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

Seth Godin

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
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
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
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
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People

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

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