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Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.

Seth Godin

Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
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
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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Artist Creativity might
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
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
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training 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
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
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
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity

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