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Good morning, and welcome to Morning Cereal!
Pull up a stool, grab your favorite cereal, and let’s kick-start your day with a spoonful of inspiration, nostalgia and personal growth. Join your host, Shaen Inglis, as he highlights the music, movies, and moments that made the 80s, 90s, and 2000s unforgettable—kind of like digging for toy at the bottom of the cereal box. Each episode, Shaen also reviews a chapter or so from top wellness books, offering practical insights to help you set a positive tone for your day. Start your mornings right—no cartoons required!
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Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning and welcome to the
best work day of the week. It's Friday
and today is national
Just do it day. So you have no excuses to
do whatever it is. You just need to do
It's also national compliment day and the
power of a compliment
is pretty remarkable
Either giving or receiving one can boost
your happiness and your confidence
It makes the act a win-win you never know
when someone else could use some good
vibes. So just do it
Give someone a compliment
Let's go ahead and just jump straight
into Friday's quotes one fun
Nostalgic quote and then a second quote
to tease our book
review later in the episode
Hopefully one of these quotes will speak
to you and kickstart your
day in a positive direction
The first quote is from former Apple CEO
Steve Jobs and he said
quote your time is limited
So don't waste it living someone else's
life. Don't be trapped by dogma
Which is living with the
results of other people's thinking
don't let the noise of others opinions
drown out your own inner voice and
Most important have the courage to follow
your heart and intuition
They somehow already know
what you truly want to become
Everything else is secondary. That's well
said. I don't even have
anything else to add to that
So we'll just go ahead and jump straight
in today's teaser quote from the book
review and this quote is
referring to a gentleman
That will hear more about in the story
But it says quote he discovered the
astounding importance
people place on their own name
End quote as usual will unpack that here
in just a minute during
the book review segment
But first let's jump into our usual dose
of fun and historic facts
from this day in history
Okay, today's news facts
are for January 24th in
1848 carpenter James Wilson Marshall
He found some nuggets of gold in
California's American River near the side
of a sawmill that he was building
Well, the discovery ushered in the gold
rush as some three hundred thousand
people traveled to California
in 1899 the rubber heel for boots or
shoes was patented by the American
Humphrey O'Sullivan of
interest to a lot of our listeners in
1935 on this day is when the first canned
beer was sold by an American company
Kruger Brewing Company. It was called
Kruger's cream ale first canned beer in
1984 Steve Jobs introduced Apple's a
revolutionary computer Macintosh
That was two days after the
groundbreaking commercial in 1984 aired
before a national TV audience
Which heralded the
products and pending release in?
1989 American serial killer Ted Bundy who
confessed to murdering 30 women though a
lot of people believe
that number to be much
Higher he was executed at the age of 42
not related but in
2003 the US Department of Homeland
Security came into being as Tom Ridge was
sworn in as the
agency's first secretary in
2008 Amy Winehouse was admitted into
rehab in a battle to kick
her addiction to drugs in
2004 the six-wheeled robotic rover
opportunity landed on Mars on this day
Like its twin rover spirit, which had
landed on January 3rd
They both analyzed rocks and soils and
relay pictures back to
earth. Okay moving on to birthdays
Happy birthday. If today's your birthday
you share birthday with the late John
Belushi. He was born in
Footballer or soccer player Luis Suarez
now of inter Miami stardom.
He's 38 and Neil Diamond is 83
Okay now to the music in the movies of
the 80s 90s and 2000s the
number one song on this date in
1985 was like a virgin by Madonna
Interestingly Madonna did not write the
lyrics to this iconic song
They were written by two men Billy
Steinberg and Tom Kelly and Kelly
actually sang the demo of the song
Apparently Steinberg wrote the song for a
male singer and it was about coping with
the end of a relationship
and the start of a new one
But they weren't sure if they should use
the word virgin which was considered
controversial in 1984
But once in Madonna's hands
well
we all kind of know how that turned out
but she liked the word virgin because she
liked the innuendo and the irony and the
different levels that it spoke to and the
rest is as they say history as like a
virgin spent six weeks at number one and
Madonna's performance at the inaugural
MTV Video Music Awards is considered a
defining moment in pop culture and
The number one movie on this date in
1988 was Good Morning Vietnam
Now this movie is based on the life of
Adrian Cronin a DJ who hosted an Armed
Forces radio show in
Saigon during the Vietnam
War and his part was played by Robin
Williams who was said that he had
ad-libbed all of the radio
DJ scenes in the movie and
Robin Williams went on to win the Academy
Award the Golden Globe and
the Grammy for his performance
Okay, let's move into our personal growth
segment here on the morning cereal
this is where we take a few moments to
reflect on the lessons learned from the
current book we're reading and
Currently as you all know, we're reading
through Dale Carnegie's how to win
friends and influence people
it's a timeless book that is consistently
on all the must-read lists and it's
packed with rock-solid advice and
Actions for us all to use and build
healthy foundational concepts to live by
Yesterday we finished chapter 2 of part 2
entitled a simple way to
make a good first impression
And it's as simple and as we learned as
powerful as starting off with an
authentic heartwarming smile
Have a good time when you meet people and
your enthusiasm and
positivity will shine through
Carnegie's principle number 2 is super
simple but super
powerful and can change our mood
You can change other people's moods and
it can change lives in the long run
Principle number 2 is simply smile
Okay, we're making really good progress
in the book and we're
starting chapter 3 of part 2 today
which is entitled if you don't do this
you are headed for trouble and
Carnegie starts this chapter with a quick
attention-grabbing story about a town
that's preparing for a funeral of an
unfortunate death of a child and
as the story goes Jim Farley senior was
getting the horses ready
to take to the funeral and
Sadly, he was kicked and killed by the
horse. So two deaths
and two sentences. I know
Hope you had your coffee this morning
Well, Jim Farley left behind a wife and
three kids and his oldest boy who was
also named Jim Farley
Was only 10 years old when he essentially
became the man of the house
now young Jim dropped out of school and
went to work making bricks and
Young Jim Farley never
received much schooling
But he had a natural geniality and a
flair to make people like him and an
uncanny ability to
remember people's names
So he eventually went into politics and
although he never went
to high school by the time
He was 46 years old four colleges had
given him honorary degrees and Farley had
become chair of the
National Democratic Committee and
Postmaster general of the United States
Carnegie interviewed Jim Farley and asked
him what the secret to his success was
and Farley said quote hard work
To which Carnegie
replied quote don't be funny
I understand this because you can call
10,000 people by their
first names in quote and
What did Farley say back to this? He said
quote. No, you were wrong. I can call
50,000 people by
their first names in quote
Carnegie says quote make no mistake about
it. This ability helped
Mr. Farley put Franklin D Roosevelt into
the White House when he managed
Roosevelt's campaign in 1932 in quote
Farley had developed a system for
remembering people's names
when Farley met someone new
He learned their complete
name and then in his mind
He built a picture of their
name along with some facts
He would learn about them their family
their business and
their political opinions
And when Farley next met this person he
could recall their name and
inquire about their family, etc
So Carnegie says of Farley quote that he
discovered early in life that the average
person is more interested in his or her
own name than in all the other names on
earth put together in quote and
By remembering someone's name and
recalling it easily is a subtle yet very
effective complement
On the other hand by forgetting or
misspelling someone else's name could be
viewed negatively and diminish your image
Similarly if someone has an especially
difficult name to pronounce instead of
just using a nickname
Actually taking the time to learn how to
say it can also build real goodwill
Here Dale Carnegie calls again on Andrew
Carnegie and in addition to Andrew
Carnegie's flair for organization and
genius for leadership
By the time he was 10 years old
He had also quote discovered the
astounding importance people place on
their own name in quote
Our author Dale Carnegie tells a few
stories of how Andrew
Carnegie when he was a kid
named rabbits after kids who would help
him feed his rabbits and
As a businessman Andrew Carnegie named a
huge steel mill after the president of
the Pennsylvania Railroad
And who do you think they
bought their steel from?
Yes, Carnegie and another time Carnegie
suggested a merger of one of his
companies with competitor and
Carnegie suggested using his competitor's
name for the name of the new company
and it was known that Andrew Carnegie
took pride in knowing the names of the
workers in his steel mills and
Consequently none of Carnegie's mills
ever went under a labor strike
I think we're starting to see where our
author is taking us here
People want to hear you use their name
and it builds goodwill
with them when you do so
Although I wish he would give us a few
more tricks to learn names because I know
that is something I am just not great
At however, it seems I may need to double
down on developing this skill
Believe it or not tomorrow
We'll actually finish up chapter 3 of
part 2 if you don't do this
Then you're headed for trouble. So be
sure to come back tomorrow for Carnegie's
principle number three of six ways to
make people like you
Well, I hope your Friday is off to a
great start warm someone else's day today
with a smile and a compliment
You can do it. And if you're Friday or
your week's been difficult. Just remember
you're doing a great job
Just keep swimming have a fantastic day
and a great weekend. We'll
see you back here on Monday
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Thanks again for listening.
Have a fantastic day and
we'll see you tomorrow.