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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

Seth Godin

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
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
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
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
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

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