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Flipping #1204 · From Chad

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  You get to take the field today. There's a story behind that.
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  This is your daily message from Chad #12104 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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  Ozzy Smith. Get a free copy of The Most
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  Powerful Story in the World at 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.
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  Here's the upgrade. You may feel like today is
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  nothing special, but upgraded thinking knows being alive is
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  the privilege you'll never deserve.
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  Here's the story. Ozzie Smith grew up in Watts,
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  South Central Los Angeles. His family lived near a pallet
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  factory. He used a plank between stacks
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  of wood as a springboard, flipping into sawdust piles.
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  His mother would catch him covered in dust, but the
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  fearlessness stuck. Years later as spring training
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  1978 with the San Diego Padres, he's rookie and it's been a long
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  day of workouts. He's the guy near the back of
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  the pack, but to show he's still got energy, he does a round off
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  backflip, just like he used to do into the sawdust piles.
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  Fan Appreciation Day comes at the end of the season, and Smith
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  is asked to do a flip when he takes the field.
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  He's reluctant. He doesn't want to seem like a
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  hot dog, but he does it. People like it enough to ask him
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  to do it again. Opening Day Over time the flip
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  becomes a tradition. Opening days post season All
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  Star games even at 40 years old on Opening day 1995 and again in
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  1996 when the Saint Louis Cardinals retired his uniform.
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  Almost 20 years of flipping out over the game he loved and for
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  the fans who supported him. Years later, in his Hall of Fame
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  speech, Smith reflects on his whole journey.
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  He talks about the dream, the faith, the people who believed
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  in him, the courage to get back up after being knocked down.
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  Steve Dentman, writing about the culture of baseball, captured
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  what Smith understood quote. Watching some guys take the
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  field is painful. It's an honor to play baseball.
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  Run on the field like you want to be here.
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  In quote, that's what Ozzie Smith did.
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  He ran on that feel like he wanted to be there because he
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  understood something simple. Being able to run onto the field
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  is a privilege. The better story to tell
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  yourself is every day is a privilege.
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  You don't have to do a black backflip when you get out of
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  bed, but you can't flip your attitude by recognizing today is
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  special because you get to be here.
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  Send me a story of someone who acknowledged the privilege of
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  what they got to do. You can e-mail me at
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  fromchadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask them
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  what is one thing that makes today special.