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If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.

Seth Godin

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Aim Bother Catchy
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
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
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
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
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
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
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting

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