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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.

Seth Godin

Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
The person who fails the most wins.
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Failing Persons Winning
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
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
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
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
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
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
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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Emotional Organization People
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
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
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
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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Artist Creativity might
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
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

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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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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