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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Seth Godin

There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
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
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
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 less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
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
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Believe Entrepreneur Jobs
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself

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