Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning
and welcome to Tuesday.
Well, I've got this good
buddy, Matt, Matt Damon,
and he's quoted as saying, quote,
"It's better to be yourself than to try
and be some other version
of what you think the
other person wants," end quote.
Ah, Matt, opening up our Tuesday,
reminding us to stay
authentic to ourselves.
Don't try and be something you're not.
People will see right through it anyway,
and even more so today,
because today is National Debunking Day.
You may not know this, but
in today's fast-paced world,
it's easy for
information to be misconstrued
and lost in falsities.
Some heavy sarcasm there for you people,
but National Debunking Day is intended
to help us gain a little more clarity
to some of the myths and the
false news we hear every day.
And if that's just a
little too heavy for you,
today is also National Dream Day.
So maybe just lay on your
back and stare up at the clouds.
By the way, we all did this as kids,
and I'd highly recommend doing it again.
It's actually pretty
grounding and very relaxing.
Also, people, it's National
Organize Your Home Office Day.
So good luck with that,
or just put it off another year.
Well, today's news facts and birthdays
are from March 11th.
We're gonna start way back in 1302,
and according to Shakespeare,
on this date is when
Romeo and Juliet were married.
Then skipping all the way up to 1978,
Meatloaf's "Bad Out of Hell" album
began a 416-week run on the UK chart.
Then in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev,
he became the leader of the Soviet Union.
In 2008, on this
date, Madonna was inducted
into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Then in 2020, on this date,
the World Health Organization declared
that the COVID-19
outbreak was indeed a pandemic.
Well, happy birthday to you.
Today's your birthday.
You share a birthday with the new Mavs
player, Anthony Davis.
He's 32 today.
And singer Lisa Loeb, she's 57.
Well, the number one movie
on this date back in 2000
was "Mission to Mars."
And I picked this movie actually
because I thought this was the movie
that my good friend Matt
Damon starred in, "The Martian."
And apparently, "Mission to
Mars" is not "The Martian."
And "The Martian," it's a great movie,
but "Mission to Mars," I haven't seen.
But apparently, there's
a very similar plot here
about the first manned mission to Mars.
And surprise, things go wrong.
And presto, you have a rescue mission
and a number one movie back
in 2000 about going to Mars.
Well, the number one song in 1994,
I know this one very well.
The number one song in 1994 was "The
Sign" by Ace of Bass.
This is a song I
definitely rocked in high school,
primarily because the song
had some pretty nice bass beats in it.
You may recall back in the 90s,
we put outlandishly sized
speakers in the back of our cars
in order to basically
just destroy our hearing
later in life.
But again, I digress.
Back to the song, "The Sign."
What was the sign, you ask?
Well, apparently in the music video,
it showed the sign as an Egyptian ankh,
which symbolizes life.
So there you have it.
Well, it's Tuesday, so I'm
gonna send you on your way today
with my takeaways from
chapter one of part four
of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends
and Influence People."
Now, have you ever been to the dentist
to have a cavity filled?
Lucky you, if you haven't.
Well, at the dentist,
they will give you novocaine
prior to drilling into your teeth, right?
And this is how Carnegie suggests leaders
approach finding fault in someone else.
No, he's not suggesting
giving them novocaine,
but Carnegie does say, quote,
"It is always easier to
listen to unpleasant things
"after we have heard some
praise of our good points,"
end quote.
So Carnegie's principle number one in
part four of his book
in a chapter that's entitled,
"If You Must Find Fault,
This Is The Way to Begin."
So principle number one is,
"Begin with praise and
honest appreciation."
Hey, thanks for joining us today.
And remember, be
yourself and enjoy some time
just staring up at the clouds.
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