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

Seth Godin

In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
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
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
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
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
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
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
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 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
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain

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