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Rewriting #1134 · From Chad

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He spent two days in 52nd place. There's a story behind that.
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This is your daily message from Chandler 1134 to upgrade your
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mental game today by telling yourself a better story.
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Because the most important story you hear is the story you tell
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yourself. This message is dedicated to
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Atlas Crew Whitaker on his birthday.
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You can get a free copy of my both the Most Powerful Story in
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the World by going to from chad.gumroad.com.
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The transcript of this message and hundreds of others are
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always available at www.fromchad.com.
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Here's the upgrade. You think being far back means
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you're out of it, but upgraded thinking knows Friday is a
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location, not a verdict. Here's the story.
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You may not be a golfer, but his story still has a very important
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lesson for you. A few days ago at Royal Birkdale
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in England, which is the oldest golf championship in the world,
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a 39 year old New Zealander named Ryan Fox lifted the Claret
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Jug as champion. The bookmakers had him at 200 to
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one. That means if you bet $10, you'd
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win $2000. He had never won a major in his
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life. After two of the four rounds,
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Fox sat in 52nd place, 52nd. For two days, your eye would
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have run right past his name without stopping.
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Then Saturday, he shot A621 of the lowest rounds anyone had
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ever fired at a major. He didn't play the leaderboard.
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He played the next shot. On Sunday, he closed with four
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birdies in his last six holes and rolled in one more on this
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72nd to win by a single stroke, the largest 36 hole comeback by
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position in the history of men's major golf.
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And here's how he did it. He didn't play 4 rounds.
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He didn't play 72 holes. He took one swing 270 times and
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270 was the exact number on his winning scorecard.
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He never played the tournament. He played the next shot over and
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over until the shots added up to a championship.
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Now notice what did not happen. Fox didn't become a different
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golfer overnight. The swing that won on Sunday was
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the swing that sat in 52nd on Friday.
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Same course, same swing. Nothing changed but the story.
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He refused to believe. Stephen King learned this craft
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from his editor. He said, quote, when you write a
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story, you're telling yourself the story.
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When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things
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that are not the story. End Quote.
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And that's exactly what Fox did and what you need to do too.
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His rewrite was deleting one sentence. 52nd place means I'm
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finished. Because it was never part of the
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actual story. It was just a line he had told
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himself on Friday. Most people never delete that
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line. They read the standings, they
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read the odds. They decide the ending.
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They stop planning their next move.
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Fox kept planning his. He's living proof that where you
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stand at the halfway point is a location, not a verdict.
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The better story to tell yourself is I'm not behind.
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I'm not finished. There may be a number in your
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life that says you're behind your age, your bank balance,
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your rank, your resume. That number is real, but it's
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not the one that pays. The tournament isn't over.
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You're still holding a club if you're still breathing.
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The story isn't over, so stop reading the ending in the
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middle. Cross out the sentence.
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That isn't the story. Don't play the round, play the
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next swing. Andre Agassi, the tennis star
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said it best about his own comeback.
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He said, quote, the same court on which you suffer your
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bloodiest defeat can become the scene of your sweetest triumph.
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End Quote. Royal Birkdale held Fox in 52nd
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for two days. Then it crowned him.
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Same course, same swing, different story.
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Delete everything from your story that isn't part of the
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story. Tell me a story of a comeback
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from the back of the pack to from chad.smith@gmail.com.
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Send someone to text and ask them where are you counting
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yourself out too early?