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Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Seth Godin

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
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
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
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
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Ideas Tribute Two Years
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
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People 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
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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

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