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	<description>The 8-Traits that Lead to Great Success</description>
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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.
Helen’s [...]]]></description>
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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.

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		<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 was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/i-passed-the-audit/2009/10/25/</link>
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		<title>Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today my wife was all stressed out.
She was panicking to get to relaxation class.


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		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/stress/2009/10/22/</link>
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		<title>Following Your Passions Pays Off</title>
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I just found another example of how following your passions pays off, and it was right under my nose. Thom Rockliff and Elliot Ng, two of my colleagues at The St. John Group, just won a big international award – the Summit Marketing Effectiveness award – and it happened just because they followed their passion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/following-your-passions-pays-off/2009/10/10/</link>
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		<title>Push Through Fears to Reach the Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I wrote, “What’s the difference between a challenge and a goal? Challenges are goals with fear and adrenaline added. A challenge has to scare you a little.” Jackie Tunbridge-Glacer replied, &#8220;Great definition, being the President of my Rotary club was a big challenge, with lots of adrenaline. Richard your talk and book are what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/push-through-fears-to-reach-the-dream/2009/08/14/</link>
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		<title>Persisting Through Disabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a video of Nick Vujicic, an amazing man who happily lives life without arms or legs. While watching it, I had an instant flashback to yesterday when my wife and I were out for a walk. We saw a man coming towards us and he had a metal, high-tech arm that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/persisting-through-disabilities/2009/07/20/</link>
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		<title>Does Adversity Stop Success?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading my last blog about Michael Jackson, Katie Jacobs wrote, “While I completely agree that not following the 8 principles greatly contributed to Michael&#8217;s professional downfall, I think that there were a few more issues that factored in. Having a crazy father certainly doesn&#8217;t help. A dysfunctional childhood, confused sexuality, impaired body image, possibly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/does-adversity-stop-success/2009/07/06/</link>
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		<title>Michael Jackson – When the King of Pop Reached the Top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I gave a talk at the GameHorizon conference in Newcastle, England, and at one point talked about the movie stars and rock stars who achieve incredible success – then they stop doing everything that made them successful, and the success also stops. As an example, I mentioned Michael Jackson. Ironically, two days later [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richardstjohn.com/blog/michael-jackson-%e2%80%93-when-the-king-of-pop-reached-the-top/2009/07/03/</link>
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