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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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Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
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
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
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
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
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
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
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
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
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
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational

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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