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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

Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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Almost Loving Important
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
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
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
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
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
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
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
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
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work

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