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Motivating #1156 · From Chad

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  Finding motivation in unexpected places.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chadmer 1156 to upgrade your mental gain 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 my mentor, Doctor Rob Gilbert.
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  If you'd be disappointed if these messages went away,
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  leaving a comment or passing it along to a friend is a vote of
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  confidence to keep these daily messages showing up every day.
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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.fromchat.com.
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  Here's the upgrade. You may think picturing the
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  worst is negative, but upgraded? Think he uses that picture to
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  protect what you still have. Here's the story Doctor Gilbert
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  told me recently. He attended the most motivating
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  event he could remember. It wasn't a conference.
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  It wasn't a keynote. He visited an assisted living
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  community and he walked out knowing one thing.
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  He never wants to live in one. But most people didn't choose it
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  either. They're there because they need
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  help to live. And he learned something that
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  really Jarred him. One of the most common reasons
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  people end up in assisted living is that they can't get off the
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  toilet on their own. They lost the leg strength to
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  stand up. It wasn't a heart attack or a
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  stroke. They simply can't push
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  themselves up out of a chair anymore.
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  And it's not the very old doctor.
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  Gilbert said he sees people in their 50s and 60s who can't
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  stand up without grabbing something to pull on.
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  The legs go 1st, and when the legs go, independence goes with
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  them. The Stoics had a practice they
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  called premeditatiomalorum, the premeditation of evils.
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  You imagine what could go wrong. Not to be gloomy, but to
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  prepare. William Irvine calls it the
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  single most valuable technique in the Stoic psychological
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  toolkit. They weren't being pessimists.
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  They were getting comfortable with difficulty before it
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  arrived. So when it came, they met it
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  with clarity instead of shock. So Doctor Gilbert did what the
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  Stoics did. He looked straight at the thing
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  he feared, and he let himself see it.
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  And then he walked out and started strengths training.
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  Not out of vanity, but out of vision.
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  The better story to tell yourself is I imagine the fall
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  so I can keep standing on my own.
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  You already know this rhythm. You discomfort yourself on
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  purpose, so the real discomfort never gets to decide your life
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  for you. And that's the whole practice.
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  You picture the fall so you can keep your footing.
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  You imagine losing your health and suddenly today's workout
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  isn't a chore, it's a privilege. Tell me a story where
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  anticipating something bad was good to from
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  chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask
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  them. Can you still stand up out of a
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  chair without using your hands?