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Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.

Seth Godin

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
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
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
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 only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
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
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
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting

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