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- 15 Rules Champions Live By To Get Things Done Each Day. Posted in: Performance & Productivity - You can’t control if you get lucky. You can’t even control if you get a fair chance. Despite the best education, smart planning, and friends in high places, you can be blindsided by the worst of unfair conditions. Your good ideas can be spoiled by petty people. Your honorable intentions can be undone by passive-aggressive …
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- Frederic Tudor: How To Turn Your Ice-Cold, Crazy Ideas Into Epic Success. Posted in: Mindset & Purpose - It was at a dinner shortly after the wedding that the idea came up. One of Frederic’s younger sister had just married the most eligible bachelor in town. Chilled drinks were flowing. And so were the ideas. As Frederic’s rich older brother William joked with friends, out tumbled one of those ideas: ice for everyone. …
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- You Shouldn’t Have To Pee Blood Before You Ask for Help. Posted in: Mindset & Purpose - Looking back, it was the stupidest move I could have made that day. Especially since I was about to run the longest race of my life. Stepping foot into the Landsford Canal 24-Hour Race I had big plans for what I wanted to accomplish. For the last few weeks, I had been raising money for …
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- Why You Don’t Get Better Even Though You Really Want To. Posted in: Mindset & Purpose - Nothing changes until you change. Until you get started. It’s easy to get caught up in the passion of dreaming. And certainly, there’s power in visualizing a better future. But dreams without action quickly become delusion. And the irony of being in that predicament is that the difference between success and failure is merely you …
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- Just Because You Don’t Feel Like It Doesn’t Mean You Shouldn’t. Posted in: Performance & Productivity - Success demands courage. If you are going to get to where you want to be, you are going to have to be courageous when you least feel prepared to find it inside yourself. The chaos of the battle faded briefly from his mind. Replaced with raw panic and fear.William D. Hawkins bowed his head to …
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- Frederic Tudor: How To Turn Your Ice-Cold, Crazy Ideas Into Epic Success. Posted in: Mindset & Purpose - It was at a dinner shortly after the wedding that the idea came up. One of Frederic’s younger sister had just married the most eligible bachelor in town. Chilled drinks were flowing. And so were the ideas. As Frederic’s rich older brother William joked with friends, out tumbled one of those ideas: ice for everyone. …
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- You Shouldn’t Have To Pee Blood Before You Ask for Help. Posted in: Mindset & Purpose - Looking back, it was the stupidest move I could have made that day. Especially since I was about to run the longest race of my life. Stepping foot into the Landsford Canal 24-Hour Race I had big plans for what I wanted to accomplish. For the last few weeks, I had been raising money for …
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- Just Because You Don’t Feel Like It Doesn’t Mean You Shouldn’t. Posted in: Performance & Productivity - Success demands courage. If you are going to get to where you want to be, you are going to have to be courageous when you least feel prepared to find it inside yourself. The chaos of the battle faded briefly from his mind. Replaced with raw panic and fear.William D. Hawkins bowed his head to …
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- LIZ MURRAY: THE DAY SHE TURNED HOMELESS INTO HARVARD. Posted in: Mindset & Purpose - She came home from school to find her mom sitting on the couch, staring blankly out of the window. After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence, she blurted out the news.
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- Frederic Tudor: How To Turn Your Ice-Cold, Crazy Ideas Into Epic Success. Posted in: Mindset & Purpose - It was at a dinner shortly after the wedding that the idea came up. One of Frederic’s younger sister had just married the most eligible bachelor in town. Chilled drinks were flowing. And so were the ideas. As Frederic’s rich older brother William joked with friends, out tumbled one of those ideas: ice for everyone. …
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- 74 Miles, 12 Lessons, 3 Broken Toes And 1 Finish Line. Posted in: Energy & Health - I weighed 168 pounds. With all my gear on. The only reason why I know that is because I was required to step on a scale and be measured. It was the Arkansas Traveller 100 — and my first 100-mile ultra-marathon. The reason for being weighed sounds absurd at first. But if you lose too …
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- You’ve Got This. Posted in: Mindset & Purpose - You’ve got this. This moment you’re going through right now. This trying time. The sleepless nights. The tossing and turning. The self-doubt and embarrassment that you feel. You’ve got this. Let me remind you that life is what you make it. The outcomes you experience aren’t always fun or fair or logical. Sometimes it just …
- You Don’t Have To Enjoy The Pain To Celebrate The Progress You Are Making. Posted in: Performance & Productivity - They call it the pain cave. I never heard it called that before. So I stopped and paused. Turned my head a little. The pain cave? I was new to ultra-running and felt out of place as a group of seasoned competitors were talking about how they would feel in the race. We were all …
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The Power of Saying No Posted in: Podcast - This episode of Dan's podcast will remind us that clarity comes from activity and not the other way around. You can't wait to know what you are going to do perfectly before you get started.
What Do You Want Posted in: Podcast - This podcast episode talks about the importance of knowing our purpose in life. As we age, this purpose that we focused on might change. 
On Being Effective Posted in: Podcast - "Being effective is not just doing more work but stop it, put yourself in a position where you can look at where you are and know if it's working. " - Dan Waldschmidt
This episode talks about being effective versus being efficient. Performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort, Being effective is about doing the right things while being efficient is about doing things right.
As you listen to this episode, try to ask yourself this question, Is this getting me closer to where I want to be?
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