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3 Secrets To Leading Change When Changing is Tough.

Business & Career

Nothing changes in your life until you decide you need to change. It doesn’t matter what incentive is in front of you or what penalty is behind you — you will only change when you decide for yourself that change is necessary. That’s true for you. And it’s true for everyone else around you. That’s …

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Mindset & Purpose

High performance. You know it when you see it. It’s one of those stories you can tell a dozen times and still be excited each time. It’s captivating to watch. More of an experience than just an event or an occasion. The comeback story of Tom Brady and the New England Patriots at Superbowl LI …

Continue reading “The Greatest Sports Comeback Story And 3 Secrets To Winning All High-Performers Live By.”

Mindset & Purpose

Ever since my youngest daughter was born seven years ago I wake up from time to time with a reoccurring dream. Somehow, I’m backing over my little girl with the car that I’m driving. In my dream, I’m not paying attention, while she is doing something cute and not noticing that I’m leaving — and …

Continue reading “8 Ways To Stop Letting Fear Keep You From Being The Person You Were Meant To Be.”

Mindset & Purpose

No matter how bad things are right now for you, they are better than they could be. That alone should fuel your sense of gratitude. And when you think about it further, you realize how very good you have it. No matter how desperate your situation might feel, you still have the opportunity for change …

Continue reading ““You’re Basically Crushing It” And Other Reasons For Gratitude.”

Mindset & Purpose

Stop saying “I can’t”. Enough already with the “should I” or “I don’t know how” self-chatter. If you are being honest with yourself and the rest of the world most of what you “can’t do” really ought to be an honest discussion about what you “won’t do”. It’s easy to reply to a hard challenge with the observation …

Continue reading “Why Winners “Won’t”.”

Performance & Productivity

Life comes at you fast. It doesn’t matter whether you are an entrepreneur, an actor, business leader, or just trying to get ahead — you’re going to have to make it through tough times It’s easy to get an idea stuck in your head about the direction your future should be going. About how much …

Continue reading “25 Truths To Guide You Through Tough Times From That Time Rocky Sold His Best Friend.”

Mindset & Purpose

It was a little after 4 AM when I got to the starting line. It was freezing cold — barely 20 degrees outside. I was wearing Nike running tights, a compression shirt, and a light running jacket. It was my last race of the year — a 50 miler through horse trails in beautiful North Carolina. …

Continue reading “26 Mistakes That Will Stop You From Achieving What You Want In Life.”

Mindset & Purpose

You only have to spend a little bit of time around negative people to know the devastating impact of thoughts. What you think about most becomes the reality of your life. If you are controlled by bitterness and regret, all you seem to see around you are things that make you angry and frustrated. The same as …

Continue reading “5 Unshakeable Truths About The Power Of Positive Thinking.”

Business & Career

I’ve stopped giving other people advice. Well, not exactly. I still have as many opinions as I have always had, I’ve just realized that giving good advice is really hard to do. It’s almost automatic that I’ll give you bad advice. Not horrible, malicious advice — just insight and perspective that are completely unhelpful. And …

Continue reading “You’re Listening To Bad Advice. Here’s What To Do About It.”

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 …

Continue reading “15 Rules Champions Live By To Get Things Done Each Day.”

Leadership & Influence

There are a lot of things that make certain leaders great — excellent timing, a mind for numbers, ruthless efficiency, awesome sales skills, and much more. Great leaders become great because they are intentional about doing things that feel uncomfortable and seem silly and insignificant at the time but lead to greatness. Here’s the cool …

Continue reading “30 Qualities That All Successful Leaders Share.”

Mindset & Purpose

Achieving success is going to take you longer than you think it is. Despite what you’ve heard from experts that want you to believe that if you follow a series of proven steps success is an easy outcome — nothing could be further from the truth. And that’s absolutely not because you’re not dedicated or …

Continue reading “It’s Going To Take You Longer Than You Think It Will. And What To Do About It.”

Mindset & Purpose

You’re tougher than you think you are. You can work longer than you think you can work.You can keep trying a few more times before you’re all out of ideas.You can think harder than you’re thinking right now.You can figure out a way to fix your financial problems no matter how troubling they are.You can …

Continue reading “If You Can Tough It Out You Will Figure It Out.”

Relationships & Love

So here’s the thing about integrity. A lot of people talk about having it. No one claims to have lost it. Few know what it even means. Think about it — you yourself have probably talked about yourself to others and shared with them that you are a “person of integrity.” I know that I …

Continue reading “The Unspoken Truth About Having Integrity And What To Do About It.”

Mindset & Purpose

Changing your outcomes requires some tweaks to your daily manufacturing process. Those changes start with tiny details. Those details turn into habits. Those habits create outcomes that push you closer to where you want to be.

Mindset & Purpose

You can’t make other people awesome if you’re not committed to the same for yourself. The way people learn how to be awesome is by watching you do it first.

Mindset & Purpose

You’ll be battered and bruised by the journey. And that’s on a good day.

Mindset & Purpose

In any discussion about beliefs, people stand on one of two sides — the “I don’t have it” side and the infectious “I got all of it” side.

Mindset & Purpose

You wish you had some momentum. You get discouraged. Things seem to be falling apart. They aren’t working out the way you had planned.

Mindset & Purpose

It was Isaac Newton who first identified the physics of momentum.

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Dan Waldschmidt doesn’t just talk about leveling up. He’s obsessed with it. He's set records as an ultra-runner and been the personal strategist for the leading business leaders of our time. He wrote a book, called EDGY Conversations that accidentally became a worldwide bestseller and continues to share his insights from the stage as a keynote speaker and on the blogs and podcasts you will find here. Most days, you'll find Dan heads-down, working on breakthrough strategies for his clients at EDGY Inc, a highly-focused, invite-only, business strategy execution company based out of Silicon Valley.

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