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	<description>The 8-Traits that Lead to Great Success</description>
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		<title>Running Rio and into The 7-Continents Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my wife Baiba and I ran the Rio de Janeiro marathon (26 miles/42 kilometers) and we are now officially in the 7-Continents Marathon Club. Interestingly, fewer people (338) have run marathons on all seven continents than have gone into space (499), or reached the top of Mt. Everest (2,249). I’m not sure which of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/running-rio-and-into-the-7-continents-club/2010/07/19/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Nice to be Successful, and to be Successful be Nice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To be successful, be “nice.” At least, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve found while interviewing many of the world&#8217;s most successful people. In my book, there are many examples of how the big names, like Quincy Jones and Martha Stewart, were very nice to me. Yes, even Martha. It’s almost like; the bigger the name, the nicer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/to-be-successful-be-nice/2010/07/05/</link>
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		<title>Life is an ongoing experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is more fun if we look at it as an ongoing experiment. We try a lot of stuff. We succeed sometimes. We fail sometimes. One thing leads to another and we just keep learning and moving forward. Then, just when we get it right, we die. But doing the experiment has been a hell of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/life-is-an-ongoing-experiment/2010/06/10/</link>
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		<title>If you don’t want life to be boring&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don’t want life to be boring, it helps to have too much to do. I want my gravestone to read: “He never finished his ‘To Do’ list!” According to my wife, my gravestone should read: &#8220;My research says I&#8217;m dead.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/if-you-don%e2%80%99t-want-life-to-be-boring/2010/06/07/</link>
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		<title>Be UN-privileged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, some people are under-privileged while others are over-privileged. But if you want to succeed, it&#8217;s better to be UN-privileged. In other words, don&#8217;t rely on privilege for your success. If you were born into an over-privileged life, don&#8217;t think, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got it made.&#8221; There are too many examples of people who led a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/be-un-privileged/2010/05/24/</link>
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		<title>The First Class Seat From Hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be giving a talk in England next week and flew over yesterday. The back of the plane arrives at the same time as the front, so I usually book economy class (being frugal is one thing that makes millionaires). However, to my surprise, the airline gave me a free upgrade to first class. Then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/the-first-class-flight-from-hell/2010/03/14/</link>
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		<title>Congratulations Helen Upperton!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was glued to the Olympic women’s bobsleigh races as Upperton and Brown won silver, and Humphries and Moyse won gold. The two teams made history as the first Canadian women to win Olympic medals in women’s bobsleigh. I cheered for them all as they stood on the podium, and especially Helen Upperton. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/congratulations-helen-upperton/2010/02/25/</link>
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		<title>Updated &#8211; 8 To Be Great Wallpaper Series &#8211; Free Downloads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to thank Tony Donnes for an idea. He sent me an email saying he&#8217;s a lecturer at a community college in Hawaii and he shows my TED talk video to his students. He also said, &#8220;I took the last slide of your TED lecture, turned it into a JPG image, and made it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/8-to-be-great-wallpaper-series/2010/01/15/</link>
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		<title>If Pigs Could Fly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile a bad pun pops into my head. Here&#8217;s the latest: There’s an old saying: &#8220;If pigs could fly.&#8221; Well, it has finally happened. A swine flu.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/if-pigs-could-fly/2009/10/28/</link>
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		<title>I Passed the Audit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’d like to thank the Institute of Internal Auditors for their warm reception last week when I gave the opening keynote speech at their All-Star Conference “The Best of the Best,” at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Last year, I spoke at one of their IIA regional conferences in Atlanta, and even though the audience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/i-passed-the-audit/2009/10/25/</link>
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