Good morning and
welcome to Morning Cereal.
Okay, good morning and
welcome to Wednesday.
It's hump day and you know
Mike is excited about that.
Well, if you weren't ready
for the midweek, too late.
It's Time's Up Day, which is a nudge to
stop procrastinating,
get things done, and mend
those fences you've been avoiding.
Not to worry though, you
can finish your coffee first.
I'll allow it.
Here is a little wisdom now from
everyone's homie, Patrick
Mahomes, who said, "Every
experience, good or bad,
you have to learn from."
So today's play, review,
adjust, and run it again.
This time smarter,
bigger, better, faster.
Alright, well today's news, facts, and
birthdays are for September 17th.
We're going to start back in 1787.
That's when the US Constitution was
signed by 39 delegates at the
Constitutional Convention
in Philadelphia.
Then moving all the way up to 1972,
renowned TV series, MASH.
Well, it debuted on CBS and it ran for 11
years, garnering 14
Emmy Awards and 1 Peabody.
Then in 1976, NASA unveiled its first
space shuttle, the Enterprise, in
Palmdale, California.
Then lastly, in 1983, Vanessa Williams
became the first black
Miss America at just 20 years
old.
Well, happy birthday to you.
Today is your birthday.
You share a birthday with your homie, my
homie, Patrick Mahomes.
He's 30 today.
And the Zen master himself, Phil Jackson.
He's 80 today.
Wait, what's this?
This was just handed to me.
It's also
International Country Music Day.
Well, I guess the new kids on the block
are just going to
have to wait another day.
In honor of International Country Music
Day, the number one song
on this date back in 1995
was, "I Like It, I
Love It" by Tim McGraw.
Now, this hard driving number one song
was the lead single from
McGraw's All I Want album,
which became his third number one on the
Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Now, it held that top
spot for five straight weeks.
And if you were in a line dancing bar in
1995 or any time 20 years after that, you
know this song well.
It's actually nice to have a
country song on here today.
I'm going to mix this in
a bit more moving forward.
Now, I know you're liking Kovey's habits
and you want some more of it.
So great timing because today we are
talking about the
sub-chapter Scripting Others.
In Stephen R. Kovey's, the seven habits
of highly effective people.
And in this section, Kovey asks, "What
part are you handing people to play?"
He argues that many of us unintentionally
hand out scripts,
labels, and expectations,
subtle cues that others then fulfill.
The renewal move is to write better
scripts, grounded in
principles and potential.
Here Kovey's story of a school class that
was scripted as "capable is famous."
When teachers were told falsely that
their students were high
IQ bloomers, those students
actually performed better over time.
Why?
Because the teachers'
expectations had changed for them.
More encouragement, richer
questions, extra patience.
Kovey's point here is, "Treat a man as he
is and he will remain as he is.
Treat him as he can and should be and he
will become as he can and should be."
The line he quotes
captures the leverage of belief.
But how do we do this without drifting
into flattery or pressure?
Kovey suggests specific,
character-based affirmations.
Notice integrity and initiative and
kindness over vague praise.
We also clarify roles
and goals collaboratively.
Then communicate trust.
"I believe you can handle this.
I am here to remove
obstacles, not to micromanage."
Accountability doesn't disappear here.
It shifts from policing to partnering.
When someone falls short,
the new script isn't "blame."
It's "What did we learn from this?"
Or "What's our next right step?"
What did we learn from this?
What's our next right step?
And Kovey warns against negative
scripting too, saying
things like, "That's just how
you are," or the "That's
just how you are" shrug.
Those right roles no one wants and
relationships no one enjoys.
Renewal shows up in tiny edits.
The benefit of the doubt question, the
second chance, the
check-in that treats people like
whole humans.
Families can do this at the dinner table
with "What was your
highest point of the day?"
"What was your lowest point of the day?"
Teams can do it in weeklies by
celebrating small wins
and naming values lived.
As with every habit seven dimension,
scripting others ties
back to self-mastery.
The scripts we write for ourselves set
the ceiling for the
ones we write for others.
For instance, if our self-talk is
principle-centered, courage,
respect, and growth will author
better pages for our
partners, our kids, and our coworkers.
Here is your hump day takeaway.
That rhymed.
I like that.
Hand people scripts that
assume growth and signal trust.
Most people rise to the
story they're invited to live.
Times Up Day is your cue.
Send the text.
Make the piece.
Write a better page for
yourself and someone else.
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