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You are not your resume, you are your work.

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
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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
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
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
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
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary

You are not your resume, you are your work.

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