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People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Seth Godin

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
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
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
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
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
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

People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

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People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

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