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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.

Seth Godin

Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Dead Ends Ends Situation
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
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
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
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Believe Entrepreneur Jobs
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.

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