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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

Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
SETH GODIN

Adding Value Values
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
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
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
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
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning

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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