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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.

Seth Godin

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
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 Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Dead Ends Ends Situation
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
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
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
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
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
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

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.

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