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Circling #1131 · From Chad

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  He walked around the world without ever leaving home.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chad #1131 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 Russell Mumper.
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  Here's the upgrade. You think a great accomplishment
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  needs a big audience, but upgraded.
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  He knows the biggest finish lines are crossed quietly.
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  Here's the story. Russell Mumper is VP for
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  Research at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
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  On June 25th of this year, Russell finished walking around
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  the world. He didn't cross an ocean.
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  He didn't stamp a passport. He walked out his front door
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  almost every day for nearly 14 years. 5 miles a day, give or
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  take. Through job changes, through a
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  move between states, through weather.
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  They gave him every excuse to stay inside.
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  The numbers are staggering. 55,000,000 steps, nearly 6000
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  walks. 49 pairs of worn out trail shoes.
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  Enough hills along the way to climb up and down Mount Everest
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  46 times. Add it all up and you get 24,901
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  miles, the circumference of the earth.
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  Now here's the part I can't stop thinking about.
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  When Ferdinand Magellan's crew circled the globe, they got a
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  place in the history books. When astronauts orbit the Earth,
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  we watched the launch on live television.
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  When Russell Mumford finished going around the world, there
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  was no ribbon, no press conference, no medal finished in
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  his driveway. His family was there, his dogs
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  were there. That was the whole crowd. 14
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  years of work in the finish line was the crack in his own
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  pavement. And I think that's exactly
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  right, because the walk was never for an audience.
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  Nobody claps for mile 11,000. Nobody cheers for walk #4217 on
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  a great Tuesday in February. For 14 years, the only witness
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  to most of those miles was the man walking them.
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  And that's true of your biggest accomplishments to the marriage
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  you keep choosing, the kids you keep showing up for the skill
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  you keep sharpening, the health you keep protecting.
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  No one is watching. No one is clapping.
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  And it counts anyway. The world tells you if there's
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  no audience, there's no achievement.
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  Upgraded thinking knows the opposite.
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  The achievements that matter most are the ones you'd still
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  chase if no one ever found out. The better story to tell
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  yourself is I hit the pavement every day and log today's steps.
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  Take one lap today that nobody sees.
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  Tell me a story of something you accomplished quietly to from
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  chad.smith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask them
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  What have you been working at for years that nobody claps for?
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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.