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And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning and welcome to Friday.
Look at you, making it all the way to the
best day of the week.
Friday at the end of a month no less?
That means it's likely a payday Friday,
which are one of the
best kinds of Fridays that there are.
Well, you can use that new cash liquidity
event to buy a ticket
to the circus. Today is National Barnum
and Bailey Day. Or perhaps
buy a hot tub. Today is also
National Hot Tub Day. But if your budget
is calling for something a
little easier to swallow,
how about buying something on a stick?
Today is National Eat
Something on a Stick Day.
Here are some ideas. Corn dogs, kebabs,
anything on a skewer, tater
tot skewers, hot dog skewers,
shrimp skewers, pineapple shrimp skewers,
lemon shrimp skewers,
pepper shrimp skewers. That's
about it. Oh, ice cream on a stick. One
of my favorites. Well,
today's quote is from the
character Bubba Blue from Forrest Gump.
And Bubba said this, quote,
"I don't know if we each have a
destiny or if we're all just floating
around accidental like on
a breeze, but I think maybe
it's both." End quote. Now that's a very
thoughtful philosophical insight by
someone obsessed with
shrimp. Are our lives predetermined or
simply random? Destiny or
chance? Well, tune in tomorrow
and I'll answer that one in detail. Well,
today's news facts and
birthdays are from March 28th.
And we're going to start back in 1963.
That's when Alfred
Hitchcock's movie The Birds,
it was released and this movie used to
freak me out. I still don't
look at crows the same way.
Then jumping up to 1979, you might
remember there was a
partial meltdown at the Three Mile
Island nuclear plant in the United
States. And that
resulted in radioactive leakage.
You know, I thought I heard Doritos
caused that too. Well, finally, if you
were settling in for
some TV on a Friday night this same week
back in 1990, and browsing
the TV guide as we did back
then, you would have shows to choose from
like Full House, Family
Matters, Perfect Strangers,
The Magic of David Copperfield, Baywatch
and Dallas. Man, doesn't
it seem like just yesterday
we're all just watching those classics?
Well, happy birthday to
you. Today is your birthday.
You share a birthday with singer Lady
Gaga. She turns 39 today.
Actress Julia Stiles, she's 44.
Actor Vince Vaughn, he's 55 today. Singer
Reba McIntyre, she's 70.
And former basketball player
Rick Berry, he's 80 today. And
interestingly, I met Rick
Berry in fifth grade when for some
reason he visited my elementary school in
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
I don't remember much about
that other than I thought he was very
tall. And when somebody
asked him just how tall he was,
he said, I am five feet 19 inches tall.
Well, I'll let you do
the math on that one.
Moving on to movies and songs. The number
one movie on this date in
1996 was Up Close and Personal.
Now this is a film starring Robert
Redford and Michelle
Pfeiffer. And interestingly,
the critical acclaim surrounding the
movie was really around the
original theme song for the
movie. And that theme song was Because
You Loved Me, which was sang by none
other than the brilliant,
brilliant Celine Dion, which brings us to
the number one song on
this day. Also in 1996,
it was Because You Loved Me by Celine
Dion. Now she won the Grammy Award for
the best song written
for a motion picture for this song. And
you know, I love my Celine Dion and I
love this song as well.
And so does Billboard Magazine because
Billboard ranked Because You
Loved Me as the 14th top love
song of all time. Well, I'm a sucker for
a good love song, but I'm
also a sucker for some self
improvement to get us going on this
Friday and headed into a weekend in the
right frame of mind.
So here are my takeaways from chapter
seven of part four of Dale
Carnegie's How to Win Friends
and Influence People. And in this
chapter, which is entitled Give a Dog a
Good Name, Carnegie has
been talking about giving people a
reputation or a virtue to live up to. And
in doing so, most people
will step up to that challenge to live up
to this characteristic
that you've assigned them,
even if it's a stretch, rather than let
you down or even now let
themselves down. Well, Carnegie
gives a few illustrations and here are
some of the one-liners where someone
assigned a characteristic
or a reputation that in the end, it
encouraged the other person to some
positive end. Here are a few
of them. "You do not know what treasures
are within you." And the
next one is, "You are always
willing to listen and are big enough to
change your mind when the
facts warrant a change."
And the last example here is, "I
understand you are a natural leader. I'm
going to depend on you."
Well, each one of these comments gave
another person something to live up to.
And more often than not, most people will
give it their best
effort to do just that.
Now, obviously, this works in the home,
in social situations, and
in professional settings. So,
here it is. In a chapter entitled Give a
Dog a Good Name, Carnegie's
principle number seven is,
"Give the other person a fine reputation
to live up to." Well, join
us again on Monday for chapter
eight, which is entitled, "Make the Fault
Seem Easy to Correct" and Learn
Carnegie's Principle
Number Eight. Well, thanks for joining us
today. Have a great weekend
getting all of those spring
cleaning chores done
and have a fantastic day.
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