Good morning and
welcome to Morning Serial.
Okay, good morning and welcome to Friday
and welcome back to the studio.
I'm sad to say that
we're back in the studio now.
For those of you that were joining us
this last week and a half
or so, we've been coming
to you from on location from
a trip to the Mediterranean.
I got to tell you, it was incredible.
Save your pennies, save your dollars as
much as you can to get
over there, to see that
history, to see the things that we've
learned about with our actual eyes.
Totally worth it.
So hopefully you got to live a little bit
vicariously through me
during that time, but
we're just so thankful that
we had the ability to do that.
And speaking of being thankful, our quote
today is from Matt
LeBlanc, who said, "The
more you're thankful, the more you
attract things to be thankful for."
And it's a solid
reminder to focus on gratitude.
Many of the little things we can be
thankful for are
overshadowed by waiting on those big
ones.
All right, well, today's news, facts, and
birthdays are for July 25th.
And we're going to start back in 1946.
And that's when Dean Martin and Jerry
Lewis, they staged their
first show as a comedy team.
Then in 1965, Bob Dylan went electric at
the Newport Folk Festival.
All right, he shocked the crowd that was
appalled at his use of something as
brazen as an electric
guitar.
Well, moving up to 1984, that's when
Soviet cosmonaut
Svetlana Svetvedskaya, I don't
know, became the first
woman to walk in space.
And then lastly, in the year 2000, on
this date, the Concord Jet.
Well, it crashed shortly after takeoff
from Paris and it grounded
that legendary supersonic
aircraft.
I actually saw one of those fly by in
Colorado Springs,
lots of air bases there.
So got to see some pretty neat things.
Well, happy birthday to you.
If today is your birthday, you share a
birthday with the man who
provided our quote today
and one of our favorite
friends, Matt LeBlanc.
He's 57 today.
Actress from Golden Girls,
she would have been 101 today.
Estelle Getty and the late Walter Payton.
He was born on this date in 1954.
Well, the number one song on this date
back in 1988 was Hold On
to the Nights by Richard
Marx.
Now this swoonie power ballad, it became
his first chart topping
single in the US and it
sealed his spot as a late
80s and 90s slow dance legend.
Now I know this song was definitely on
the playlist at my high school dances.
Well, let's finish up an incredible week
with a little self growth.
Here during our book segment, we're still
reading Stephen R.
Covey's The Seven Habits
of Highly Effective People.
And today we're diving into the final
part of habit three,
which is entitled The Habits
of Interdependence.
So we start this off by remembering that
Covey explains that
maturity is moving from dependence
to interdependence and then to
interdependence, right?
While personal effectiveness is a great
start, long term success
in life, leadership and
relationships, it's about collaboration
and mutual benefit of everybody.
So Covey challenges the
Lone Ranger mindset, okay?
Saying quote, "Independent people who do
not have the maturity to
think and act interdependently,
they may be good individual producers,
but they won't be good
leaders or team players,"
end quote.
Interdependence doesn't mean
giving up your individuality.
It means leveraging it to connect and
create synergy with others.
And Covey introduces this idea, not just
as a nice to have, but
as the foundation for
habits four, five and six.
Win-win thinking, empathetic listening
and creative cooperation.
So Covey emphasizes that these aren't
just business tools,
they're life principles.
So to move from independence to
interdependence, we must
focus on three core traits, okay?
Those are self-awareness,
imagination and conscience, right?
These give us the power to choose how we
respond to others and how
we build bridges between
personal success and shared achievements.
All right, as Covey puts it, quote, "We
are not our feelings.
We are not our mood.
We are not even our thoughts," end quote.
We are the force that chooses how to act,
especially in relationship to others.
All right, here's your takeaway.
Becoming truly effective means stepping
beyond your own success
and lifting others in the
process.
It's not about being
the smartest in the room.
It's about creating a
room where everyone thrives.
All right, whether you're back to the
grind after a trip of a
lifetime in the Mediterranean
or you're just celebrating that you made
it to another Friday, okay?
Take a minute to reflect on who helped
you get through the week.
Thank them and then thank yourself.
All right, I'll start by thanking you for
joining Morning Serial this week.
While we were shooting on location and we
didn't have the best
video, we didn't have
the best audio, but you still tuned in.
So thank you for that.
I hope you enjoyed the sights and the
sounds of the Mediterranean.
Probably not nearly as much as we did,
but I still hope you
could live a bit vicariously
for the week.
Well, enjoy the weekend.
You've earned it.
And until then, have a fantastic day.
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