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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

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
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
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
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
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
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
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes

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