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	<description>A Blog by The Champion's Coach, Jon L. Iveson Ph.D</description>
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		<title>The Path to Breakthrough Results: Develop a Compelling Vision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven&#8217;t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.”
&#8211; Stephen R. Covey
The starting point for all breakthroughs is a compelling vision for the future!  Your potential can NOT be reached if you simple push hard from where you are.  There are too many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningtobeachampion.com/blog/?p=476</link>
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		<title>For Great Ventures™: Attracting, Getting and Keeping the Right People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great venture can not be built on the shoulders of just one highly talented and motivated entrepreneur.  Not matter what the business, it will not scale in any fashion without a team of the right people leading it forward.
“Individually, we are one drop.  Together, we are an ocean.”
&#8211; Ryunosuke Satoro
It is astounding to me to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningtobeachampion.com/blog/?p=470</link>
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		<title>The Path to Breakthrough Results &#8211; Ignorance is Your Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ignorance is your opportunity!  It may sound strange, but it is true. 
Before clarifying what this statement means, let’s look at two viewpoints on the word ignorance and then provide context for the above statement. 
One viewpoint is where ignorance is viewed as a state of mind that comes from lack of knowledge or desire to explore [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningtobeachampion.com/blog/?p=467</link>
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		<title>For Great Ventures™: Stress Testing Growth and Scaling Your Early Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Envisioning the step of stress testing growth when you are at the very beginning of your journey can seem like a huge and immensely challenging step outside your comfort zone.  However, by the time you arrive at this step, you should have mastered the habit of stepping outside your comfort zone.  And, if you have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningtobeachampion.com/blog/?p=464</link>
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		<title>For Great Ventures™: Cementing Your Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know by looking at our surrounding housing structures that a foundation is important for any lasting functionality during changing conditions.  The foundation is the lowest supporting layer of any physical structure.  It is also a supporting layer for any organizational structure.  It could be argued that the foundation of an organizational structure is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningtobeachampion.com/blog/?p=461</link>
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		<title>For Great Ventures™: Getting Your 1st Chunk of Scalable Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Verne Harnish, The Growth Guy, mentioned the importance of the proper mindset for growing your business in his July 16, 2010 blog post.  He references John Warrillow’s book, Built to Sell, which provides 8 Steps for Creating a Sellable Firm.  While I haven’t seen the list yet, I imagine the mindset that this list helps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningtobeachampion.com/blog/?p=458</link>
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		<title>For Great Ventures™: Master Planning for Ultimate Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I’d still land on my feet.”
&#8211; Eli Broad
Great ventures not only have basic plans to start them on a great course for their journey but they also develop master plans for ultimate success early on in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningtobeachampion.com/blog/?p=452</link>
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		<title>For Great Ventures™: Your Basic Plans to Start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
&#8211; Dwight D. Eisenhower
In all things, planning serves a purpose.  The purpose in NOT to develop perfect plans!  It is to channel and challenge your advance worrying.  It is to work through your thoughts and ideas on what is possible.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningtobeachampion.com/blog/?p=449</link>
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		<title>For Great Ventures™: Checking Viability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To create a potential great venture, you must nail passion, vision, opportunity, and uncommon offering.  It sets the ceiling on your potential and greatness is certainly possible with these components in place.  However, just because you have nailed them does not mean that greatness is inevitable.  You must check the viability of your venture regardless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.learningtobeachampion.com/blog/?p=445</link>
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		<title>For Great Ventures™: Start with Passion, Vision, Opportunity, and Uncommon Offering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The starting point, or turning point, for all great ventures occurs at the intersection of passion, vision, opportunity, and uncommon offering.  You can have a good venture without all four components.  However, in order to create or have a great venture, you must nail each component.
Passion is the fuel of your enterprise.  It gets you [...]]]></description>
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