In March, 2018, the university of Virginia, which is where I went to college became the first number one seed. To lose to a number 16 seed and the March madness, college basketball tournament. If you don't follow sports, just know. That this is bad. Very bad. And I was crushed of course, being a UVA grad.

After watching a Ted talk. UVA is basketball. Coach Tony Bennett decided to use that historic loss to his team's benefit. Over the next year, rather than shying away from talking about the loss, the players and coaches instead talked about it as much as possible. And each time they talked about it, the team talked about what they learned from the loss.

What coach Bennett learned from watching the TEDx talk? Was that when you tell the story about something bad, that's happened. You're not telling the story to change what happened. You're telling the story to change you. When something happens to you, it sits on top of you. Like a rock. And if you never tell the story, it sits on you forever.

But as you begin to tell the story you climb out from under that rock, and eventually you sit up on top The story doesn't change what happened? But the story has the remarkable power to completely change our whole relationship to what happened. Well, it worked for UVA's basketball team. They faced their story, that historic loss in March, 2018. And when the March madness tournament rolled around in 2019, they won the championship.

They climbed out from under the rock of the historic loss and sat on top of it with that championship. So this week think about an adversity you've gone through and face your story. I'm scott colby was say it with gratitude and this has been the daily gratitude minute cheers