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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.

Seth Godin

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
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
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Business One Perfect Wise
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress

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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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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