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The End Of The Road.

No problem is big enough to stop you. No obstacle is tougher then you are.

People can’t stop you. Movements can’t stop you. Companies can’t stop you.

A bad economy, lost customers, failed ideas, and a crowd of cynics — none of these can stop you.

The only thing that can stop you is you.

When you decide to give up. When you decide to stop believing.

When you decide that it hurts too badly to keep moving forward.

Those are your decisions. No one else’s.

No one is forcing you to quit. You’re deciding that is what you want to do.

The end of the road is just the place you decide to quit.

It’s not over till you say its over.

You’re not done until you decide you’re done.

That’s tough to hear. Especially when it feels like most of the universe is outside of your control.

Don’t despair. Don’t blink. Don’t back down.

Don’t forget for one second that everything you want for yourself dies when you decide to give up.

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Before It Gets Better.

Your problems aren’t going to go away that quickly.

They’re going to look worse before you start to feel better.

Life is going to get tougher for you, even though you’re working harder and trying more, pushing in ways you’ve never done before.

In spite of all of that, you’re going to have to soldier through more uncomfortable days. And sleepless nights. 

Before it gets better, it’s going to get worse.

You’re going to have to work hard and realize few results. You’re going to scratch and claw and barely make any progress at all.

You’re not going to feel the momentum you’re creating. You won’t be able to enjoy the progress you’re making.

It’s all going to feel like failure. Failure on top of past failure. More of the same.

And in those moments of darkness it is easy to imagine that your goal isn’t worth fighting for. That now is the wrong time to make radical changes. That you are not the person who is destined to achieve greatness.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

It has to get worse before it gets better.

You can’t make progress without pain.

That’s the hard truth about getting unstuck. You’re going to have to get a little bit more broken before the pieces start coming together the way you want them to.

Your path forward isn’t just a straight line. It’s an unknown forest where desperation and fear plague you every step of the way.

Don’t give up now.

Don’t give up because you’re trying harder than ever and not seeing the results you think you deserve.

Don’t quit now simply because nothing seems to be working.

Dig your heels in. Lift your head up. Square your shoulders.

And place your feet in front of the other, step after step after step, until you get to where you want to be.

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How To Live When It’s Dead Easy To Die.

It was January in 1913 in a remote section of Antarctica.

Douglas Mawson was 14 feet away from the top of the crevice — hanging by a rope attached to his waist.

The sledge wedged into the snow above him was the only thing keeping him alive.

As he swung helplessly– his feet unable to reach either side of the crevice to push off and climb — his only thought was that he had not finished eating the rest of the food on his sledge.

Douglas Mawson was the leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, a team of 31 scientists and adventurers pursuing the most ambitious exploration yet of the southern continent. Mawson was determined to return from his expedition with the most scientific analysis of the area, including geographic analysis, meteorology, magnetic measurements, local biology, atmospheric science, and movements of the glaciers.

But it wouldn’t be easy.

Every part of their journey would be a struggle of magnificent proportion.

Their base camp at Commonwealth Bay was built on an ice shelf that proved to be mostly unlivable. The average constant wind speed that year was 50 mph — with Douglas recording regular winds approaching 200 mph. With blizzard conditions daily, this was quite literally the windiest place on the planet.

In those harsh conditions it took the team 10 months to build out their camp and put together plans for their expedition deeper into Antarctica.

The airplane they had brought with them was a bust as well. It had been damaged on the journey to Antarctica and was converted into a tractor on sleighs. But the engine wasn’t build for such cold conditions and would only work for a few minutes at a time.

They would use the scrap metal to reinforce their huts.

By December 14, 1912, despite the impossible odds against them Douglas Mawson and his 2-man team and several dozen dogs were 35 days and almost 300 miles into their exploration. He had assigned himself the hardest of the 8 different explorations that fanned out from their windy base at Commonwealth Bay.

They had already crossed 2 glaciers and hundreds of deadly crevices — deep holes in the ice hidden by a powdering of snow.

That Saturday morning in December was no different. Xavier Mertz, guiding a dog sled ahead of Mawson raised his pole signalling a dangerous crevice ahead. He carefully navigated his way diagonally across the thin ice instead of head-on. Mawson did the same.

Continuing on, Douglas heard the faint whimper of a dog behind him.

Ahead of him, Mertz turned around, hearing the same sound himself. It was the look on his face that shook Douglas to his core.

A gaping hole in the snowbridge showed a crevice 150 foot deep where a husky lay whimpering with a broken back. There was no other sign of their companion, Lieutenant Belgrave Ninnis, or the sledge.

He was gone — along with their best dogs, their tent, and nearly their entire food supply for the expedition. 

They improvised a tent out of extra sledge runners and a tent cover they found. It was just enough for room for both of them to crawl into.

The next morning they begin their race home. And for the first few days they made excellent time.

But it wasn’t long until their dogs gave out.

When the huskies could no longer pull the sledge, Mertz and Mawson carried them to their makeshift camp for the day and shot them, eating as much of the meat is they could stomach and throwing the scraps to the rest of the dogs.

It wasn’t long before only a single dog, Ginger, was able to pull the sledge. So the two men hitched themselves to the harness and pulled alongside her. They would only make it a few miles before they collapsed, exhausted by the snow drifts that were 4 feet tall in places.

It wasn’t just the dogs that were dying. Mertz was sick, losing weight rapidly. His fingers were horrifically frostbitten and he was too weak to move. 

He couldn’t go on.

Determined not to let his friend die, Mawson convinced him to ride in the sledge while he pulled it a few miles each day. Day after day, Mawson pulled as Mertz’s condition steadily deteriorated into a slow and painful death. After burying his friend, Mawson was determined to make it back to base.

Most of his food was gone and his body was in horrible condition.

He had open sores on his lips, nose, and scrotum. Hair was falling out of his head in large clumps and the skin on his legs was peeling off in large strips. The soles of his feet had detached completely from the skin and sinew holding together the rest of his foot. Using tape from his pack he desperately attached the dead soles to his feet and put on 6 pairs of wool socks.

With every step, blood and pus oozed from the bottom of his frozen feet. He was still 80 miles from camp and growing desperately weaker by the day.

But step by step he made his way home

And then he stepped through an ice bridge and found himself hanging by a rope in a deep crevice. Weakened by hypothermia and near starvation — he hung 14 feet below his sledge which was straddling both edges of the crevice.

He reached for the first knot in the rope and desperately pulled himself up. Holding on, he reached for the next knot. And then the next. Inch by inch he pulled himself up the harness rope. Praying that the ice would hold.

Reaching the top of the crevice he rolled his body onto the snow covered lip of the crevice. His weight caused the overhang to break off — plunging him back down into the icy crevice. His raw hands were slippery with blood. His fingers, frozen and numb. Utter despair overwhelmed him. He wanted to die. It was too much for him to bear.

As he hung in the tangles of the harness rope, a verse from his favorite poet, Robert Service, flashed through his mind: “Just have one more try—it’s dead easy to die. It’s the keeping-on-living that’s hard.”

Inch by inch. Minute by minute. Knot by knot.

Mawson made his way back up the rope. When he reached the top of the crevice he pushed his feet out first and then pulled his weakened frame free of the edge, rolled over and, passed out. A few hours later he would wake up covered in snow. He got to his feet and kept walking.

Days later he would find a chest of supplies left by a rescue party of his follow explorers out looking for him — food, supplies, and a map showing him the final 28 miles back to base. It would take him the next 10 days to make it back to the base.

When he arrived, the Aurora, a rescue ship sent to rescue them was on the horizon — having left just 5 hours earlier. It would be 10 months later before that same ship would come back for Mawson and the 6 men who stayed behind to find him.

He had survived against all odds.

When Mawson finally reached Australia in February a year later, he was welcomed as a national hero and knighted by King George V.

It is Douglas Mawson’s face you’ll see on the Australian one hundred dollar banknote.

His life was an improbable story of courage and triumph made possible by simply trying.

If you too find yourself hanging by a thread, with hands raw and bloody from past tries, think of Mawson and keep moving towards where you want to be.

You might have lost skin off your fingers and might find yourself taping your feet back together. Friends might die. And ideas fail.

You can give up and die. Or your can try. And live.

And be the hero of your life from this day forward.

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What Do You Want?

What do you really want?

The question isn’t what you need or what you like or even what you hope happens.

It is — what do you want?

When is the last time you thought seriously about what you want?

Do you want more money?

Do you want less stress? Are you looking for a way to grow your business?

Maybe it’s satisfaction you want or the personal enjoyment of proving someone else wrong.

You won’t get what you want until you know what you want.

Instead of buying into the ideas and aspirations of other people, you have to dig deep in your soul and challenge your preconceived notions about what you want.

You can do anything.

You can achieve whatever you set your mind to do. But none of that happens if you don’t know what it is you want.

Before you do, you have to know.

What you want might be so crazy you’re not comfortable sharing it with anyone else.

That’s okay. The person who needs to know knows.

The shame for most people is that they’ll allow themselves to be stressed out and overworked executing what somebody else wants for themselves rather then taking time to sit quietly and figure out what they want for themselves.

Nothing changes until you know what you want. Figure that out first.

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You Can’t Delegate Awesome.

You can’t delegate the things that mean the most to you.

Your success is dependent upon mastering the details. Not just getting the project finished.

You can’t outsource awesome.

At least not at a price you’re willing to pay.

The truth about beating the odds and realizing breakthrough is that you have to agonize over the solution and work tirelessly trying new things until the big thing ends up looking like what you had in your mind all along.

That’s not easy. That’s not cheap. That’s not something you can hand off to anyone on your team, family, or circle of friends.

You have to do it yourself.

Otherwise you’re not going to win the way you feel you should.

You’re never going to feel the satisfaction of accomplishment and triumph and domination until you schedule time to get your hands dirty looking for that ever so slight tweak that differentiates you mightily from everyone else pretending to do the exact same thing.

Don’t forget that as you lead your team in stand up meetings and status reports.

If you’re not getting the answers you want, it might be because you’re not doing the work that needs to be done.

You’re not invested as much as you need to be. A little hard work and focused attention can fix all of that.

If it matters, act like it. Do the hard things yourself.

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17 Awesome Business Tools You Need To Be Using.

Smart technology is everywhere. If you’re like most business people, you can’t help but feel that there are too many tools out there.

They all sound the same. Which leaves you confused, frustrated, and uninterested in changing.

Let’s cut through the clutter. Here are a few awesome business tools you need to be using:

BUSINESS RESEARCH TOOLS

These tools help you learn all you can about prospective companies, existing clients, or industry partners

Owler (link) — The team that built the revolutionary Jigsaw email finder platform that Salesforce purchased for hundreds of millions of dollars is at it again with another blockbuster sales research tool. Instead of researching people, Owler researches companies. It’s easy to find and select which companies you want to follow. Each morning, you get a customized email with everything that happened at that company yesterday that you should know about. This service, which costs many thousands of dollars per year from other companies, is completely free from the Owler team. Drop what you are doing and sign up now.

CRM & ADDRESS BOOKS

These tools help you organize the people you know, the deals you need to close, and the marketing that gets you there

Cloze (link) — We have used them all — every CRM on the planet (or so it feels) — and Cloze is by far the best to use if you need to build and maintain relationships with people. It collects, organizes and manages all the people you need to know — right beside your email (and social) inbox. It’s epic.
AgileCRM (link) — It has ‘CRM’ in its name but with features like landing pages and social and web tracking and smart email campaigns it’s really the best all-in-one marketing platform on the planet. And it’s 1/10 the cost of Hubspot or Infusionsoft.

SECURITY & PASSWORD SHARING

These tools help you keep your team safe and secure without emailing usernames and passwords around

LastPass (link) — Forget your passwords? Share your passwords over email? LastPass saves all your passwords for you and even allows you to set up sharing groups where you can allow family or friends to use your passwords — without them ever seeing what the actual password it.
Blur (link) — It’s the most technical personal security platform  out there. It allows you to create disposable credit cards, phone number, or email addresses. It saves your passwords for you and notifies you when you might have gotten hacked.

PROSPECT RESEARCH

These tools help you learn all you can about prospects you want to do business sometime soon

AeroLeads (link) — In a cluttered category of lead and prospect research, AeroLeads has the best combination of capture and results. They claim to verify email address and phone numbers multiple times before they pass it along to you. It works.
Capture (link) — Ever want to zip through a website and vacuum up all the people and email addresses (and other contact information) you find there. Meet Capture by Ringlead. Not only will it capture leads on a website it verifies the email addresses and exports everything to Salesforce.

SCHEDULING EFFICIENCY

These tools make it easy to schedule and prepare for awesome meetings

Charlie App (link) — Connect Charlie to your Google calendar (or Outlook) and it will automatically research everyone you are planning to meet with. An hour before your meeting you’ll get an email with everything you need to know about those people.
Assistant (link) — At the push of a button, Assitant checks your calendar and suggests up to  3 days worth of availability for meetings. It runs in Gmail, right where you are sending emails, so it is fast and a tremendous time saver.

GETTING-THINGS-DONE

These tools help you plan out what needs to be done and assign responsibilities to the people who need to help you get there

Todoist (link) — This is the best tool ever created to handle recurring tasks, reminders, and team planning. They have native apps for more than a dozen different environments so you can take it anywhere and use it anytime.
Wrike (link) — Imaging if Microsoft Sharepoint and Project decided to build an epic productivity platform for today’s generation of Gantt Chart-needing professionals. It’s mobile friendly. And runs in your browser. And it’s free to start using.

DESIGN PLATFORMS

These tools help you ditch Photoshop and make it super easy to create impressive images for social media

DesignFeed (link) — The hands-down, best ever online tool for creating epic quotes for social media. It is incredibly easy to use, but to make it even easier you can pick one of their curated designs, swap out the content, and post it live in seconds.
Canva (link) — Ditch Photoshop and invest a few of those dollars in Canva. Edit images. Design new ones. Create social media content or designs for business cards or brochures. Share your designs with your team.

CONFERENCING

These tools make it easy to collaborate with your team, partners, or prospective customers

Appear (link) — Go to your Appear link (ours is appear.in/edgy) and do some video conferencing, or share your screen, without needing to download all those bloated desktop apps. It’s fast. And easy. And free.
SpeakEasy (link) — Instead of waiting on hold for people to join your conference call, SpeakEasy will call you on your cell when the people who need to be on the call actually show up. Saves you time. Saves you from being a chump who uses FreeConferenceCall.com.

SECURITY & MISCELLANEOUS

These tools keep you safe while sharing files or cruising the internet each day

WhoHasAccess (link) — Connect it to you Google Drive account with a push of a button and wait for it to tell you who has access to any one of your files. Using the tools you can take back sharing permissions too. It’s a free and awesome way to stay safe.
Disconnect (link) — Download one of their free apps or pay a little more to get unlimited secure and anonymous access to the internet. Makes web browsing safe while your traveling or using WiFi from your local coffee shop.

Try one. Try them or all. Or bookmark this article for when you are looking for great tools down the road.

Great businesses use smart tools to do more with less.

These are just the sort of tools to do that for you.

The post 17 Awesome Business Tools You Need To Be Using. appeared first on Dan Waldschmidt: Author of EDGY Conversations.

Copyright by Waldschmidt Partners Intl... Not sure that all that legal stuff really matters. If you want to share this material, do so. Just don't charge for it and don't tell people you wrote it. Both of those are uncool.

Other than that, all rights are reserved to you to change your life. If you are ready to be amazing, now is the time to get started. Onward...

17 Awesome Business Tools You Need To Be Using

Smart technology is everywhere. If you’re like most business people, you can’t help but feel that there are too many tools out there.

They all sound the same. Which leaves you confused, frustrated, and uninterested in changing.

Let’s cut through the clutter. Here are a few awesome business tools you need to be using:

BUSINESS RESEARCH TOOLS

These tools help you learn all you can about prospective companies, existing clients, or industry partners

Owler (link) — The team that built the revolutionary Jigsaw email finder platform that Salesforce purchased for hundreds of millions of dollars is at it again with another blockbuster sales research tool. Instead of researching people, Owler researches companies. It’s easy to find and select which companies you want to follow. Each morning, you get a customized email with everything that happened at that company yesterday that you should know about. This service, which costs many thousands of dollars per year from other companies, is completely free from the Owler team. Drop what you are doing and sign up now.

CRM & ADDRESS BOOKS

These tools help you organize the people you know, the deals you need to close, and the marketing that gets you there

Cloze (link) — We have used them all — every CRM on the planet (or so it feels) — and Cloze is by far the best to use if you need to build and maintain relationships with people. It collects, organizes and manages all the people you need to know — right beside your email (and social) inbox. It’s epic.
AgileCRM (link) — It has ‘CRM’ in its name but with features like landing pages and social and web tracking and smart email campaigns it’s really the best all-in-one marketing platform on the planet. And it’s 1/10 the cost of Hubspot or Infusionsoft.

SECURITY & PASSWORD SHARING

These tools help you keep your team safe and secure without emailing usernames and passwords around

LastPass (link) — Forget your passwords? Share your passwords over email? LastPass saves all your passwords for you and even allows you to set up sharing groups where you can allow family or friends to use your passwords — without them ever seeing what the actual password it.
Blur (link) — It’s the most technical personal security platform  out there. It allows you to create disposable credit cards, phone number, or email addresses. It saves your passwords for you and notifies you when you might have gotten hacked.

PROSPECT RESEARCH

These tools help you learn all you can about prospects you want to do business sometime soon

AeroLeads (link) — In a cluttered category of lead and prospect research, AeroLeads has the best combination of capture and results. They claim to verify email address and phone numbers multiple times before they pass it along to you. It works.
Capture (link) — Ever want to zip through a website and vacuum up all the people and email addresses (and other contact information) you find there. Meet Capture by Ringlead. Not only will it capture leads on a website it verifies the email addresses and exports everything to Salesforce.

SCHEDULING EFFICIENCY

These tools make it easy to schedule and prepare for awesome meetings

Charlie App (link) — Connect Charlie to your Google calendar (or Outlook) and it will automatically research everyone you are planning to meet with. An hour before your meeting you’ll get an email with everything you need to know about those people.
Assistant (link) — At the push of a button, Assitant checks your calendar and suggests up to  3 days worth of availability for meetings. It runs in Gmail, right where you are sending emails, so it is fast and a tremendous time saver.

GETTING-THINGS-DONE

These tools help you plan out what needs to be done and assign responsibilities to the people who need to help you get there

Todoist (link) — This is the best tool ever created to handle recurring tasks, reminders, and team planning. They have native apps for more than a dozen different environments so you can take it anywhere and use it anytime.
Wrike (link) — Imaging if Microsoft Sharepoint and Project decided to build an epic productivity platform for today’s generation of Gantt Chart-needing professionals. It’s mobile friendly. And runs in your browser. And it’s free to start using.

DESIGN PLATFORMS

These tools help you ditch Photoshop and make it super easy to create impressive images for social media

DesignFeed (link) — The hands-down, best ever online tool for creating epic quotes for social media. It is incredibly easy to use, but to make it even easier you can pick one of their curated designs, swap out the content, and post it live in seconds.
Canva (link) — Ditch Photoshop and invest a few of those dollars in Canva. Edit images. Design new ones. Create social media content or designs for business cards or brochures. Share your designs with your team.

CONFERENCING

These tools make it easy to collaborate with your team, partners, or prospective customers

Appear (link) — Go to your Appear link (ours is appear.in/edgy) and do some video conferencing, or share your screen, without needing to download all those bloated desktop apps. It’s fast. And easy. And free.
SpeakEasy (link) — Instead of waiting on hold for people to join your conference call, SpeakEasy will call you on your cell when the people who need to be on the call actually show up. Saves you time. Saves you from being a chump who uses FreeConferenceCall.com.

SECURITY & MISCELLANEOUS

These tools keep you safe while sharing files or cruising the internet each day

WhoHasAccess (link) — Connect it to you Google Drive account with a push of a button and wait for it to tell you who has access to any one of your files. Using the tools you can take back sharing permissions too. It’s a free and awesome way to stay safe.
Disconnect (link) — Download one of their free apps or pay a little more to get unlimited secure and anonymous access to the internet. Makes web browsing safe while your traveling or using WiFi from your local coffee shop.

Try one. Try them or all. Or bookmark this article for when you are looking for great tools down the road.

Great businesses use smart tools to do more with less.

These are just the sort of tools to do that for you.

The post 17 Awesome Business Tools You Need To Be Using appeared first on Dan Waldschmidt: Author of EDGY Conversations.

Copyright by Waldschmidt Partners Intl... Not sure that all that legal stuff really matters. If you want to share this material, do so. Just don't charge for it and don't tell people you wrote it. Both of those are uncool.

Other than that, all rights are reserved to you to change your life. If you are ready to be amazing, now is the time to get started. Onward...

Those Things.

You say you’re committed. You say that you would do anything to get to where you want to be.

But what about when that means changing something that’s a secret little pleasure for you?

In truth, there are endless distractions that distract you from what really matters.

Sometimes it’s fun things.

Other times it’s bad habits, lousy training, or lack of effort.

If you’re stuck and not sure why things aren’t working out the way you expect, it’s probably because you’re not willing to change something you’re excusing away right now.

It’s probably one of those secret little pleasures too. Something that you justify away as being a reward for all the other good things that you do.

That thing. Those things. They’re the reason you’re stuck.

And will stay stuck. Until you decide to change them.

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How To Guarantee You Make The Best Decision.

Trust your gut instinct when it comes to making difficult decisions.

You already know the right decision to make. Deep down, in that quiet spot in your soul where all is true and clear, you have the answer.

And you need to trust your gut instinct. That immediate feeling you have when you’re with that person or hearing that idea.

Logic will mislead you.

Facts aren’t always what they appear to be.

In truth, fear and doubt and frustration will bias your decisions. Deceiving you. You think your decision is well thought out, balanced, and risk appreciated.

You are really just frantic, frustrated, and hoping no one notices.

The way through that chaos is to listen to your instincts.

Don’t be pressured by fear or anger.

Don’t let someone else’s logic and reasoning persuade you to sell yourself short.

Believe that no matter how hard things might seem at the moment, you’ll figure it out. And that this time will be better than last time because of all the lessons you’ve learned and experience you’ve gained.

Don’t sell yourself short. Make the best decision.

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Be All In. All The Time.

Go hard. Push hard.

If you have an idea that matters to you — an idea that mean something deeply to you — then go for it.

Push for it.

Don’t “float a trial balloon”. Don’t “run a beta test”.

Don’t limp into action.  Go hard. Push hard.

Put everything you have into being successful.

You won’t always end up with the results that you think you deserve right away. You won’t end up winning the prize on your first try. 

But at least you’ll have given your bold idea the dignity of honest effort.

You won’t be left wondering whether you could have been more successful if you would have only invested more ambition and creativity into getting to where you want to be.

You won’t be confused as to what doesn’t work — you or your strategy.

There’s something magical about the unique achievement made possible by the desperation of a competitor who lays it all on the line.

That warrior who holds nothing back.

The gladiator in the arena doesn’t get the chance to play it safe. He must step upon the sand with purpose and resolve and commitment at every conquest.

That tool is your road map for success. The formula to rising above mediocrity and unrealized expectations.

You have to be all in. All the time.

Not when you think it matters. Not when you think the right people are watching.

Now. Right now. Today. Tomorrow. And every day that you enter the arena of life.

It’s game on. With everything that you have.

Go hard. Go home a champion.

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