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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

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
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying 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
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
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
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
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
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Brave Needs People
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
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

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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