Good morning and
welcome to Morning Serial.
Okay, good morning
and welcome to Tuesday.
Hey, grab your hoverboards everybody
because it's national
Back to the Future Day.
Well, great Scott.
This is the day fans celebrate Marty
McFly's trip all the
way back I guess to 2015.
That's where we were supposed to have
self-tying shoes, hoverboards, flying
cars we were supposed
to have.
Well, I guess that part is still to come,
but let's go ahead
and just pair that with
something that we definitely do have.
Today is also National Apple Day.
And I guess the only question here is are
you a red apple or
green apple kind of person?
Either way, nostalgia and a snack.
Well, sticking with the Back to the
Future theme, it was
good old Doc Brown who said,
"Your future hasn't been written yet.
No one's future has been written yet.
Your future is whatever you make it, so
you should make it a good one."
And it's true, your
destiny, it's not predetermined.
You have the power to shape your future
through your choices,
through your actions and your
attitude.
All right, well, today's news facts and
birthdays are for October 21st.
Looking back in 1980, the Philadelphia
Phillies, they won their
first world championship on
this date in their 98
year history at the time.
Well, they won their
second one back in 2008.
Then in 1985, Back to the Future, the
movie, well, it topped
the US box office, grossing
over $380 million worldwide.
And youngsters, if you haven't seen this
movie, it's a classic must watch.
Go watch it.
And finally, in 1991, coincidence or not,
that's when Apple
introduced their PowerBook
100 and it was the first real laptop.
Look how thin that
thing was, very portable.
Well, happy birthday to you
if today is your birthday.
You share with country and
music singer, Kane Brown.
He's just 32 today.
Entrepreneur, I guess we'll call her, and
TV person, Kim
Kardashian, she's 45 today.
But TV judge and queen of common sense,
Judge Judy, she's 82 today.
And actress, writer, and forever our
princess Leia, the late
Carrie Fisher, she was born
on this date in 1956.
Well, the number one song on this date
back in 1991 was Praying
for Time by George Michael.
And this is a soulful anthem about
compassion and change.
And it was George's last US number one as
a solo artist and one of his most thought
provoking tracks back in a time when
music still had that kind of depth.
This song's dark themes, well, they
talked about greed and hypocrisy.
Great song and sounds like it might still
be pretty relevant today.
Well, also relevant today is the book we
are reviewing in our
book review, Mel Robbins,
The Let Them Theory.
And today we begin chapter four, which is
entitled, Let Them Stress You Out.
Robbins opens this
chapter with a provocative idea.
What if stress isn't the enemy?
What if it's just an
invitation to let go of control?
She writes, quote,
people don't stress you out.
Your reaction to people does, end quote.
So by embracing the let them theory, you
realize that much of your
tension comes from trying
to rewrite others stories.
And Mel shares examples of daily
interactions like a boss's
tone, a friend's lateness,
or a partner's mood and how we
internalize them as
personal attacks against us.
But they're not about us.
Robbins says, quote, let
them have their moment.
You keep yours, end quote.
And it's a reminder that we can coexist
with this chaos without
actually absorbing it.
So psychologically, when you stop fueling
negative thought
loops, your cortisol levels
actually drop and your
clarity can then begin to return.
So letting go isn't apathy.
It's emotional intelligence.
Stress then becomes a data point for us.
It's not a doom, right?
Not all doom and gloom.
So Mel encourages you to pause and
breathe and then ask,
quote, is this mine to carry,
end quote.
So when you release the urge to control
every interaction that
you have, life then flows
with more grace and less grip to it.
Freedom starts where
micromanagement ends.
Okay, here is your Tuesday takeaway.
Stress doesn't come from people.
It comes from your need to control them.
Let them be and peace will find you.
So today, channel your inner Marty McPhee
and don't get stuck in the past.
Choose to take charge of your future.
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