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At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.

Seth Godin

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
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
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
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
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
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.

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At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.

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