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As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.

Seth Godin

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
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
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Business One Perfect Wise
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
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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Jester Needs People Roles
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting

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