Grit doesn’t mean you stick it out — stuck alongside negative people.

Persistence doesn’t mean you have to swim through the sludge of pessimism.

Focus isn’t blind. Discipline isn’t stupid.

The tough truth is that you know where you want to go.

It’s your dream. Your ambition.

Don’t let your ambition get suffocated under the oppression of other people’s criticism and skeptical thinking.

Refuse to let other people’s doubts become an affirmation of your inadequacy.

Fight through the fear that leads you to believe you’re not going to be able to achieve what you want for yourself.

Do the things that matter most.

Prioritize your day so that the things that need to get done end up happening.

Progress is the goal. Daily progress. Hourly progress. Sometimes, minute by minute progress.

You don’t need to be perfect to make progress. You just have to keep moving forward.

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  • Dan Waldschmidt

    Dan Waldschmidt is an international business strategist, speaker, author, and extreme athlete. His consulting firm solves complex marketing and business strategy problems for savvy companies all over the world. Dow Jones calls his Edgy Conversations blog one of the top sales sites on the internet. He’s been profiled in Business Week, INC Magazine, BBC, Fox News, The Today Show, and Business Insider, has been the featured guest on dozens of radio programs, and has published hundreds of articles on progressive business strategy. He is author of Edgy Conversations: How Ordinary People Achieve Outrageous Success.

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