Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning
and welcome to Thursday.
Hey, let me ask you if
you know who Ken Carson is.
I think you likely do know who Ken Carson
is, but you may not
know that Carson was his
last name.
Well, I'll help you out.
Today is National Ken Day.
It's Barbie's Ken.
Ken Carson.
Well, anyways, he stood by Barbie's side
for 65 years now,
through all of their ups and
their downs.
Barbie seems to have had a new career
every time I turn
around, and that can't be easy
for Ken.
So happy Ken Day, Ken.
And to the other Ken's out there as well.
Well, it's also National Popcorn Lovers
Day, and my oldest
son will love that fact.
And it's also
National Good Samaritan Day.
So get out there and do some good.
Well, speaking of Barbie and strong
women, today's quote is
from another strong woman.
It's the icon Cher, who said, quote,
"Until you're ready to
look foolish, you'll never
have the possibility of
being great," end quote.
And you have to be willing to put
yourself out there,
sometimes even in an uncomfortable
way.
But by pushing yourself to do it bigger
and better, that is the
only way that you're going
to grow in your
personal and professional life.
All right.
Well, today's news facts and
birthdays are for March 13th.
On this date back in 1781, English
astronomer William Herschel, he
discovered the planet
Uranus.
He actually thought it was a comet,
perhaps, and he named it
after the father of the god
Saturn, Uranus.
Then on this date in 1877, American
Chester Greenwood, he
patented the earmuffs after
inventing them at the age of 15.
Then in 2004 on this date, Luciano
Pavarotti, he performed in
his final opera at the New
York Metropolitan Opera.
And then finally in 2012, a sad day, the
Encyclopedia Britannica announced that it
was ceasing publication
of its print version.
It was the oldest and the longest
continually published English language
general print encyclopedia.
Well, I guess it's one of those things
that we can add to the list
of items that our generation
can say, "Do you remember when we used to
do this or we used to have that?"
It's kind of fun to
reminisce on those nostalgic items.
Well, happy birthday to you.
If today is your birthday, you share a
birthday with JP
Morgan Bank CEO Jamie Dimon.
He's 69.
And actor William H. Macy.
He's 75.
Well, the number one movie on this date
back in 2004 was Passion of the Christ.
And I know Easter is not until late April
this year, but the
movie depicting the events
leading up to Easter in a very realistic
way, well, this was the
number one movie this week
back in 2004.
And at the time, it was the highest
grossing rated R movie of all time.
And interestingly, the actor that played
Jesus, he was literally
hit by lightning while
filming the scene of
The Sermon on the Mount.
Pretty crazy.
I remember hearing about it at the time.
And the number one song on this date back
in 1999 was Believe by Cher.
Now, the song Believe broke Cher's 25
year dry spell between
number one hits with her
last number one hit coming in
1974 with the song Dark Lady.
The song Believe has a dance pop sound to
it, and it helped usher in the new era of
auto tune.
And if you were one of my roommates back
in 1999, when this song
was number one, we would
have been in Fort Collins, Colorado, then
you probably woke up
to me way overplaying
this song every single morning.
My apologies, everybody.
But it was just so good.
And I did believe.
Well, I believe it's time to get you
prepared to move on to this Thursday.
And I'll do it with my takeaways from
chapter three of Dale
Carnegie's book, How to Win
Friends and Influence People.
And in this chapter entitled Talk About
Your Own Mistakes First,
Carnegie is not metaphorically
speaking here.
Carnegie is telling us to talk about our
mistakes first, finding
the right mixture of humility
and praise that together can, quote, work
veritable miracles in
human relations, end
quote.
And Carnegie continues by saying, quote,
admitting one's own mistakes, even when
one hasn't corrected
them, can help convince somebody to
change his or her behavior, end quote.
In life, inevitably, we have to have
difficult conversations and
the best leaders among us.
And whether it be in social situations
with your family or in
business, the best leaders
use Carnegie's principle number three,
which is to talk about
your own mistakes before
criticizing the other person.
Well, I hope you're not having to have
any difficult conversations today.
But if you do, just do your best and know
that it will be enough.
Did you see what I did there?
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