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Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.

Seth Godin

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
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 job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
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
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
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
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
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
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
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
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Business Inspiring Motivational
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
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
Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Choices Pain Saying Yes
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision

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