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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

Seth Godin

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
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
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
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
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
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
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
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

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