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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.

Seth Godin

The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
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
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
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
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
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
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning

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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