The only way I will be successful is if I take seriously the advice to schedule.

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"I made it clear I would take no part in the vote, but relied on the previous advice that I could take part in the debate itself, " he said.

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Now that the story is in the public domain, the Chief of Defence Staff and I will take advice from the operational commanders about whether his deployment can continue.

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And what are the odds I'll take my own advice?

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But before I was officially ready to take the home-ownership plunge, I reached out to my family and friends for advice and spent some time doing online research.

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So, the advice I give business leaders in my seminars is to take some time right now to strategically define who you want to be, and what you want to be know as, and then to live that definition in every interaction.

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Occasionally, I'll even heed some of the financial advice therein, or maybe take enough interest in an article to locate it online and forward it to my friends.

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The judgment is quite a long and detailed one and we'll have to look at it and take legal advice, but I think it was worth that money, to actually put forward the argument to the court, that there is a security issue here and in what other walk of life, I mean police chiefs don't have their addresses, where they're living in the papers.

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But then, the advice I was giving about how that should be done and the need for the coalition to take very seriously its Geneva Convention obligations to keep order, to keep basic humanitarian services running, and to keep civil administration running, and get the UN in to create a new Iraqi political and interim authority, that was all being ignored.

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If I could offer only one piece of parenting advice for the new year, it would be to encourage parents to take the pressure off themselves to be good at everything at once.

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Starting the day on Wednesday, I tweeted jocularly that I didn't know whether to attend a UUP event marking the 15th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement or take the advice of the SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell by treating the day as a public holiday.

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