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Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Seth Godin

The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
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
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
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
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
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
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Business Inspiring Motivational
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
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers

Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

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