Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning and welcome to Friday.
You made it again and
who would have guessed it?
Well last Friday I called everyone a
quitter because it was
National Quitters Day and well done
I haven't heard that anyone has quit just
yet. But if you're
just hanging on good news
Apparently we're a nation of quitters
because not only are we quitting our
current president next week
Today is National Ditch
Your New Year's resolution day
I mean, how many days do we need to tempt
us to quit our New Year's
resolutions? Stay strong people
You can do it
And if you do quit today is National Day
of Judgment. So there's that
Actually the Day of Judgment
is not the return of Christ
Its intent is a fun holiday that reminds
us that we are our own best judges
And we don't have to wait until the end
of time to realize our rights and wrongs
All you have to do on Judgment Day is
simply take a glance in the
mirror and be your own judge
Judgment Day is intended to remind us to
be kind and do good
and on that positive note
Let's go ahead and jump right into
today's episode with
today's quotes one fun
Nostalgic quote and then a second quote
to tease our book review
later in the episode as usual
I hope one of these quotes will speak to
you and kickstart your
day in a positive direction
All right. Here's the first quote. It's
from funny man Jim Carrey
He said I think everyone should get rich
and famous and do everything they ever
dreamed of so they can see that
It's not the answer in quote if you've
ever seen any interviews with Jim Carrey
He's actually a very intellectual
individual and he seems to have a lot of
insight into human nature
But we've all heard although money does
make life easier at times and it does buy
some really fun toys
True happiness comes from within and it
doesn't require fame and riches
Okay, our teaser quote for the book
review today is a show of interest as
with every other
principle of human relations
must be sincere
Okay, as usual will unpack that here in
just a few minutes
during the book review segment
But first let's jump into our usual dose
of fun and historic facts
from this day in history
today's news facts
are for January 17th in
1773 captain James Cook became the first
to cross the Antarctic Circle in
1917 the United States purchased three of
the Virgin Islands st.
Thomas st. John and st.
Roy they purchased them from Denmark for
just 25 million dollars in
1929 the cartoon character Popeye the
sailor man who loved his spinach
He made his debut appearing in the
newspaper comic strips in
1966 NBC greenlit the
TV show the monkeys in
1981 heavy metal history was made when
bass guitarist Nikki six left the band
London to begin rehearsals
with drummer Tommy Lee and
singer guitarist Greg Leon
effectively marking the
beginning of Motley Crue in
1984 the Supreme Court
ruled five to four that
Private use of home VCRs to tape TV
programs for later viewing did not
violate federal copyright laws
Well, that's a weight off my back so we
can all hang on to those
VHS's without any worry in
1995 the Los Angeles Rams announced that
they were leaving to move to st. Louis
after 49 years in SoCal
Subsequently as we all know the Rams
moved back to SoCal in 2016
Okay, let's go ahead and move on to
birthdays. Happy birthday. If today is
your birthday you share a
birthday with a lot of people
First up Benjamin Franklin
was born on this date in 1706
Al Capone was born in 1899
James Earl Jones. He was
born in 1931 on this date
Betty White she was born
in 1922 and Muhammad Ali in
1942 and people that are having birthdays
today as well that are still with us our
kid rock. He's 53 Jim. Kerry
He's 63 Michelle Obama. She's 61 and
Dwayne Wade. He's still a youngin at 43
now to the music and the movies of the
80s 90s and 2000s the
number one movie on this date in
1978 was Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever was a huge box
office success raking in
over 200 million dollars
Thanks to John Travolta's popularity in
the incredible soundtrack
Remember John Travolta was on welcome
back caught or TV show at that time great
intro song by the way and
Saturday Night Fever was released as a
double Travolta feature
along with the movie grease
Now the soundtrack was the number one
selling soundtrack of all time from 1977
1977 to 1992 when the bodyguard
soundtrack with Whitney Houston's I will
always love you remake
That knocked it down into second place
Those two are still number one and two on
the all-time list of soundtracks Greece
by the way is number five and
the number one song on this date in
1988 was so emotional by Whitney Houston
and it was Houston's sixth consecutive
number one single which
put her in a three-way tie
With the Beatles and the Bee Gees and
broke the most consecutive number one
singles by a solo artist
Which was previously held by Elvis?
Well, I'm getting emotional just thinking
about all the personal growth that's
coming up in the book review segment
So let's just jump into the book review
segment of morning cereal
As you all know this is where we take a
few moments to reflect on the lessons
learned from the current book
We're reading and currently we're reading
through Dale Carnegie's how to win
friends and influence people
It's a timeless book that is consistently
on all the must-read lists and it's
packed with rock-solid advice and actions
For us all to use and build healthy
foundational concepts to live by
now yesterday we continued part to
chapter 1 entitled do this and you'll be
welcome anywhere and
Carnegie is walking us through the
importance of taking a real
Genuine interest in people and not just
the people that we all
think can be beneficial
But taking interest in
all people that we encounter
taking real interest in other people and
they will in turn they will
take real interest in you and
Yesterday Carnegie illustrated that the
time and effort we take to be thoughtful
towards others doesn't have
to always be some grand gesture
But even small acts can have huge impacts
Carnegie next tells a story about a
gentleman that was trying to sell fuel
unsuccessfully for years to
a large gas station chain and
The gentleman had over the years
developed a very bad attitude and held a
grudge towards the chain and he often
spoke quote hot wrath
Upon the chain stores because they were
purchasing fuel from an out-of-town
dealer and then driving
right by his front door
Well Carnegie had invited this successful
businessman to speak to his class where
he stood in front of the class
Just tearing apart the gas station chain
and Carnegie says quote and still he
wondered why he
couldn't sell them in quote
Carnegie then suggested to the
businessman that maybe he should take a
different approach and Carnegie suggested
that they stage a debate in his class
On whether the gas station chain was
doing more harm than good
Where the gentleman the businessman would
be taking the position to defend the
tactics of the large gas
stations purchasing strategy
So again, the gentleman went to the
executives of the gas station chain, but
this time he said he
wasn't trying to sell them fuel
He said he came to them for the facts
that he needed to win the
debate with Carnegie's class
He asked for exactly one minute of the
executives time and it was with that
expectation that they
agreed to meet with him
The gentleman was not there for personal
gain or to ask for a contract
He showed up with genuine interest and
just hearing about the
company and how it worked
Well, instead of getting just one minute
the executive gave him almost two hours
They called in other executives that had
written books on chain stores and the
executive of the chain store really
showed to the gentleman
That he believed his stores were
providing quote a
real service to humanity
In quote and the gentleman
said of the executive quote
He is proud of what he's doing for the
hundreds of communities his eyes fairly
glowed as he talked in quote
Now the businessman said that the
discussion had opened his eyes and
completely changed the way he viewed the
situation and changed his whole
mental attitude towards the chain stores
The two men were able to personally
connect over the meeting and the
executive asked him to stop back by
So he could hear how the debate came out
and you probably guessed it
But the executive also said to come back
and visit him in the spring as he'd like
to place an order with the businessman
And the businessman is quoted here as
saying quote to me.
That was almost a miracle
Here he was offering to buy fuel without
me even suggesting it
I had made more headway in two hours by
becoming genuinely
interested in him and his problems
Then I could have made him ten years
trying to get him interested
in me and my product in quote
Take interest in others and they will
take interest in you, right?
And Carnegie says here that the gentleman
didn't discover something new that day
That the benefits of taking genuine
interest in others has been around for
millennia a Roman poet said a hundred
years before Christ was born
Quote we are interested in others when
they are interested in us in quote
I'll quote from Carnegie here once more
as he again stresses that
the interest must be genuine
He says quote a show of interest as with
every other principle of
human relation must be sincere
It must pay off not only for the person
showing interest but for the person
receiving the attention
It is a two-way street
both parties benefit in quote
And
Carnegie closes out this chapter by
saying quote if you want others to like
you if you want to develop real
Friendships if you want to help others at
the same time as you help yourself
Keep this principle in mind in quote
Okay, we have finished chapter one of
part two and here is Carnegie's first
principle in part two
This is the principle. He says to keep in
mind to develop real relationships
And you may have guessed it but principle
number one is become
genuinely interested in other people
Nice job over the weekend
Be sure to keep it top of mind when you
were talking to people to slow down for a
moment and take a real
Interest in what they are saying and
where they are at in their lives
I think you'll see right away the
benefits and the relationships this type
of genuine interest can build
Congrats on making it to Friday and the
weekend is nearly upon us
Go out there and make some friends today
and this weekend show
some interest in others
And then be sure to join us again on
Monday as we start chapter 2 of part 2
and that's entitled a
Simple way to make a good first
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