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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

Seth Godin

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Citizens Thinking Watches
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
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
I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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Believe Games Rules Thinking
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
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
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
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
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
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
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
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
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
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision

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