Good morning and
welcome to Morning Cereal.
Okay good morning and welcome to Tuesday.
And if your coffee hasn't kicked in yet,
well maybe your gut has
because today is go with
your gut day.
Now that's just a reminder to just trust
that inner compass you have.
But really only do that if your gut has a
history of good decisions.
Well today's quote is from Bruce
Springsteen who said quote,
"When it comes to luck, you
make your own."
And I'll just lay it out for you here.
Success is less about random chance and
it's more about being
proactive with your actions,
hard work, and strategic planning that
create your own opportunities.
Alright well today's news, facts, and
birthdays are for September 23rd.
We're going to start back 1806, that's
when Lewis and Clark,
they returned from St. Louis
from their trip.
Then in 1846 on this date, the planet
Neptune was discovered.
Then moving all the way up to 1957, the
song That'll Be the Day
by Buddy Holly and the
crickets, great band name by the way,
well it reached the number one spot.
And then finally on this date in 1962,
ABC's first color TV
series, which I kind of find
hard to believe but we're just going to
go with it, it was the Jetsons.
Well it premiered on this date, 1962.
You've met George right?
Well happy birthday to
you, today's your birthday.
You share a birthday with Marvel actor,
Falcon, Anthony Mackie, he's 46 today.
The boss himself, Bruce
Springsteen, he's 76 today.
Actor of old Mickey Rooney, he was born
on this date in 1920.
Role legend, Ray
Charles, born this date in 1930.
And good old Typhoid Mary, she was born
on this date in 1869.
You can look it up.
And now the number one song on this date
back in 1990 was
Release Me by Wilson Phillips.
Now this trio, they followed up their
smash debut single, Hold
On, with the Release Me
track and it became their
second Hot 100 number one.
Even though the song sounds a little bit
lighthearted, it's about
yearning for closure and freedom
from well a painful past in this case.
And speaking of letting
something go, people, we did it.
We finished Stephen R. Covey's The 7
Habits of Highly Effective People.
I didn't even let you know yesterday
because I didn't want you
to get caught in a downward
spiral.
But Covey's book, it's often described as
a guide not to quick
fixes but to principled
living.
Remember he frames the journey in terms
of moving from
dependence to independence to
interdependence, right?
It started off in the private victory
with Habit One, which was be proactive.
Covey emphasized between stimulus and
response, man has
freedom to choose, end quote.
And we're not bound by
circumstances, right?
We can decide our
actions and our attitudes.
That's where Habit Two came in.
Begin with the end in mind.
And it was asking us to imagine the
legacy that we want to
leave and to align our daily
choices with that vision.
Then we moved into Habit Three, which was
put first things first, right?
It's time management, redefined a little
bit, focusing on what is
important but not urgent,
right?
Such as
relationships, those are important.
Growth is important.
And long-term goals, okay?
Then we moved into the public victory,
which flows naturally
when you've mastered that
self-discipline, okay?
Habit Four, think win-win.
And it encourages abundance, believing
there's room for everybody to succeed.
Then Habit Five, seek first to
understand, then to be understood.
It's about listening with
empathy before speaking.
Then Habit Six, synergy builds on
differences, not in spite of them.
And as such, we can create results that
are greater than
individuals could have achieved
alone.
And then finally, we just finished up
Habit Seven, which was sharpen the saw.
And it ties everything
together this last habit.
Covey explains renewal across four
dimensions in that,
physical, mental, social, emotional,
and spiritual.
And Covey said, "We must never become too
busy sawing to take
time to sharpen the saw."
Now without balance,
effectiveness will dwindle.
The genius of this book was how habits
build on one another, from
self-mastery to collaboration
through renewal.
And Covey's final reminder was that
effectiveness, it isn't
about hacks, but about principles
that endure.
All right, here's
your last Covey takeaway.
Effectiveness isn't a one-time win.
It's a lifelong journey of growing from
self-mastery to meaningful
relationships that are renewed
daily.
All right.
So today, trust your gut and
take a step toward that dream.
Thank you for joining us
today on Morning Serial.
We'll see you back here tomorrow when we
start our next book.
It's called The Let
Them Theory by Mel Robbins.
We'll see you then.
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