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Thanking #1146 · From Chad

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  What is the healthiest emotion? There's a story behind that.
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  This is your daily message from Chad #1146 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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  Lincoln Francis in celebration of his birthday.
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  Happy Birthday Lincoln. You can get a free copy of my
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  book, 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 can feel entitled to what you have, but upgraded thinking
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  knows there is someone to thank for all of it.
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  Here's the story. When the Soviet Union collapsed
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  in 1991, teachers walked into their classrooms and hit a wall.
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  For 70 years, the state had taught children to be grateful
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  to the party, grateful to the system.
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  Thank you, Comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood, was the
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  phrase kids were taught, and it had spent those same 70 years
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  erasing God. So when the whole structure
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  fell, teachers went looking for a way to teach gratitude and
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  couldn't find the ground to stand on.
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  One researcher interviewed educators who told him flatly,
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  We're looking for moral answers right now because we don't have
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  any. The Russian word for thank you,
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  spasibo, comes from May God save you.
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  The Soviets pushed it out and replaced it with thank you,
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  comrade. But you can feel what got lost,
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  because a person who never learns to be grateful will never
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  understand. There has to be a transcendent
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  reference point. There is someone capital S.
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  He owes his existence to his breath, his family, his
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  mourning, the whole gift of being here at all.
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  That's the trap of entitlement. It quietly deletes the capital.
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  W who? And once there's no one to
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  think, there's nothing left but demand.
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  Zig Ziglar used to say the healthiest of all human emotions
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  is gratitude. If that's true, then entitlement
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  is the disease and gratitude is the antidote.
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  Years ago, my mentor Bill Calvin, one of the most joyful
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  man I've ever known, told me he ended each day by naming 3
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  people he was grateful for. So I started writing five things
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  I was thankful for every morning.
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  Today is day 4700 in a row and I'll tell you what it does.
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  It keeps The Who in view. It keeps me from believing I
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  earned anything. The better story to tell
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  yourself is I'm not entitled to anything.
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  I'm grateful for everything. Tell me a story of gratitude to
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  from chadsmith@gmail.com and send someone a text and tell
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  them I'm thankful for you today.