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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.

Seth Godin

One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings

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