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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.

Seth Godin

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
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
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
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
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
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
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning
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
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
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
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People

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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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