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

Seth Godin

In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Aim Bother Catchy
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
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
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
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
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

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