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Recording #1171 · From Chad

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Rags became a record. There's a story behind that.
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This is your daily message from Chad.
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We're 1171 to upgrade your mental game today by telling
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yourself a better story because the most important story you
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hear is the story you tell yourself.
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This message is dedicated to Frank Soma, sales trainer and
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speaker, who's been drilling one line into me for years, which is
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make a commitment, make it public, make it happen.
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Here's the upgrade You think the safest place to keep a
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commitment is private. But upgraded thinking knows the
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commitment you're brave enough to make public is the one that
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eventually becomes your masterpiece.
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Here's the story. I have a couple of Dolly Parton
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stories to share this weekend. Not many public figures can be
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isolated by their first name. Dolly is part of that exclusive
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club. Her career spanned more than six
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decades. Her work and service earned her
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the title Queen of Country. US flags have been ordered to
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half staff for the week the Empire State Building was lit
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pink Grand Old Opry is dedicating today's show to her.
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Buckingham Palace's Coldstream Guards performed at 9:00 to 5:00
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at Changing the Guard. And there's a renewed push in
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Tennessee to rename Nashville's airport for her.
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Dolly Parton grew up in a one room cabin in the Smoky
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Mountains of Tennessee. 1 of 12 kids dirt poor, 1 winter.
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Her mother didn't have money for a coat, so she made one out of
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scraps of rags sewn together patch by patch.
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While she sewed, she told young Dolly the story of Joseph's coat
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of many colors from the Bible. By the time it was finished,
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Dolly didn't see rags. She saw proof she was rich in
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something money can't buy. That was the commitment.
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A mother with nothing deciding her daughter would be covered in
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love instead of going without. Then came the hard part.
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Dolly had to make it public. She put that coat on and walked
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into a school room full of kids wearing real coats, store bought
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coats, and they laughed at her. They mocked her.
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Somebody locked her in the coat closet.
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Making it public didn't feel like a victory that day.
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It felt like exposure, felt like the wrong move.
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But Dolly didn't take the coat off and bury the memory.
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Years later, she made it happen. She wrote a song about that day
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titled Coat of Many Colors and turned a memory of getting
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mocked in a rag coat into one of the most beloved songs in
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American Music. Out of more than 3000 songs
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she's written, she is called it her favorite.
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The thing she got laughed at for wearing became the thing she's
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most loved for writing. That's the whole sequence.
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In order. Her mother made the commitment,
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Dolly made it public at the cost of getting mocked for it, and
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years down the road, she made it happen, turned a humiliation
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into a hit, and rags into a record.
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Frank's line isn't just a sales tactic, it's a life pattern.
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Commit to something, say it, wear it, show it before you know
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how it ends. Let people laugh if they're
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going to laugh. The public part is never
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comfortable, it's just necessary.
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The better story to tell yourself is I've made the
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commitment, made it public and made it happen.
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Tell me a story of turning ridicule into something you're
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proud of to from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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Send someone a text and ask them what's the thing you got laughed
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at that you're proudest of. Now you can get a free copy of
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my 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.