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I Stalked Steve Jobs (And How To Get A Meeting With ANY VIP) - Forbes

I would no longer see barricades. Stumbling blocks would now be seen as stepping stones to something better, or something to crawl over or walk around. Previous limitations would now be a mere triviality, at worst a slight inconvenience. There were insanely great things to create and we were here to create them and that’s all there was to it. All thoughts to the contrary were irrelevant.

In 30 years in business the approach above has always worked for me. The key is the letter. Be authentic, heartfelt, compelling. Care. Make it a work of art.

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"The secret of all progress and every virtue is, in fact, to know how to begin again – to learn from a failure and to try once more.
Nunc coepi! Begin again!"

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Fr. Georges Chevrotl

(Source: spitzercenter.org)

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"That’s good that you won a lot of trophies, it’s nice, but you know what? After I sell a bunch of records, I take all the platinum ones off the walls and pretend I haven’t sold a damn one and I’ve got to go do it all again."

- Lady Gaga (as a guest judge on the American edition of “So You Think You Can Dance”, Season 8 Episode 18)

(Source: psychologytoday.com)

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"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next."

- Steve Jobs (NBC Nightly News, May 2006)

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

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"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

- Steve Jobs (Stanford commencement speech, June 2005)

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle."

- Steve Jobs (Stanford commencement speech, June 2005)

(Source: The Wall Street Journal)

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Don't Give Up - Nilofer Merchant - Harvard Business Review

… just because you stop doing something doesn’t mean you are quitting. Sometimes it’s bravery to know it’s time to stop and walk away.

We can quit things, but what we can’t quit is fighting for our dreams.

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I Don’t Want To Be Motivated By Anyone But Myself

Motivation is made up of two factors: personal structure - meaning values and principles learned in family, things learned studying or making experiences - and consciousness - meaning the capacity of recognizing and dealing with problems.

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com

“The golden circle”: ( ( ( why ) how ) what )

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it

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Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything | Video on TED.com

Main takes from it, emphasis mine…

“And proceeded to look at — I wanted to set competition so I’d have a deadline — Parkinson’s Law, the perceived complexity of a task will expand to fill the time you allot it. So I had a very short deadline for a competition!”

“This brings us to the point, which is, it’s oftentimes what you do, not how you do it, that is the determining factor. This is the difference between being effective — doing the right things — and being efficient — doing things well whether or not they’re important.”

Momentum Breakers vs Momentum Makers

Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do (at TED.com)

(funny improv interaction with Al Gore starting at 5:15)

Bottom line:

What are you going to focus on?

Right now, you have to decide what you’re going to focus on. In this second, consciously or unconsciously. The minute you decide to focus on something you’ve got to give it a meaning, and whatever that meaning is produces emotion. Is this the end or the beginning? Is God punishing me or rewarding me, or is this the roll of the dice? An emotion, then, creates what we’re going to do or the action.

It’s not about resources, it’s about resourcefulness, the EMOTION behind.

Shape the STATE that you are in: Focus -> Meaning -> Emotion -> Action