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Persisting #1229 · From Chad

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  Some of the heaviest things you will carry will have nothing to
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  do with your work. There's a story behind that.
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  This is your daily message from Chad.
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  More 12129 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 Jamie Lynn Austell Smith.
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  Here's the upgrade. You may think a great goal.
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  Ask only for your hours and your effort.
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  Upgraded thinking knows you may also have to carry grief that
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  has nothing to do with the goal at all.
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  Here's the story. Isadora Sharp built Four Seasons
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  with limited capital and no hotel operating experience.
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  He had construction experience and outside backing, but not
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  much else. When he set out to build his
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  second hotel, a resort called in on the park, his earnings barely
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  covered his growing family's expenses.
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  He went ahead anyway, but the hardest thing he carried had
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  nothing to do with the financing of a hotel.
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  His son Chris was diagnosed with Melanoma as 17.
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  He died on March 10th, 1978. Chris was the only one of the
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  Sharp boys who wanted to join the family's business.
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  Sharp and his wife Rosalie made a decision about their other
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  children. In Sharp's words, Quote.
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  We decided to bear our burden but not put that burden on our
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  other children. In quote, he added, You never
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  forget. To this day I say a morning
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  prayer for my son. The business did not stop and
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  the business was not the source of the grief.
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  Years later, during an economic downturn of 1981, his finance
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  executive urged him to sell the company.
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  Sharp instead pledged all of his four season stock, knowing he
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  could lose everything. He was not building a safe life,
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  he was building a standard of excellence that The Four Seasons
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  was known for, and he kept building it while he carried the
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  loss. You will face losses you did not
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  schedule and did not 'cause you'll face weeks when the
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  numbers look fine and your heart does not.
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  The discipline is not pretending the weight isn't there.
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  The discipline is deciding which people still need you and then
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  taking the next honest step for them.
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  So the next time something heavy lands, don't ask how to make it
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  disappear before you're allowed to work.
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  Ask who still depends on you and the do one thing for them.
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  Today, there are all sorts of pain that must be endured in
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  business. Sometimes the worst pain isn't
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  coming from the business, but must be carried along with the
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  business. The better story to tell
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  yourself is it's not the weight, it's the way I carry it.
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  Sharp said. Excellence is the capacity to
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  take. Pain is a door.
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  Sharp kept building Despite that pain, and every morning he still
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  said the prayer. Tell me a story of carrying
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  something heavy to from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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  Send someone a text and ask them what is one thing you kept
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  building through a hard season. 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.