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Channeling Stress into Success: like to go into a little background

about myself: what I have gone
through and how I have used these
things as positive infl uences in my
The Therapeutics of Tinkering builds.
Every morning, when I eat
breakfast, I see a little piece of
wood with some words painted on
it and a random cupboard handle
mounted on it. Okay, so what am I
PHOTOS AND WORDS BY LUKE MERRILL (TINMAN 2 KUSTOMS) talking about? The words written
on it say “To be the Best, you must
be able to HANDLE the Worst.”
This is important and infl uential
because it reminds me every day
that the best things in life don’t
always come unscathed; there are
issues that each of us face and have
to overcome to become the best
possible versions of ourselves.

Currently I am busy

spending 14 hours a
day prepping for my
SEMA 2017 showing with
“Wild-Torquey” and

my bagged c10.

Currently I am busy spending
14 hours a day prepping for my
SEMA 2017 showing with “Wild-
Torquey” and my bagged c10. It’s
a huge accomplishment to get this
large of a “rat-rod” style rig into
such a prestigious show, so I am
taking my preparations extremely
seriously. This has caused excessive
stress. I have not been able to get
my mind off of it, at all, the last two
months. As I am writing this, it’s
only a couple days before I need to
leave for Vegas; however, I decided

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