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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.

Seth Godin

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
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
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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Jester Needs People Roles
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
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
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity

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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