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Blooming #1169 · From Chad

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  She broke 4 ribs and still said she'd crawl to the ballpark if
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  that's what it took. There's a story behind that.
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  This is your daily message from Chad #1169 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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  Mabel Blair. Here's the upgrade.
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  You think when something you built comes to an end, it's gone
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  for good. But upgraded thinking knows some
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  things you plant don't die. They just wait.
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  Here's the story. In 1948, a young woman named
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  Maybelle Blair pitch for the Peoria Red Wings.
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  She played in the All American Girls Professional Baseball
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  League, the one you know from the movie A League of Their Own.
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  She was the inspiration for the character all the way May.
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  Then in 1954, the league folded. The lights went out.
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  Women's professional baseball in America was over.
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  For most people, that was the end of the story.
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  Mabel went on and lived her life. 72 years passed and on
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  August 1st of this year, at 99 years old, Mabel Blair was
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  wheeled onto a field in Springfield, IL to throw out the
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  first pitch of a brand new league, the Women's Professional
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  Baseball League. The first of its kind since her
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  league died before some of your grandparents were born.
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  She'd broken 4 ribs just weeks before 99 years old.
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  Four broken ribs. And here's what she told the
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  news crew. Nothing was going to stop me
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  from being here, even if I had to crawl.
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  She watched women play the game she loved, a game everyone said
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  was finished. She called it the happiest day
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  of her life. Now think about the math on
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  that. The thing Mabel helped start
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  with? Dark for 72 years, longer than
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  most people are alive. If you told her in 1954 that the
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  seed was still good, that it would bloom again while she was
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  still breathing to see it, she'd have every reason not to believe
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  you. But it did.
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  The better story to tell yourself is what I plant today
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  may bloom long after I've stopped watching for it.
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  Here's what I want you to take from that.
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  You're going to build things that end, programs that close,
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  efforts that stall, dreams that get shelved, and you'll be
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  tempted to call them dead. They may not be dead.
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  They may just be planted, waiting to bloom again.
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  You don't always get to see the harvest.
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  Mabel almost didn't. But the good you put into the
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  world doesn't get an expiration date just because you stopped
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  seeing results. Some seeds bloom on a 72 year
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  delay, so don't count it out. Keep planting anyway.
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  You can learn more about the WPBL at Women's
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  probaseballleague.com. Tell me a story of a seed that
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  bloomed late to from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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  Send someone a text and ask them what's something that came back
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  around you never thought you'd see again.
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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.