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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

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
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
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
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Change Inspirational Inspiring
You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Business Inspiring Motivational
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
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
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
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

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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