Seth
Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.Collection: Pain
Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.Collection: Art
The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this.Collection: Might
The most I can do is to acquaint you with the authority of your own psyche - to give you a trust in the nature of your being. For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. You can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through back yards.Collection: Trust
Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?Collection: Hate
Forget the cringing selves you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully.Collection: Reality
I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.Collection: Believe
In a world of free, everyone can play.Collection: Business
The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind.Collection: Real
Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.Collection: Looks
Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.Collection: Team
If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth.Collection: Attention
Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.Collection: Time Keeping
Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.Collection: Phones
And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.Collection: Real
If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.Collection: Differences
Cosmo Girl with a passion for fashion and a magic flask.Collection: Girl
The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.Collection: Organization
True creativity comes from enjoying ?the? moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity.Collection: Letting Go
If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you.Collection: Flower
You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.Collection: Self
You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that makes your world; there are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.Collection: Believe
Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.Collection: Philosophy
You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.Collection: Writing
The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel.Collection: Leader
It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.Collection: Important
The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.Collection: Track
Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.Collection: Hurt
Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread.Collection: Selfish
We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.Collection: Death
The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.Collection: Business
The lizard isn't listening and the lizard doesn't care.Collection: Listening
Marketing by interrupting people isn’t cost-effective anymore. You can’t afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing messages, in large groups, and hope that some will send you money. Instead, the future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other. Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk.Collection: People
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.Collection: People
If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.Collection: Finding Yourself
If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!Collection: Reality
The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.Collection: Order
You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.Collection: Want Something
People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.Collection: Loneliness
Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.Collection: Boss
Now: For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence.Collection: Lazy
In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thought and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.Collection: Independent
The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. They don't get filed away, they transform us.Collection: Ideas
Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.Collection: Thinking
As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.Collection: Business
The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.Collection: Senior
Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.Collection: Change