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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.

Seth Godin

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
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
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
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
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
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.

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