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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

Seth Godin

Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
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
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Business Fire People
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World

Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.

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