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Cooperating #1208 · From Chad

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You can't whistle a Symphony. There's a story behind that.
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This is your daily message from Chad #1200 and eight to upgrade
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your 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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Rachel Carson. Before we get into the story, I
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wanted to mention something. I make these daily messages
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first. For me, I need to tell myself a
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better story every day. But I also believe giving is the
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highest level of living, so I'm thankful for technology that can
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easily share these messages with others.
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These daily messages are listened to thousands of times
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each month and 120 countries Now isn't that something?
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The second biggest audience behind the USA is Japan.
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I believe in these messages. They help me.
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I know I'll never stop needing to tell myself a better story.
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So, God willing, if I keep telling these daily stories,
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will you do me one favor and tell them to whatever that looks
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like? I just know I can't tell these
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stories alone. Here's the upgrade.
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You think you can go it alone, but upgraded thinking knows
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nothing exists alone. Here's the story. 2 old team
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mates run into each other at homecoming 25 years after
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graduation. Ted was an All American
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volleyball player who became one of the most powerful CE OS in
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the country. Joe was the captain of their
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undefeated team. Now Joe is a minister in town.
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Ted walks up and says Joe, I want to thank you for making me
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the success I am today. Joe just laughs, Stop pulling my
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leg. We haven't seen each other in
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years. It drove me crazy that the guys
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voted you captain and not me, Ted says.
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So before graduation I asked coach why.
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Coach told him, Ted, you're the best player I've ever coached.
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Joe doesn't have half your talent.
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You were the best player on the team, but Joe was the best
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player for the team. You want to be the best player
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in the country. Joe wanted us to be the best
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team in the country. Ted never forgot it.
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The old me wanted my company to be the best company in the
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world. Now I wanted to be the best
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company for the world. On versus for one little word, a
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whole different life. Stephen Covey called this the
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maturity continuum. We start out dependent.
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You take care of me, we grow into independence.
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I can do it myself. Most people stop there and call
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it success. But the top of the continuum is
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interdependence. We can do it together and do it
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better. Independence is a stage.
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It shouldn't be a place that you live, the conservationist Rachel
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Carson said. In nature, nothing exists alone.
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I think that's a first principle.
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Not a fish, not a leaf, not me, not you.
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Nobody made it through college alone.
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Nobody built a business alone. You didn't even change yourself
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by yourself. Somebody taught you to read.
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Somebody hired you. Somebody stayed up with you.
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Halford Lecock put it this way. No one can whistle a Symphony.
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It takes an orchestra to play it.
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Where are you on the maturity continuum?
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You can't opt out of the team. You can only choose how you play
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on it. The world gets worse when people
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get independent or worse, isolate.
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Nothing exists alone. You are part of an ecosystem,
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many ecosystems, in your home, at work, around town, in the
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world. The better story to tell
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yourself is I don't just play on the team, I play for the team.
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Your team might be your family, your office, your church, your
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neighborhood. Today.
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Ask what the team needs from you, not what you need from the
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team. Pick up your instrument and play
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your part. Tell me a story of someone who
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was the best player for a team you were on to from
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chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and tell
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them thanks for playing for the team.
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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.