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Extending #1133 · From Chad

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Today isn't separate from your future, it's a sample of it.
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There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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Chandmer 1133 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 Kayla Hall.
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You can get a free copy of my book, 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 today is just one day.
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But upgraded thinking asks a harder question.
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If you repeated exactly what you did today 365 more times, where
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would it leave you a year from now?
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Here's the story. Charlie Munger, the man who sat
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next to Warren Buffett for half a century, was asked how he got
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so wise. His answer wasn't talent.
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It was one hour a day, every day.
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He sat down and read. Slow going at first, nothing to
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show for it in a week or a month.
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But he did it 365 times. And then he did that again.
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And again. 4 decades at 100, he was a far better thinker than he
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had been at 50. The knowledge had compounded
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quietly, invisibly, one ordinary hour at a time, Munger said.
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Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when
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you woke up. Slug it out one inch at a time,
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day by day. One inch.
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That's all today is asking of you.
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Not a transformation. An inch, because that's what
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you're actually doing. You can't move much in a day,
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but keep going in that direction.
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You're not living one day, you're voting for a year.
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Today isn't separate from your future, it's a sample of it.
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An empty field doesn't stay empty, and neither does a
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calendar. Repeat a wasted day 365 times
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and you've thrown away a season of your life.
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Repeat one good hour 24 times and you've built something
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nobody can take from you. The inch doesn't feel like
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anything on day one. Wise and lazy look identical.
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The reading looks pointless. The workout changes nothing.
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The quiet days tempt you to quit because the harvest is still
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underground. But compounding doesn't care how
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you feel. It only counts what you repeat.
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The rope you spin today is thin enough to snap.
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Layer it 365 times and it's too thick to break and it's either
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pulling you toward the person you want to be or dragging you
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back to who you were. When Munger was 50 years old, he
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had accumulated less than 1% of the wealth he would eventually
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have when he died, at 199% of his wealth was earned in the
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second-half of his life. The better story to tell
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yourself is I'm not spending a day.
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I'm casting a vote for the year I'll have.
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So stop asking whether today was a good day.
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Ask a bigger question. Would you want 365 more of it?
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If the answer is no, you don't need a new year.
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You need a new today, and you have one right now in your
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hands. Kevin Kelly's line from
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Excellent Advice for Living extends the horizon.
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He said quote, miraculous things can be accomplished if you give
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it 10 years. A long game will compound small
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gains that will be able to overcome even big mistakes.
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In quote Tell me a story of a day worth repeating the from
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chad.smith@gmail.com Send someone a text and ask them if
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you lived a day 365 more times, where would it take you?