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		<title>Short Videos on Business Achievement &amp; Success</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2010/11/10/short-videos-on-business-achievement-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several of my videos on business growth and achieving success have been posted on the World New and Report web site. This is one place where you can view key videos. The videos and what we cover are listed below. As you can see all are less than 11 minutes (because I know how busy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is all about results and only results!</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2010/01/06/it-is-all-about-results-and-only-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been running advisory board for several years now and I have been asked why I offer a 100% return on your investment guarantee to the board members. The answer is simple: we get results. Let me share with you a case study. I had a company owner join The Entrepreneur’s Advisory Board because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Others Know the Answer to This Question &#8220;What Do You Do?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2009/10/12/do-others-know-the-answer-to-this-question-what-do-you-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I meet with someone the meeting typically started with this question: What do you do? The answer was always: I am a financial planner, I am an accountant, I am a business coach, etc. I always found this to be an inadequate answer because it does not tell me anything. I change the question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Phil or Napoleon Hill! (or just schizophrenic)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am starting to get develop an identity crisis. My client’s have started calling me the Dr. Phil of business coaching because of the tough love and my no excuse approach to business coaching.  &#160; I recently published my fourth book called Nine Principles to Inspired Action: A New &#38; Targeted Perspective. A gentleman from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shortening my Path to Success.</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2009/02/09/shorting-my-path-to-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently completed an offsite with my Business Mastery Advisory Board. I think of this as shortening my path to success.  &#160; We do these once a year with members who see the value in spending time working on their business to get ready for the next year, ask for help in clarifying issues that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goal Setting</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2009/01/08/goal-setting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several of my associates are using www.iLearingglobal.biz/ronf to help them with their personal and business growth. Below is an unedited email from one of them. I thought I would share it because this training works and works well.     I got a lot out of the &#8220;Goal Setting&#8221; section; took some notes that might encourage others to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>500 Business Owners Have Spoken. They Told What They Did to Be Successful!</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2009/01/07/500-business-owners-have-spoken-they-told-what-they-did-to-be-successful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[500 Business Owners Have Spoken. They Told What They Did to Be Successful! January 1, 2009 &#8211; Ron Finklestein, President of AKRIS INC, a Business Coaching and Consulting firm, and Robert Schepens, President of Champion Staffing, A Job Near Home.com and Drug Free Solutions NEO, have published a breakthrough book called Nine Principles For Inspired Action: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Recession Proof Your Business</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2008/10/26/how-to-recession-proof-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Recession Proof Your Business What&#8217;s the common mistake most businesses make in a recession?    I believe business owners, especially new business owners, make nine fundamental mistakes, especially in a market downturn.   These nine common mistakes have been identified by interviewing hundreds of business owners: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is Intelligent Self-Interest Different From Enlightened Self-Interest</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2008/09/28/when-is-intelligent-self-interest-different-from-enlightened-self-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received the following comment to the blog post I wrote on intelligent self-interest. I included the link for those of you who wanted to read (reread) it. http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2008/07/22/the-power-of-intelligent-self-interest/ Here are the comments: You seem to have taken the reverse side of the coin marked &#8216;Enlightened Self-Interest&#8217; which encourages us to take up the burden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Let Go</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2008/09/26/learning-to-let-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning to Let Go I was listening to Jim Britt on www.ilearningglobal.biz/ronf conduct a short training video on The Power of Letting Go. Britt talks about not about your going after what you want but what you become. He uses happiness as an example. He addresses the question: How do you become happy? He suggests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Grow Your Business During a Recession &#8211; 11 Actions You Can Take</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2008/04/13/how-to-grow-your-business-during-a-recession-11-actions-you-can-take/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business owners, especially new business owners, make nine fundamental mistakes, especially in a market downturn, when growing their business.  These nine common mistakes have been identified by interviewing hundreds of business owners: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good ones do things right. The bad ones have never been taught to be business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. &#8212; Thomas Edison</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2008/03/20/many-of-life%e2%80%99s-failures-are-men-who-did-not-realize-how-close-they-were-to-success-when-they-gave-up-thomas-edison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received this quote from a friend after a particularly difficult time. He frames it and presented it to me because he admired what I was accomplishing and the work and effort it required. I hang it on my wall as a reminder that persistence is required. It is titled The Man In The Arena [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Behaviors That Lead to Success</title>
		<link>http://www.rpfgroupinc.com/2008/03/04/nine-behaviors-that-lead-to-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a reuslt of my research, I was able to isolate nine specific behaviors that successful people implement in their business. Let’s discuss the nine behaviors. 1.     Selfishness … Selfishness is defined as intelligent self-interest. Intelligent self-interest means to understanding what is important. What is important is helping business owners be success. It is this intelligent [...]]]></description>
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