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.
SETH GODINLoving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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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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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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Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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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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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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Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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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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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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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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