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	<title>Simply Complicated Facts of Life</title>
	<link>http://www.liztruong.com</link>
	<description>Why does everyone refer to my writing as whimsical?</description>
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		<title>2011: My Top 10 List of Events / Lessons Learned + Most Impactful People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 was by far one of the most life changing years I have had to date - and I am convinced will be so of my lifetime. All the lessons and knowledge I gained in 2010 allowed me to take that knowledge and put it into action to make it my way of being - to make it not just something that I know, but something that I live.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2012/01/27/2011bestlist/</link>
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		<title>Why I Quit My Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a big difference between what is seen as appropriate for your life, and what is right for your life. These are all the things that are right for my life - but I have been fearful to go out and get it because I didn't want to lose my supposed place in the world because a job is one of the only places that will give you a title, and financial security is the most talked about 'value' in this culture. But once I realized my life is not valued by what a job defines me as and how much money I make - I put my two weeks notice in without flinching. 

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		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2011/08/31/why-i-quit-my-job/</link>
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		<title>2010: My Top 10 List of Events / Lessons Learned + Top 10 Impactful People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 was one of the best years I've had yet. I experienced soaring highs, and torrential lows but with one thing remaining constant – everything in my life changed dramatically. All in all, however – I took a lot of lessons learned from 2009 and moved forward to implement several rules for the year that made it everything I never knew it could be]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2011/01/05/my-top-10-of-2010/</link>
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		<title>The Journey of Giving &#8211; Conclusion of My 29 Gifts in 29 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This project was incredible, not just to realize what life is like when your focus every day is making someone else's day, but that you realize some of the best gifts you can give are actually for yourself. Sometimes you need to give yourself time, to use your talents for you, and put your treasures to use - for you. Every gift you give to others, you inherently get back as well - in gratitude, in faith, in love. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2010/12/22/the-journey-of-giving-conclusion-of-my-29-gifts-in-29-days/</link>
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		<title>Day 2 of Giving: Honoring a Beautiful Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric and others are climbing in honor of Allison Thrasher, daughter of a fellow Firefighter who died a few years ago from complications due to Cystic Fibrosis. She was only 4 years old. In addition to that, Allison's mother (also named Allison) who is the fellow Firefighter's wife, passed away just 3 weeks ago losing her battle to breast cancer. My heart is swelling for this family, and the moment Eric told me the story I was burning through ways in how to fundraise money not just to fight back, but to honor this beautiful family.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2010/11/30/day-2-of-giving-honoring-a-beautiful-family/</link>
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		<title>Day 1 of Giving: 29 Gifts in 29 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided that I wanted to give something every day during the holidays - and that same day as I strolled through Barnes &#038; Nobles, I found a book called "29 Gifts in 29 Days" - perfect. I decided I'm going to do 29 gifts in 29 days through the holiday season in the way of time, talent and treasure.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2010/11/28/tis-the-season-for-giving-29-gifts-in-29-days/</link>
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		<title>Dear Baby Layla,</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Baby Layla,

Happy 1st birthday! I know you are too young to read this now, but when you open this on your 18th birthday there are a few things I wanted to tell you and I decided what better way to tell you than to write this letter on your 1st birthday when I'm reminiscing about the day you came into this world and delighted us all.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2010/10/07/dear-baby-layla/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating Independence &#8211; both for our country, and for my family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My parents came to America with no knowledge of this country - they didn't know anything about the culture, the language, the people - but in search of a better life, my parents came to the United States with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. Since coming to the US 35 years ago, my parents became citizens of the United States, bought a house and put 4 kids through college - thanks to the help of a wonderful and loving community and a family that chose us. They have worked hard, and loved harder - to have the lives they've always been dreaming of - all thanks to this great nation and the people in it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2010/07/04/celebrating-independence-both-for-our-country-and-for-my-family/</link>
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		<title>Pursuit of purpose, realizing destiny and everything in-between</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have started to form and fill in these ideas of my purpose and realizing what my destiny is for the life that I have - what I am truly passionate about, what I'm longing for and slowly but surely the foundation is being laid for a brand new path in my life for me to be a part of something I don't even know about - which is very scary and exciting at the same time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2010/06/29/pursuit-of-purpose-realizing-destiny-and-everything-in-between/</link>
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		<title>Kevin Wong Trash the Dress NYC &#8211; Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all started with a dress. Kevin and I sat down at the beginning of 2010 craving new experiences, direction and for me the pursuit of finding my place in the world and how to find fulfillment in my life. I decided the best way for me to do that, was to travel. 2010, as declared in a previous blog post, was going to be the year of travel. We thought of ways we could make it unique, and we came across one trip that was already aligned for both of us - the urban jungle of NYC - and decided, "hey we got a wedding dress we're not using - why don't we trash it?" Then we took it a step further and thought, "Trash it? Shoot, why don't we just burn the thing?"]]></description>
		<link>http://www.liztruong.com/2010/06/21/kevin-wong-trash-the-dress-nyc-part-ii/</link>
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