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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.

Seth Godin

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Choices Pain Saying Yes
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
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
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
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission

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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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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