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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

Seth Godin

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
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
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
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
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
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
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
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
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
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

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

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