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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

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
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 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
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get 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
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
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
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Brave Needs People
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
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
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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Almost Loving Important
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way

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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