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If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work

Seth Godin

Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
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
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work

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If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work

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