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You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

Seth Godin

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
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
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
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
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
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
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen
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
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
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
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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

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