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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

As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
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
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
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
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
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
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
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
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
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
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World

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