Things to Forget
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Forget Keeping Up
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Theodore Roosevelt Keeping up with the Joneses Keeping up appearances Keeping up with… you know But is that really a good use of your time? As a creative, sometimes you’re going to be way ahead and sometimes you’re going to be way behind a trend, an innovation, the crowd, a host of things.
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Forget Being Afraid of Numbers
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” Marie Curie I read a fascinating article called Hanson Could Have Disappeared. Here’s Why They Didn’t in the February 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. (For a little background Hanson is an American band, made up of three brothers, that broke out in the late 1990s with the hit “MmmBop”) One statement, of many, that stood out for me was when Taylor Hanson said this:
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Forget Intention
Good intentions are not good enough. They’ve never put an onion in the soup yet. Sonya Levien Action always beats intention.