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Waiting #1219 · From Chad

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  Waiting is not doing nothing if you're doing it on purpose.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chad #12119 to upgrade your mental game 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 Karen A Barbonell.
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  Here's the upgrade. You may think waiting is
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  weakness, but upgraded thinking knows patience is power.
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  Here's the story. In the summer of 1812, Napoleon
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  marched into Russia with nearly half a million men.
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  He wanted one thing a big, decisive battle.
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  That's how he won. Find the enemy.
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  Crush the enemy. Dictate the terms.
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  The Russians saw him coming. Months before the invasion, an
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  officer named Peter Djokovic wrote the plan down in a memo.
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  Fight a war exactly contrary to what the enemy wants.
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  Don't give him his battle. Trade space for time.
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  The man who had to hold to that plan was Mikhail Kutuzov.
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  He was in his late 60s, heavy and half blind from an old head
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  wound. The court and the public wanted
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  Moscow defended, so we gave them one fight at Burradino.
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  It was one of the bloodiest days in history, and it settled
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  nothing. And then he did what nobody
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  could stand. He retreated and gave up Moscow.
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  Napoleon rode into the ancient capital and waited for the czar
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  to surrender. He sent envoys asking for terms.
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  The Tsar refused to negotiate while French troops remained on
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  Russian soil. The city burned.
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  Supplies ran short. 5 weeks went by, and Kutuzov waited too.
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  Napoleon was waiting for something.
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  Kutuzov was waiting on purpose. In October, Napoleon finally
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  retreated. Kutuzov didn't sit still.
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  He followed. He harassed the retreat mile
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  after mile, kept up pressure with rearguard actions, raids
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  and battles, never letting the French regroup.
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  The Grand Army came apart under hunger, cold, disease, and
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  relentless Russian pressure. Napoleon had written the warning
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  himself. Retreats, he said, cost more
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  than the bloodiest of battles. In a battle, the enemy loses
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  about as much as you do. In a retreat, you lose and he
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  doesn't. He knew it.
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  He walked into it anyway because he couldn't stand to wait.
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  The better story to tell yourself is I'm not stuck, I'm
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  waiting on purpose. Patience isn't doing nothing.
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  Patience is refusing to play the other person's game.
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  It's going slow now so you can move fast later.
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  The plan was the easy part. The hard part for Kutuzov was
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  holding to it while everyone else called him a coward.
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  His patience paid off though, and he saved the country.
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  Maybe you're waiting right now on a job, an answer, a child to
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  come around. You've done the work and nothing
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  has moved. You haven't lost though.
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  Hold the plan, be patient. Patience is power.
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  Tell me a story of patience that paid off for you to from
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  chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone to text and ask
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  them, what are you waiting on right now?
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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.