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Serving #1172 · From Chad

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Why Dolly Parton slept in her make up.
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There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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Chad #1172 to upgrade your mental game today by telling
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yourself a better story. Because the most important story
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you hear is the story you tell yourself.
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This message is dedicated to Denise Abrams on her birthday.
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Happy birthday and Denise, you can get a free copy of my book,
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The Most Powerful Story in the World, by going to from
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chad.gumroad.com. The transcript of this message
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and hundreds of others are always available at
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www.fromchad.com. Here's the upgrade.
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You think keeping yourself polished when nobody important
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is watching his vanity. But upgraded thinking knows it's
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one of the purest forms of service there is.
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Here's the story. This is the second message I
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promised you this weekend to celebrate the life of Dolly
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Parton. The range of tributes have been
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remarkable. Presidents of both parties,
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Buckingham Palace, hip hop and pop stars and truck stop
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regulars all acknowledge there will never be another Dolly.
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The honors that stood out were the ones that mixed state ritual
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with her own symbols. Pink lights at 9:25, a nod to
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her movie and song, Nine to five flags at half mast for a week, a
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governor proposing a name change to an International Airport and
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a palace band playing a working woman's anthem.
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Dolly called herself quote always St. ready in quote.
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Other times, ambulance ready. She meant the same thing.
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Either way, she was never going to be seen without her hair done
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and her makeup on. Not on stage, not backstage, not
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at a gas station off the Interstate at 2:00 in the
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morning. She said she slept in her makeup
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while touring because you never know if you're going to wreck
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the bus. She was prepared to meet
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strangers in the wreckage of a bus crash, looking like Dolly
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Parton on her own bus. She had a bedroom and bathroom
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built in the back for one reason, so she never had to walk
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out in front of the crew without her face on.
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A quick stop for gas was, to her, a public appearance.
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She didn't have a formula for that image.
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She had a promise, and the only way you keep a promise like that
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is to actually live it. Gas stage, gas station stop or
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Grammy stage. Estee Lauder had the same
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instinct. She'd ride a bus 6 hours to open
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a single store in Corpus Christi, TX because no community
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was too small for her attention. She was always going to give her
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full effort. It's the same math as Dolly's
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bathroom in the back of the bus. There is no small audience and
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no off duty moment. Isador Sharp built The Four
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Seasons hotel chain on one sentence he repeated to his
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executives for decades. We are only what we do, not what
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we say we are. Dolly sleeping in her makeup was
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an action, and actions express priority.
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She was telling you what mattered without ever having to
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say it out loud. The better story to tell
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yourself is the people I meet today deserve the best version
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of me, whether I planned on meeting them or not.
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Here's why it mattered so much to her.
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Every person you meet is carrying, as Mary Kay used to
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put it, an invisible sign around their neck that says make me
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feel important. A fan who runs into a tired
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woman in sweatpants at a fuel pump gets a deflation.
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A fan who runs into Dolly Parton gets a story they tell for 40
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years. She wasn't protecting her ego.
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She was protecting their moment. Tell me a story of someone who
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showed showed up for you when they didn't have to to.
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From chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask them
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who's expecting your best today.