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 GODINThere’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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If you want to be a leader, go lead
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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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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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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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Soon is not as good as now.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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