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Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.

Seth Godin

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
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
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
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Believe Facts Matters What
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Aim Bother Catchy
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
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes

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