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Piling #1147 · From Chad

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He made a $69 million masterpiece by never trying to
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make one. There's a story behind that.
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This is your daily message from Chad #1147 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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Mike Weekleman. 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 want a great life, but upgraded thinking knows it's
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built out of great days, one after another.
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Here's the story. On May 1st, 2007, a graphic
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designer in Charleston, SC named Mike Winkleman decided to make
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one piece of digital art and post it.
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Nothing special. The early ones weren't good, and
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he'd be the first to tell you that.
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Crude little sketches, the kind of thing you'd be embarrassed to
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show anybody. But he made another one the next
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day, and the next. He called the project every
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days. He kept going.
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He didn't stop through his kids being born.
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He didn't stop on the days he didn't feel like it.
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The sketches became illustrations and the
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illustrations became elaborate 3D scenes every single day for
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over 13 years. One new piece, no misses 5000
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days. Then in early 2021 he stitched
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the 1st 5000 of those images into one giant collage.
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Christie's, you know the 255 year old auction house put it up
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for sale, is sold for $69,000,000 and made him one of
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the three most valuable living artists on earth next to names
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like Hockney and Coons. Nobody paid $69 million for day
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one. Day one was a throwaway.
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They paid for the stack, the pile, the masterpiece was never
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a single image. It was 5000, ordinary days that
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no one applauded, sitting on top of each other until they were
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worth a fortune. My mentor, Brian Johnson has a
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name for this. He calls them Masterpiece Days.
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His whole philosophy is simple. If you want to create a great
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life, you create a great day. And then you do it again
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tomorrow. You don't win the life, you'll
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win the day. Today's the day.
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Not someday. Not someday never comes.
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There's a target you're building toward, and there's one thing
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you can do today that moves you an inch closer to it.
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That inch is the whole game. The better story to tell
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yourself is my life is a masterpiece built one day at a
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time. Mike never did a great thing.
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He did a small thing on a day that didn't matter and then
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again on the next day that didn't matter until the days
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that didn't matter became the thing that mattered most.
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That's a masterpiece day and a life is just a pile of them.
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Tell me a story of a masterpiece.
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Data from chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask what
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is one thing you accomplish on your best days.