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Timing #1157 · From Chad

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  26 years late and right on time, there's a story behind that.
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  This is your daily message from Chad #1157 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 Bob
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  Shepherd. You get a free copy of my book,
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  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 think it's too late. That upgraded thinking knows the
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  mind of love has his own timetable.
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  Here's the story. This month, Bob Shepard from
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  Long Beach, CA, walked out to his mailbox.
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  There was one piece of mail that day, a weathered postcard, soft
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  at the corners, like it had been handled by time itself.
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  He turned it over. The postmark on the front was
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  from Copenhagen, Denmark, dated July of the year 2000.
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  The message was short quote flying in.
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  We saw lots of water and green Greenland everywhere in quote
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  and it was signed M&D Mom and Dad, his parents, John and
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  Joanne. By the time the card reached
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  Bob's hand, both of them were gone.
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  His mother had passed about four years ago.
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  His father, an Army veteran, died six years ago during the
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  pandemic. And when the when the hospital
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  rules meant his son never got to say a proper goodbye, That one
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  still haunts him. He says his parents were
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  travellers. They went to Easter Island, the
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  Galapagos, Africa. He keeps a board on his wall
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  with their passport pages and their photos, a map of a life
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  well lived. And now, 26 years after they
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  dropped it in the mailbox in Denmark, one more piece arrived.
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  The likely explanation is ordinary.
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  The card slipped behind something in a postal facility,
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  fell out of a bin, got rediscovered decades later and
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  forwarded because Bob still lives at the same address.
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  But he didn't call it ordinary. He called it a treasure.
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  He called it almost a postcard from heaven.
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  That card was written before anyone knew what it would come
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  to mean. Just two travelers happy
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  describing Greenland out of an airplane window.
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  They had no idea they were writing something.
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  They're grieving, son would one day hold like a relic.
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  That's the thing about love you put into the world.
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  You never know when it lands. You never know what it will
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  weigh when it gets there. The better story to tell
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  yourself is nothing I send in love is ever late.
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  It arrives exactly when someone needs it.
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  So for you, your action is to send it the text you keep
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  meaning to send, the note in the card, the voice memo, the thing
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  written down so it can outlive the moment.
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  It was an ordinary Tuesday for the mail carrier who delivered
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  that postcard, but it was no ordinary day for Bob.
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  And your message may be received as a postcard from heaven, too.
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  Tell me a story of a message that arrived late but right on
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  time to from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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  Send someone a text right now and tell them thinking of you
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  today.