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Something #1205 · From Chad

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  At least he did something. There's a story behind that.
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  This is your daily message from Chad #12105 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
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  Lanie Tashik. Here's the upgrade.
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  You tell yourself to do nothing because you can't do everything
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  that upgraded. Thinking understands something
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  is always better than nothing. Here's the story.
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  In 1977, Terry Fox was 18 years old when bone cancer took his
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  right leg. Three years later, in the spring
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  of 1980, he was standing at St. John's, NL, with his prosthetic
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  leg dipping into the Atlantic Ocean.
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  His plan To run across Canada? A marathon a day.
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  To raise money for Cancer Research.
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  A marathon a day. Here's what motivational speaker
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  Michael Spence said. If you want to hide something
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  from the average person, put it behind a great challenge.
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  If you want to hide something from the average person, put it
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  behind a great challenge. This wasn't a great challenge.
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  It was an absurd challenge. Most people never attempt a
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  marathon on 2 good legs, let alone a marathon a day for
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  almost 6 months. And he was attempting a marathon
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  a day on one leg Zig Ziglar said the greatest of all mistakes is
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  to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
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  Fox didn't start with marathons after the amputation.
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  He started with short, painful training runs.
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  Cancer patient learning to run on a prosthetic leg, doing only
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  what he could do on a given day. A little repeated daily.
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  Well, 5373 kilometers later, 3338 miles in 143 days.
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  But he never finished. The cancer came back and moved
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  to his lungs and stopped him outside Thunder Bay ON.
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  He died the next year at 22, but he didn't have to finish because
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  others picked up where he left off.
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  The annual Terry Fox Run, held every year on the second Sunday
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  after Labor Day, has raised over a billion dollars for Cancer
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  Research since 1981. In fact, the 46th annual event
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  was held a few weeks ago on September 20th.
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  All because a guy challenged himself to do something most
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  couldn't imagine attempting. The better story to tell
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  yourself is I don't start by doing it all, I start by doing
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  what I can today. And this message is a companion
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  to number 794 on pain because this is where pain becomes
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  purpose. Tell me a story of what you did
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  today with what you had to work with.
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  Send it to from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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  Send someone a text and tell them something is better than
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  nothing. You can get a free copy of my
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  book, The Most Powerful Story in the World, at 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.