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Tuning #1148 · From Chad

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  All you have to do is tune into what's around you.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  chat #1148 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 Bill Magnuson.
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  You get a free copy of my book, The Most Powerful Story in the
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  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.
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  Here's the upgrade. You may think generosity starts
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  with your wallet, but upgraded thinking knows it starts with
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  your ear tuning into the gift already sitting in front of you
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  and then investing in it. Here's the story.
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  A tuner spends his life listening for the note.
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  That's almost right. Close but not true, and his job
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  is to bring it into pitch, to take something with potential
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  and make it ring the way it was built, to ring Bill Magnuson
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  tunes pianos. But one day he tuned into a
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  little boy. The boy is Jude Kofi.
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  He's autistic, and he taught himself to play on a forgotten
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  keyboard in the in the basement of his family home.
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  No lessons. He had never played before in
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  his life when his father Isaiah walked in and heard him and
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  stopped him in his tracks. Bill later called what Jude does
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  Mozart level, coming from somewhere beyond the whole world
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  heard a nice news story. Bill heard something else He
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  heard a gift that was close but not yet true.
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  A rare talent playing on the wrong instrument in the wrong
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  room with nobody bringing it into pitch.
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  So he did what a tuner does. He didn't know the family.
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  He took a meaningful piece of his own inheritance, though, and
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  put a $15,000 grand piano at their door, plus lifetime tuning
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  in lessons. No conditions, no strings
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  attached. He just invested in the note he
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  heard. CBS updated a segment a few days
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  ago from the original story. Now, six years later, Judas 14,
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  he's recorded his debut album. He tours, he's played
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  internationally. Build it and create the gift.
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  He takes no credit for it. He just tuned into it.
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  And then he got behind him. He said, quote, I just bought a
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  piano and that's all I did. All the rest of this stuff is
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  God. It's not me.
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  End Quote. Isaiah said for somebody to just
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  love your son like that by making sure his future is
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  secured, we're super thankful. I'm not doing the story justice.
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  You should really find a video on it.
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  But the better story to tell yourself is I need to tune into
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  the gift in front of me and then invest in it.
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  You can choose to tune things out or tune into them.
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  You're surrounded by notes that are close but not true.
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  A gift in someone near you playing quietly in the basement,
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  waiting on one person with the ear to hear it and the will to
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  invest. Most people walk past.
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  A tuner leans in. You may be the person who's
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  called to tune into the gift of someone special you've come
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  across. Tell me a story of a gift you
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  tuned into at from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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  Send someone a text and tell them I hear what you're capable
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  of. Keep up the good work.