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

Seth Godin

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
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
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
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
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
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers

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