Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning
and welcome to Thursday,
affectionately known as
Friday Eve as we all know.
And if you're feeling a
little bit frisky today,
today is National Fashion Revolution Day.
So go crazy with that wardrobe today.
Today is also Love Your Thighs Day.
You know, I guess they just
kind of picked a body part,
but today is just about
promoting body positivity.
So we'll go with thighs, I guess.
And lastly, it's appropriate
that today is also Scream Day
because get ready, all you Gen X ladies.
Today is National New
Kids on the Block Day.
Now, I'll admit they had some great songs
and the old men on the block,
they have a Vegas residency this summer.
So if you'd like to see
them do their dance moves
in a slightly slower motion
while singing your favorite NKOTB songs,
head on out to Vegas.
Well, our quote today comes from someone
who also has had some great songs.
It's from Kelly Clarkson
and she's talking
about perseverance here.
Kelly Clarkson said,
"My experiences remind me
that it's those black clouds
that make the blue
skies even more beautiful."
End quote.
So keep your chin up people,
the sun will come out again, eventually.
Well, today's news, facts and
birthdays are for April 24th.
And we're gonna start
way back today in 1184 BC.
Now we've all heard this story
and we've watched movies about it.
This is the date that the
Greeks entered the city of Troy
hiding in the
infamous wooden Trojan horse.
Then we're gonna skip up a
few thousand years to 2007,
when on this date,
the most awarded female
recording artist of all time,
Whitney Houston, she divorced R&B singer
and songwriter Bobby Brown.
Apparently they had some
irreconcilable differences
after 14 years of marriage.
And then lastly, in 2023,
just a couple of years ago,
India surpassed China as the
world's most populous country.
According to UN estimates,
they now have over 1.425
billion people in India.
China has 1.41 billion people.
That's a difference of
just over 14 million people.
So just to compare,
the United States only
has 340 million people.
We're over a billion behind both of them.
Well, happy birthday to you
if your birthday is today.
You share a birthday with
singer actress Barbara Streisand,
she's 83 today, and
entertainer Kelly Clarkson,
she's 43 today.
And the number one song
on this date back in 1991
was "You're In Love" by Wilson Phillips.
Now, if you don't remember
the band Wilson Phillips,
it was made up of three women,
and they sang just the
most wholesome love songs
you can imagine, right?
"You're In Love" was no different.
It was their third and
their final number one hit,
and it earned a Grammy nomination
for best pop vocal by duo or a group.
Well, let's jump into some
wholesome self-improvement
with our book review segment.
And as you know, we are
reading Stephen R. Covey's
"The Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People."
And yesterday we began
Covey's second chapter,
"The Seven Habits," an overview.
And this is where Covey
discussed how important
and influential habits are in our lives.
They essentially make up
what makes us either effective
or ineffective.
And Covey defined habits
yesterday for us as, quote,
"The intersection of knowledge, skill,
and desire," end quote.
Covey says that we
have to have all three,
knowledge, skill, and desire
to make something a habit in our lives.
Now Covey acknowledges it's
gonna take a tremendous effort
to change these deeply
embedded habitual tendencies,
just like procrastination,
impatience, criticalness,
or selfishness.
These are all habits
that are hard to change,
but in doing so, they will
reap real change and freedom.
So today we begin our next sub-chapter,
which is called "The Maturity Continuum."
And Covey is telling us that the seven
habits in this book,
they are not, quote, "Separate or
piecemeal psych-up formulas,"
end quote.
Instead, these habits were, quote,
"In harmony with the
natural laws of growth,
providing incremental sequential
and a highly integrated approach
to the development of personal
and interpersonal
effectiveness," end quote.
As such, Covey says the
habits move and grow progressively
on a maturity continuum, quote,
"From dependence to independence to
interdependence," end quote.
So our natural growth
and maturing takes us
from the dependence to
independence to interdependence.
And we start as
babies dependent on others
for nearly everything we do.
Then as we grow older, we
learn to become more independent,
quote, physically, mentally, emotionally,
and financially, end quote.
And this growth and
newfound independence,
it should lead toward each
of us to become more, quote,
"Interdirected and
self-reliant," end quote.
Then Covey says if we
continue to grow and mature, quote,
"We become increasingly aware
that all of nature is
interdependent," end quote.
And that like nature's
natural system of interdependence,
this also applies to society and, quote,
"That human life also is
interdependent," end quote.
So back to the maturity continuum,
dependence,
independence, and interdependence.
Covey says that dependence is, quote,
"The paradigm of you.
You take care of me.
You come through for me.
You didn't come through for me.
I blame you for the results," end quote.
While independence is the
paradigm of I, I can do it.
I am responsible.
I am self-reliant.
I can choose, end quote.
And finally today,
interdependence is the, quote,
"Paradigm of we."
We can do it.
We can cooperate.
We can combine our talents and abilities
and create something
greater together, end quote.
Well, nice work hanging in there.
A lot of definitions today,
but tomorrow we're gonna
dig in a little bit deeper
into these dependencies with Covey.
And we're still gonna be in the maturity
continuum subchapter,
so come back for that.
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Okay, good morning and welcome to
Thursday if you're feeling a little bit
frisky today, so we'll go with thighs
I guess are you Gen X ladies the old men
on the block that Kelly Clarkson said my
Experiences remind me that it's those
black clouds that make the blue skies
even more beautiful the infamous
wooden Trojan horse
We're over a billion behind both of them
the number one song in this date back in
1991 was you're in
love by Wilson Phillips
Our Cove is the seven habits of highly
effective people the habits move and grow
Progressively on a maturity continuum
that all of nature is interdependent
dependence independence and
Interdependence we'll see you back here
tomorrow on a Friday.
Have a fantastic day