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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Seth Godin

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
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
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
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
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
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
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
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

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