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Keep Your Head in the Clouds and Your Feet in the Mud

Learn to avoid the minutiae of the middle. You need to focus on the high and the low

IF YOU’RE AN ENTREPRENEUR who is struggling with average results, there’s a good chance you’re stuck in “the middle.” You don’t want to be there. By the middle, I mean you’re probably too focused on the minutiae, the 99 percent of the stuff you encounter every day that has nothing to do with what you want out of your business and is not part of the hard work

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