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The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

Seth Godin

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
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Dead Ends Ends Situation
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Business Fire 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
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
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
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
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
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States

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