted it.</p>
<p>I know what past experiences influenced in formning such low self-esteem.  I thought I had already recovered from it.  (I cannot share the stories here because this blog is too public, even though no one comes to visit it.)</p>
<p>However, recent work situation brought back that memory, and I feel stuck in the ditch.</p>
<p>Hello, depressed self, how are you?  Yeah right, I am depressed.</p>
<p>In the last half year, I could feel that I was not being myself.  No one believes that, but it is true.</p>
<p>You could say I am ill.</p>
<p>Besides the painful past experiences, I think my believe that I should devote myself to others&#8217; needs comes from my mother&#8217;s mantra: &#8220;You are strong, good, and healthy kid.&#8221;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to pretend that I am strong.</p>
<p>I am sick of being good.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to fake that I am healthier than I really am.  (I want to say it hurts when it does.)</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t take me wrong.  I am not complaing about my mother&#8217;s mantra.  I appreciate the way she raised me.  However, I have witnessed how she lived her life that way.  She never complained about being mistreated by my father (her husband).</p>
<p>And I carry that burden.</p>
<p>Well, to tell you the truth, it was the first time that I realized this.  So, I am grateful for having such a great coaching session.</p>
<p>Thank you, Coach Nishimura.</p>
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		<title>My First Coaching Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s February 23rd, 2008.
I had my first coaching session at groundwork in Osaka.
I met this coach on January 13th at a seminar on &#8220;choice.&#8221;
Because I was intrigued by the quality of her questions, I really wanted to talk to her, Coach Nishimura.
I began noticing a recurring theme during the 2-hour-session.
Well, my main purpose of being [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s February 23rd, 2008.</p>
<p>I had my first coaching session at groundwork in Osaka.</p>
<p>I met this coach on January 13th at a seminar on &#8220;choice.&#8221;</p>
<p>Because I was intrigued by the quality of her questions, I really wanted to talk to her, Coach Nishimura.</p>
<p>I began noticing a recurring theme during the 2-hour-session.</p>
<p>Well, my main purpose of being coached today was to find what I really would like to do in my life.  It seems endless to discuss this by myself, and I literally needed some help.</p>
<p>I noticed:</p>
<p>1. I am fricking afraid of making mistakes; therefore, taking the first step.</p>
<p>2. I am fricking afraid of stepping out of the regular, foreseeable lifestyle, even though I claim to be adventurous.  (Conflicting myself&#8230;.)</p>
<p>3. By being very conscious of how others percieve of me, I realized that I had (have) been hiding the fact that I may not love my self that much.  By being TOO kind to others and not at all kind to myself, I realized that I may not love my self that much.</p>
<p>4. It all comes down to my past experiences of not valuing what I am, who I am.</p>
<p>5. It then leads to what I wanto to do.  By helping become who I want to be and who I think I really am,  I could help thousands of others who might be feeling self-less, unconfident, and mis-perceived.</p>
<p>This is something I need to work on right away, and by digging this, I am 150% sure that I will get what I want.</p>
<p>Try to millionairize!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the key!</p>
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		<title>This morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had a great idea this morning, in a bathroom.
I have been searching for what I love to do, and I began seeing the glimps of what to become of such pondering.
It started with the thought of living in Lyon, France with my sweetheart.
If I were to be living in Lyon in 3 months, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just had a great idea this morning, in a bathroom.</p>
<p>I have been searching for what I love to do, and I began seeing the glimps of what to become of such pondering.</p>
<p>It started with the thought of living in Lyon, France with my sweetheart.</p>
<p>If I were to be living in Lyon in 3 months, how would I plan the coming 3 months?</p>
<p>If I were to be living in Lyon in 3 months, how would I plan the coming month?</p>
<p>The coming week?  Today?</p>
<p>Recently I read &#8220;sennnouryoku&#8221; by Mr. Tomabechi.   In the book, he talks about the concept of time.  In that, he explains that the past does not create the future, but vice versa.</p>
<p>At the first reading, I had no clue what he was talking about.</p>
<p>Then, I began pondering.</p>
<p>By planning to live in Lyon in 3 months, my mind started to imagine my day in Lyon.</p>
<p>I began thinking of how to accomplish that lifestyle.  What will I be doing in 2 months from now?  A month from now?  A week from now?  And ultimately today?</p>
<p>Then, an interesting idea hit upon me.</p>
<p>Well, if I can think like this about living in Lyon, I can apply this practice to virtually anything.</p>
<p>How does my life look like in 3 months from now?</p>
<p>Can I clearly picture it?</p>
<p>Then, what should I be doing now to get there?</p>
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