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The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

Seth Godin

In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
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
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
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
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
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
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
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
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
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running

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