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4 Tips to Finishing Creative Projects For People Who Find Finishing Hard

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  21. Wa iyyaki.. Oo,klo ga salah inget trs hasil browsing majas metonimia ya (jadi kaya ngulang pelajaran smp 😀 )Eh ya syukran buat tips pake minyak habatussauda buat ruam, dulu udah dikasih tau temen tp pas anak dah lair malah lupa..malah beli krim ruam. tadi abis baca postingan ummu jd langsung dipraktekin. Kebetulan kulit Yahya jg merah2 ni.Wa barakallahu fiiki

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  29. Darius, that is how I understood the options, but is there any explanation for why Howard would encourage a trade to a team (like the Lakers) but then not re-sign (after opting out first)? If his maximum financial return comes from opting out of his contract but re-signing with his current team (as of his opt out), why would he include any team on his “trade list” that he wasnt happy to re-sign with?

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  31. Certes, je n’ai jamais manifesté. Mais les gens ne marchent-ils pas tous dans la même direction, dans une manif ? Et en bas on voit les cheveux de la dame qui voulait quitter son mari hier. Peut-être que c’était simplement pour aller manifester, qu’elle partait !

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  34. Well where do you begin, when we talk about his career and the great service Joe did for his country and his hospitality for foreign leaders, we have to remember the inspiration he was to the family. When we visited him over the years it was always a pleasure, Joe always made sure everything was the best, and the time spent with him was just great. He was always there for the family when ever they needed anything. Joe lived his personal life in the same manner as his professional life, he was the best to all who came in contact with him.Joe will always be sadly missed.

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  37. When painting the exterior of a house, proper surface preparation is critical. Failure to properly prepare surfaces prevents the new paint from bonding and leads to peeling and other serious problems. Determine what type of paint you will be covering and whether additional prep will be required. Pay special attention when prepping doors and windows.

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  45. It is sad that people have to come across so comical or melodramatically to make their videos popular……..Why is it that intellectual videos are not watchable?……Can those activist who approach their subject matter with reasoning be able to make a video that could be featured on Trend spotting Tuesday?……This is a sad commentary about our society

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  55. I have a PS3 Blu-Ray Player. It works very well and upscales DVDs. It can be run by controller or BlueTooth remote ($25). PS3 is upgraded via the internet (wireless) so the unit has some protection against obsolescence. The PS3 is energy hungry due to the cell processor BUT it is reliable. You can hear the PS3 fan running when sound is muted.

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  63. विक्रमादित्यआजकाल बऱ्याच जुन्या गोष्टी टाकुन देण्याची पध्दत आहे. काय म्हणणार त्यावर? प्रत्येकाचा चॉइस आहे तो. चैत्र गौरीच्या हळदीकुंकाची आम्ही जास्त वाट पहायचो ,कैरीची डाळ अन पन्हं मिळतं म्हणून.

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  66. Toata discutia e putin trasa de par. Cine vrea sa-i vada mucegaiul Ioanei Tufaru la Acces din Rect e liber s-o faca intrucat interdictiile si civilizarea cu forta tin de o cu totul alta epoca iar noi ceilalti avem la dispozitie telecomanda. Companiile, astea sar cu banul unde e audienta.

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  69. Oh that is most kind of you, and much appreciated. Interesting seven things. So you’re a doctor eh? How you find time to write is beyond me. And to play the drums on top of that. Many kudos to you sir.

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  77. disse:An attention-grabbing discussion is worth comment. I believe that it’s best to write extra on this topic, it might not be a taboo subject however usually individuals are not sufficient to talk on such topics. To the next. Cheers

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  78. that Vz was richer in total natural energy resources, I was referring to the total package: petroleum and natural gas, plus proven reserves, coal, and electricity. And that’s what makes its current deficiencies in hydroelectric power management so pitiful.Venezuela is not so much a poor country as it is an exceedingly poorly managed country, and never more so than by your idols in office: the zenith of corruption and incompetence, hidden under layers of palaver for suckers like you.

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  80. The Back to School 10 is the worst I have seen her look. That needs to be included above! If ever she looked like she could play the role of Vivian in Pretty Woman, this was it.Of course, the one with the "junk" is jaw-dropping, also!

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  83. o amorim e o sergio sao os melhores jogadores desta equipa, tem tanta qualidade de passe e visao de jogo que smetem o ramon e o dias a jogar noutras posicoese o cardoso com eles vai para o bancosao os maiores e sem eles a equipa nao rende o mesmo

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  84. Ditto on your first two, but I'm going to choose some different gf foods… I love Amy's gf and dairy free balsamic vegetable pizza, Udi's pizza crusts, Aleia's Italian breadcrumbs, Udi's vanilla granola, and Whole Foods chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting. I had to include something with chocolate! Oh and I love wine, but that's naturally gluten free.

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  85. cosmotic, are you ten?I just ask because I was on the American Beauty part of IMDB and someone asked how old everyone was (AB fans). The commonest answers were 14 and 16. No one over 30. What does that tell you? Christ knows? Except that I am old.

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  87. nov12 Si multiplicas uno por uno los números, y luego los divides por cada uno de ellos, al final obtienes el mismo número, que corresponde a las letras de PITO DOBLE en un móvil.

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  97. szperaczy jest już tylu, że tÅ‚okcoraz wiÄ™kszy nawetrozumiem, że mam postrzegać redaktorów, opisujÄ…cych niezwykÅ‚ość procesów inwestycyjnych w okolicach miasta Łodzi, jako “twórców epitetów”…I don’t subscribe to this point of viewPozdrawiam

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  116. Jeg følger dig, fordi du virker rigtig sød og nede pÃ¥ jorden, og fordi dit tøjbudget er cirka samme størrelse som mit, tror jeg. Det gør, at jeg kan finde god inspiration hos dig. Og du er sÃ¥ skidesmuk (undskyld!), du skriver godt, og sÃ¥ laver du bare de fineste videoer, som jeg nyder at se.Held og lykke med alle dine eksaminer.Jeg glæder mig til at følge dig fremover 🙂

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  118. Really cool stuff down here. Going to the farmers market is a lot of fun. How could I lived my entire life without knowing these exist? Weird but cool at the same time, makes me feel like a kid again.

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  120. Hmm… script.. é… possível… bem pensado… =)mas e para controlar quem já entrou no site?? você conta ela todas as vezes que entrar??a enquete é valida para conhecer quantos usuarios utilizam determinados O.S., qual é o mais utilizado nós já sabemos, mas e a proporção?!Taí minha opnião.Abraço a todos.Usando Firefox 2.0.0.9 em Windows XP

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  124. sharktopuses are so cool i which i can see 1 in real life but no because i watched videos wen they eat people an …..or i can just go an see a harmless 1 so yea . bye ppl but my family also think their cool to so they probly want to see a h-a-r-m-l-e-s-s 1 cause they gonna get made if they dont an i dont want that to happen so ……oh 1 more thing im gonna have to show them the video i dont want to wait so that all i have to say tonight bye see u tommorow

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  125. Creo que estás un poco pez, ¿no?, ni siquiera sabes lo que es una línea de comandos???Antes de leer este post, deberías leer alguno de manejo básico de Mac OS y sobre shell, ¿no te pacece?, quizás otro de Software libre, dado que todo el SW libre suele venir en código fuente, es decir hay que “compilarlo para instalarlo”.

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  128. Produse deosebite, de un bun gust si de un rafinament aparte. Oricui i-ar placea sa aiba cel putin un produs Lucienne Home Interior in casa lui. Sunt realizate simplu, dar in acelasi timp te farmeca prin simplitate si eleganta.Well-loved.

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  130. Csata Pap, Háborús Atya, Hadi vagy Harci Tiszteletes. Hirtelen ezek jutottak eszembe. Egyébként valszeg csak mi gondolkozunk nagyon Magusos fejjel, hogy a paplovag az paladin… mert egyébként az csak D&D-ben elveszett valahol, s sima lovaggá lett . A paplovag -ban a lovag szó zavar, hiszen a war priest az, nálam legalábbis, egyáltalán nem lovag.De kétségtelen hogy van D&D-ben sok minden ami angolul is furán hangzik pl.: itt a Neverwinter Nine, Avagy az elÅ‘zÅ‘ cikkben Arcane Trickster.

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  134. Well written post my dear. My favorite reactions from friends are “I’m sorry, I don’t know much about MS”… or even better… “Well you don’t LOOK sick”!The biggest struggle is trying to remain normal in body that defies normality. One hour things can be fine and wham… they can change in a second. The loneliness and anger of not being understood because people can’t “see” our pain and difficulties. It’s incredibly frustrating. Thanks for posting and reaching out. I am looking forward to hearing your story.

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  137. The “hockey stick” graph is a completely discredited *temperature* graph. Nothing to do with CO2, which does show a steady increase. By the way, the CO2 increase is extremely good, as this boosts vegetation growth rates – will be very helpful as the world population keeps increasing and food resources need boosting.

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  139. Personally I could care less if people want to rebuild. I just don’t them using public Money to protect their houses from the environment. For example: millions wasted on replenishing lost sand on beaches and the government insuring them. If people want to build in weather sensitive areas then they should be on their own.

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  140. Mr. Soong is a very interesting person indeed.His news blog’s quality is second to none.Thanks for the article…I never knew his grandfather is even “crazier”.Spending all his money just on buying books in Europe? And all those books lost during Cultural Revolution…

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  144. Zune and iPod: Most people compare the Zune to the Touch, but after seeing how slim and surprisingly small and light it is, I consider it to be a rather unique hybrid that combines qualities of both the Touch and the Nano. It’s very colorful and lovely OLED screen is slightly smaller than the touch screen, but the player itself feels quite a bit smaller and lighter. It weighs about 2/3 as much, and is noticeably smaller in width and height, while being just a hair thicker.

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  147. If you read the books that caused the citizens to complain, then you appreciate that these were mainstream Americans disgusted at changing the public schools to debauchery mills. To mainstream America, that seemed like the civic chore to perform. Instead of correcting themselves, the reaction of the public school establishment was to use totalitarian methods to discredit the citizenry. That polarized the community and began one of the earliest of the Tea Party movements.Bravo Karl Priest for fairly presenting the stance of mainstream America.

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  149. I loved the scene of Watson and Holmes when they were in the jail/courtyard and Watson was bitching about setting fire to the rooms, etc and they were arguing about who the “we” in the sentence was. And the “Why wouldn’t I be invited? IT’S MY BROTHER’S HOUSE.” 🙂

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  155. it will be very interesting to see what, if any changes come about with the new premier. Allegedly the inner advocate group is stuffed with fans of & friends of the past premier, so as to “protect” his reputation, this will probaby act as a brake on any radical changes, but lets just wait ‘n see.

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  158. TSC, "Gotta love internet wingnuts.God-damned idiots."10:59 PM___________________________________I know you wish you were a conservative. Hey, we are inviting Field to cross over to save himself. We will even teach him ethics and morality. It will even make him an honest lawyer. Maybe you and Granny would like to also? That way you won't have to be jealous of us strong black conservatives anymore.

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  160. Voto per la goccia sul vetro: non avevo notato quella nella zona degli alberi, ma ora che leggo il commento di Barba (#72) e lo noto, è sicuramente una goccia sul vetro.Alternativamente potrebbe essere il riflesso di qualche oggetto nella stanza, anche se mi pare troppo poco luminoso, di giorno i riflessi sui vetri li fanno i lampadari o comunque le fonti di luce.

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  165. 1e2Já pode bater palmas?? (2)Paulaaaaaaa, vc falou TUDO!!Nao sou blogueira, mas sou seguidora complusiva de vários!Ai que canseira do mesmo conteudo sempre!Seu texto transparente, vem clarear mais ainda a percepção das seguidoras que nao conhecem o lado Z, mas conhecendo, vão saber selecionar melhor os quais merecem sua atenção e seu tempo dedicado.Um beijoo! Sucesso!

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  166. “we in turn have made it very clear to him that he’s aware of our interest in him,”…You realize that this is meaningless gibberish, yes? How do you make it clear to someone that HE is aware of your interest in him?

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  167. This is absolutely gold. I did not expect that I’d get so much out of reading your write up! You’ve just earned yourself a returning visitor VA:F [1.9.17_1161]please wait…

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  168. Y VENGA AHI! qué hacen esos holandeses o qué?! qué tal todo? alguna visita a España a la vista? sanfermin? yo espero escaparme a ver qué tal…por lo demás todo bien por aquí. empieza el sofocante calor estival madrileño….hasta la polla!bueno, cuidaros y que os vaya bien, gamberross!!besicos y abrazos.Daniolo

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  173. Fordi jeg har veskemaani, men ikke fÃ¥r lov av typen Ã¥ kjøpe flere vesker. NÃ¥ blir det kun vindushopping og laaaange ønskelister pÃ¥ meg- hvis ikke jeg skal begynne Ã¥ shoppe i smug, da? he he….Følger med pÃ¥ bloggen din hver dag, og mÃ¥ si du inspirerer. Alltid spennende hvordan du styler dine antrekk. hippiehippieshake! yeah – Nina

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  178. Awesome.. thanks so much for the review. I am new to GPS watches, so had a question.. is 5 hours on a charge about normal? Curious if the more expensive watches will go longer. What do folks do when they run longer than that time? Two watches?

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  186. Wauw, wat een geweldige blog heb jij, echt heel leuk ik heb gister alle pagina's bekeken. En wat een goed idee van dat "kledingrek" van een tak, ik heb nodig meer opslagruimte nodig dus ik denk dat ik dat ga proberen te maken! De jurk met de opengeknipte rug vind ik ook heel mooi

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  191. Gillar framför allt Hellbergs första mening! Såg att bilden på Hermanssons bok var av pocketupplagan och var genast tvungen att kolla ifall jag missat att den redan kommit ut. Det har den inte, men den kommer i februari, jippie!

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  194. you will look so pretty. oh my goodness i am hyperventilating..not only is this adorable and perfect to go around you butt but i am also over the top with anxiety about “what will i wear to the ball!!” you set the bar high my dear. i desperately need to find something suitable for a fancy farm girl dinner party!truly i have no idea what to wear but i do have a new soft foam mannequin body that i might be able to wrangle into something if i can figure out what to make…. yikes!i’m so excited

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  201. When one looks at the drop in home values, and the losses this drop has produced, you wonder how the banks could be worth a nickel. A Florida condo nearby is selling two 1200 sf units for around $50,000. These were bought 5 years ago for $289,000. Think of all the condo units, all the houses, all the losses.

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  205. Cynthia, Welcome to the OrthodoxBridge! Thank you for your feedback. You’re right, the issue of icons was not an easy issue. The iconoclasm controversy which spanned the 7th and 8th centuries was a rather complex affair.Robert

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  207. 25 julio, 2007AnónimoHola latas, sigue dando el mismo problema. La libreria si está en el sistema pero por lo que sea no la reconoce. Sólamente se queja cuando ejecuta la aplicación ANT para el resto de aplicaciones no hay problema. He probado a dejar la dll en el directorio de instalación y lo mismo.Gracias.  

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  215. Hi! I’ve been reading your site for some time now and finally got the courage to go ahead
    and give you a shout out from Humble Texas!
    Just wanted to say keep up the good job!

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  216. As usual, you hit the major sore points again and what a great reminder for us ‘Creative’ people. I’m so grateful to follow your newsletter and have just bought more calm cards to give to my Mother. Much appreciated your insights. Thank you Lisa.

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  217. Congratulationsssss! That must feel so good.

    My terrible truth is…I have only finished two first drafts of books. And revising is so hard! So I don’t know how I’m EVER gong to finish any story, or be published (besides one short story), EVER!

    But I’m going to just keep trying, and keep writing. And when I get to the end…I’ll hit this article back up, to squash my fear, ’cause this article is GREAT!

    Thank you.

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    • Thank you! It does feel good . Well, now it does:)

      Congratulations to you too!! Two full drafts.That’s a big deal. And you’ve done the hardest bit. So yes, just keep going and you’ll get there!

      I know what you mean about editing though. You get something that you like the gist of, but it’s filled with areas that aren’t quite right. It’s like doing a puzzle. A big, tricky puzzle. I don’t know if this will help, but something that Franco and I found helpful with our book was we realized that if we put in the time we’d be guided to what was the right thing to do. The more we saw this happen, the more we relaxed about it. We learned that we didn’t have to intellectually solve everything, often if we let a problem mull around and we took a break, we’d get a snippet of an idea, which if we followed turned into a solution.

      We also printed the book out and had it on our walls, so we could see bits of it getting stronger, gaps being filled in, and stuff being cleaned out. Our is illustrated and doesn’t have many words per page and maybe it wouldn’t work with purely prose, but it REALLY helped. We could see the whole thing, but also when we fixed a page, we’d just focus on that and feel good about that. Ha ha, two of us working all day and at the end of it, we had one more page done. But do that enough times, and wallah, it’s done!

      Thanks for your note! Keep going! Love to hear how it’s going:))

      Lisa

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  218. Hey congratulations on the new book ?. I love reading your posts as I’m real into learning more about our minds myself. I’ve always wanted to be a professional dancer or be in a dancing group on stage!!! But I’m too scared to get started or don’t have time…. scaredy cat lol.

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    • Oooh, that sounds like fun! For me, the fear is super real. I’m really not exaggerating with this article. But the more I do it, the more I see that what I’m most fearful of is usually the best stuff. Go dance!!

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  219. Thanks Lisa, I needed to see this today (I don’t always have time to read them sshhhh). I’m planning something really big in my life and I keep getting diverted to other really important things, like my dog needs a walk or my dishes need doing, you know, the IMPORTANT things. So, hearing that lots of people feel this way, especially you. I’m going to do it anyway. I Am. Thanks!
    Jessie

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  220. Very cool! Exciting! I am a scaredy finisher too. When I wrote my first book (first FINISHED) one it was so awesome! Now I have to finish the second one…it’s still difficult. 🙁 Thanks for sharing <3

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    • Thanks Licia. I really am so excited to share the book. It’s odd, but sweet. (I might tell Penguin they can use that “Odd but sweet.”). Thanks for taking the time to stop by and say hi:)

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  222. It is crazy!….I was pondering about this exact issue….about a painting and here I got this in my inbox!
    Thanks for sharing this. Makes a big difference in my world and I am sure in others
    Thanks again

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    • Awesome:) Happy to help! It can be a bit of a mind game can’t it. It always happens for me like this, I finish something and become convinced it’s terrible. How i see things changes instantly. The blinking switch! Happy painting!

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    • Thanks Candice! I can’t wait to share it too. Franco’s a creative powerhouse and it was awesome working with him. And do you know… only five minutes ago we were sent the typeset draft to look through to make final changes. Fun stuff.

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  224. Beautiful congratulations and thanks for sharing the wonderful amazing insightful truly creative lioness you are; definitely not a scaredy-cat 🙂 xx

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