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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

Seth Godin

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Brave Needs People
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
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
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
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
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
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
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
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want

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