Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning and welcome to Friday.
Look at us, we made it,
we kept our heads down
during a week of unicorns
and binges and feng shui,
and now we're being
rewarded with a Friday
in the coming weekend.
But don't miss out, today is still
National Cheese
Fondue Day, so that's good.
It's also National
Cleanup Your Pantry Day,
and I should probably work on this.
You know, our kids keep finding food
in the pantry that's
expired, but it's still good
for at least another year or two, right?
Well, it's also
National Eight Track Tape Day,
which I hope this means there's a
National Cassette Tape Day
coming soon too,
because then I can pop in
my old deaf leopard, my
Huey Lewis, my quiet ride,
and Phil Collin tapes,
that would be awesome.
And lastly, it's National Pet Day.
So give some love to those little pets
whose only purpose is to
wake up every day and love us,
and to go to the
bathroom on our wood floors
and to leave hair all over the place.
But we'll just ignore that for today.
And in honor of the Masters Golf
Tournament this week,
our quote today comes from three-time
winner, Phil Mickelson,
who has some sage advice for us.
Phil said, quote, "Stay
positive and be happy.
"Work hard and don't give up hope.
"Be open to criticism and keep learning.
"Surround yourself with
happy, warm, and genuine people."
End quote.
Well, today's News Facts and
Birthdays are for April 11th.
And we're gonna start back in 1966,
when on this date, Frank Sinatra recorded
his popular song,
"Strangers in the Night,"
which later reached the number one spot
on the Billboard charts.
Then have you seen the movie "Apollo 13?"
If not, you should
definitely watch it, great movie.
But on this date, back in 1970,
the actual real life events
of the movie started in motion
when the Apollo 13 rocket
was launched from Cape Kennedy,
which is now Cape Canaveral in Florida.
And spoiler alert here,
although the mission was scheduled
to be the third lunar landing,
the Apollo 13 mission was aborted
after an oxygen tank
exploded en route to the moon.
Great movie.
Then in 2004, on this
date, Phil Mickelson,
he won his first major championship,
winning the Masters at Augusta National
after 12 years as a pro.
And happy birthday to you
if today's your birthday.
You share a birthday with model
Alessandra Ambrosio.
She's 44 today.
And the number one song
on this date back in 1998
was "All My Life" by Casey and JoJo.
This is one of the few R&B songs
that seems to have made
it to the number one spot
on the Billboard top 100.
And I loved this song when it was out.
I was a big R&B fan in
the nineties as well,
but this song was nominated
for a Grammy for best R&B song.
And it was written as a tribute
to JoJo's seven year old daughter.
Very sweet.
We love our daughters, don't we?
Love you, baby girl.
Okay, well, as you know,
we're reading through Stephen R. Covey's
"The Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People."
And in this first chapter, which is
entitled "Inside Out,"
Covey is discussing the differences
between character
traits and personality ethic.
And he is unpacking how our behaviors
are based on our
perspectives and our experiences,
our paradigms.
Yet if we want to improve
our lives in a material way
beyond just having a better attitude,
we need to adjust our
paradigms to change the foundation
from which our attitudes
and our behaviors flow.
Covey's next
sub-chapter is seeing and being,
and we are still in chapter one.
And Covey is quick to point out
that not all paradigm
shifts are instantaneous,
like the paradigm
shift on the subway example
from yesterday.
Well, in fact, most
paradigm shifts are slow,
like the one he had with his wife
and how they saw and treated their son,
which was a, quote, "slow, difficult,
and deliberate process," end quote.
And for years, Covey and his wife had
conditioned themselves
and their son to these topical
personality ethic tactics
that fed into their deeply held paradigms
of how they thought about
their own success as parents,
and also how they measured
the success of their children.
But it wasn't until they
identified and began to change,
quote, "those basic paradigms,"
until they saw things differently,
that they were able to create
a quantum change in ourselves
and in the situation, end quote.
Covey and his wife realized that in order
to see their son differently,
that the two of them had
to be different, quote,
"Our new paradigm was
created as we invested
in the growth and
development of our own character,"
end quote.
Okay, here is the meat and
potatoes of this sub-chapter.
Covey says, quote,
"Paradigms are
inseparable from character.
Being is seeing in the human dimension,
and what we see is highly
interrelated to what we are.
We can't go very far to change our seeing
without
simultaneously changing our being,"
and vice versa, end quote.
These paradigms are powerful.
They are the lens through
which we see, interpret,
and react to this world.
To shift a paradigm,
whether instantaneous
or slow and deliberate,
can set you up for
powerful quantum change.
So come back on Monday as we start
Covey's sub-chapter,
the principle-centered paradigm.
You're gonna love it.
He gets really deep into this,
and we start learning
about some of his principles.
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