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Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

Seth Godin

There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
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
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
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
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People

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