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

Change, Escape, Inspirational, Inspiring, Vacation, Wondering

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

Art, Doe, Matter, Gift, Changes

I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.

Falling In Love, Struggle, Organization, Status, Part, Good

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

Generosity, Hard Work, Long, Waste, Way

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

Person, Persons, Work, Wrecks

If you measure it, it will improve.

Ifs, Improve, Measure

Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

Blanks, Fill, Give, Giving, Opportunity, People

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

Consumer, Excellence, Expectations, Good, Quality, Sees

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Actually, Dream, Long, Stick, Sticks, Time

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

Ceases, Cliff, Cliffs, Incrementalism, Routes, Strategy

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.

Competition, Full, Hands, Holding, Revisiting, Technology

Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.

Jobs, Heart, Being Human, Acknowledge, Human, Factory

The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.

Care, Customers, Marketing, Price, Reason

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before.

Genius, Problem, Solved, Solving, Way

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Art, Hate, Navigating, Tell, Wrestle, Writing

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

Different, Indispensable, People, Way

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

Dealing, Evolution, Popular, Way

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

Vocabulary, Voice, People, Act, Hones, Encourage

Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.

Art, Challenge, Creativity, Insight, Wall, Work

Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

Team, Want, Saying No, Saying, Professional, Stop

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