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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

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Aim Bother Catchy
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Believe Entrepreneur Jobs
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
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
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
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
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe

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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