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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

Seth Godin

Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
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
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
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
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
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
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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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want

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