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Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.

Seth Godin

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
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

Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.

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