Good morning and
welcome to Morning Serial.
Okay good morning and welcome to Tuesday.
Well I hope you enjoyed that nice long
holiday weekend celebrating Labor Day.
Now we and my family we spent the long
weekend in Austin
watching our boys play soccer.
It's back to it today on a short work
week and what better way to start the
week with today being
National Live Fearless Day. Right? It's
the perfect excuse to stare down that
thing you've been avoiding.
Today is the day. It's about embracing
boldness and living your next move with
guts not hesitation.
All right so in honor of fearless living
our quote today is from
someone that well he knows kung fu.
Keanu Reeves he said quote if you have
been brutally broken but still have the
courage to be gentle
to other living beings then you're a
badass with a heart of an angel.
End quote. Now I agree with Keanu that
quote it just reminds us that
fearlessness it isn't about
never breaking it's about how you rise up
afterwards. All right
well today's news facts
and birthdays are for September 2nd.
Welcome to September. We're
going to start back in 1666.
That's when the great fire of London
began at 2 a.m. on Pudding Lane when 80
percent of London was
destroyed by the fire. Then on this day
in 1789 the United States Treasury
Department was established
laying the financial foundation for our
new republic. Then
finally in 2013 64-year-old
Diana Naiad here she is right here looks
like she's talking about
swimming if you're watching
this on video but she became the first
person to swim from Cuba to Florida
without the use of a
shark cage for protection. Now it's good
to know that other people
did this swim but they used a
shark cage for protection. How scary is
that? Well she completed a
110 mile swim from Havana to Key
West through the jellyfish and shark
infested waters of the
Straits of Florida and she did it
in about 53 hours. All right well happy
birthday to you if today is your
birthday. You share a
birthday with actress Selma Hayek. She's
59 today. Retired boxer Linux
Lewis he's 60 today and actor
known for that quiet grit and he does
know kung fu Keanu Reeves
he's 61 today. And lastly Eric
Dickerson Hall of Fame and a feller he's
65. And now the number one
song on this date back in 1987
was I Want to Dance with Somebody Who
Loves Me by Whitney Houston.
Now this is an infectious dance
pop anthem and it captured hearts
worldwide. Well it topped out the
Billboard Hot 100 and earned
Whitney multiple Grammy wins and it's
still the most streamed
wedding song ever appearing in over
a quarter almost a quarter 24 percent of
Spotify wedding playlists.
All right well also high on
playlists or reading lists I guess.
Kofi's The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People and today
we are exploring Kobi's sub chapter
Fishing for Third Alternative. And in
this section Kobi is
introducing the idea of moving beyond
compromise or competition into creative
resolution. Kobi writes
"when two parties feel blocked between
choice A or B synergy then
invites choice C." Now that C
is not a middle ground concession. The
idea here is for that C to be a fresh
solution born out of
collaboration. Now Kobi illustrates this
with stories where leaders
step into collective dialogue
not to negotiate half-loves but to
uncover entirely new bread
if you will. And Kobi states
"the third alternative is not my way or
your way it's our way." And
that mind shift transforms
conflict into innovation and he
emphasizes that finding this requires
humility and openness.
"To fish for the third alternative you
must enter the situation with curiosity
not your agenda." And
that means listening fully asking
thoughtful questions and
holding off on judgment all things
that we've been learning throughout this
book. Now this what might
seem like a radical approach it
respects differences and it invites
insights that neither party
originally thought possible.
Kobi notes "when people feel safe to be
heard their creativity
emerges" and that safety it builds
trust and paves the way for breakthrough
ideas. All right here's
your takeaway instead of half
solutions or stale compromise fishing for
a third alternative
unlocks creativity and shared
ownership. But this only works if we
enter conversations with
curiosity and leave our egos
at the door. So today live fearless and
rise to the occasion and
even more good news is the fact
that there's only four days left in this
work week. Thank you three
day weekends. Well thanks for
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