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Emptying #1142 · From Chad

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  The richest place on earth is not a bank vault.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chad #1142 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 Todd Henry.
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  Here's the upgrade you may tell yourself you'll get to it
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  someday, but upgraded the He knows the grave is full of
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  people who are still getting ready.
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  Here's the story. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said
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  many people die with their music still in them.
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  And then he told us why. Too often is because they're
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  always getting ready to live, and before they know it, time
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  runs out. The richest place on Earth isn't
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  a bank vault. The cemetery is the wealthiest
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  ground on the planet. Not because of what's in the
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  caskets, because of what's in the people.
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  Potential never used. Books that were never written,
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  Songs that were never sung. Businesses never started.
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  Cures never discovered. The apology never spoken.
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  The I love you never said. All of it buried.
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  A career coach named Dan Miller told about a pharmacist who came
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  up to him after a talk. The pharmacist had been his
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  profession 17 years, and Miller asked him about his dreams.
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  The man went quiet. He couldn't name a single one.
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  One responsibility had led to another for so long that his
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  dreams had been buried alive somewhere back down the road.
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  And standing there, Dan Dan recounted a grown man within a 3
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  minute conversation began to weep in front of him because he
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  realized he'd carried his music around for 17 years and never
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  played a note. That doesn't have to be your
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  story, Todd. Henry wrote a whole book about
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  this, and he gave it a blunt title, Die Empty.
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  His point wasn't morbid, it was urgent.
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  The death rate is hovering right around 100%.
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  So the goal isn't to die comfortable or die impressive.
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  The goal is to die empty, to pour out every bit of what you
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  were given while your heart is still beating.
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  You're walking around right now with music still in you.
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  The question isn't whether you have it.
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  You do. The question is whether the
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  cemetery gets it or the world gets it.
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  In the graveyards quiet ground lie the songs that made no
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  sound, Books unwritten, dreams untold cures and courage left on
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  hold. Fear kept many from the start,
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  potential buried with the heart. So write the page, make the
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  call, start the thing. Take the imperfect first step
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  today because someday is just the address where dreams go to
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  be buried. The better story to tell
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  yourself is I'm going to die empty.
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  Tell me a story of someone you believe died empty to from
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  chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and tell
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  them the world needs what you've got.
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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.