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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.

Seth Godin

Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
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
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
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
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
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
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
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Art Being Huaman Impact Unique
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
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
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.

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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.

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