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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Seth Godin

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
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
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
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
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
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Change Inspirational Inspiring
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo

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