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The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

Seth Godin

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
SETH GODIN

Change Inspirational Inspiring
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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Decision Mistakes Sweat
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
SETH GODIN

Art Tragedy Wrecks
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
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.
SETH GODIN

Competition Requirements Way
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
SETH GODIN

Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
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
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
SETH GODIN

Health Inspire Stress
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.
SETH GODIN

Anyway Persons Yourself
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
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
SETH GODIN

Business Gigs Mind Own People
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
SETH GODIN

Belief Believe Brilliant Happen

The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

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The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

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