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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.

Seth Godin

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
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
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 problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
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
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
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
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
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
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
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
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
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
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

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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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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