Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning
and welcome to Tuesday.
Well, I hope you made it
through April Fool's Day
without any major
stresses over any practical jokes
that were played on you.
You know, sometimes when
I'm preparing for this show,
I feel like someone's
playing a practical joke on me
with all of these national
days of this or that, right?
And April is chock full of them
and they have something for everyone.
Here's just a few of them for
this day of April 2nd, okay?
The first one, the day of hope.
Hope is good.
It's not a plan or a strategy, but in
general, hope is good.
International fact-checking day.
Does anyone even really
care about facts anymore?
Come on, people.
National PB&J day,
everybody can get behind that one.
National walking day.
Well, you know, not to
brag, but I walk every day
to my desk, to the bathroom,
to the refrigerator multiple times.
You get the picture.
And lastly, national ride
your horse to a bar day.
Now I'm down with this one.
I just need to borrow somebody's horse.
Well, today's quote is from
the character Obern Martel
and he said, quote,
"It's a big, beautiful world.
Most of us live and
die in the same corner
where we were born and
never get to see any of it.
I don't want to be
most of us," end quote.
Do you recognize that quote?
It's from Game of Thrones,
but I still think it applies to all of us
living in true Westeros.
Today's news facts and
birthdays are for April 2nd.
And we're gonna start back in 1939.
And that's when singer
Marvin Gaye, he was born.
Then jumping up to 1978 on this date,
the soap opera Dallas debuted as a
five-part mini series
on American television.
This TV show became a huge hit and I
never really watched it,
but I definitely do
remember my parents' generation
making sure we were
home in time for Dallas.
But I still don't know who shot JR.
And then moving all the way up to 1995,
that's when on this
date, the longest strike
in American Major League sports history,
which is 232 days long,
ended as the MLB owners
accepted the players
offer to return to work
without a contract.
The MLB was the first
major pro sports league
to lose an entire
post-season due to a labor dispute.
Well, happy birthday to you.
If today is your
birthday, you share a birthday
with actor Pedro Pascal,
who played Oberyn Martel
in Game of Thrones and he stars in the
Mandalorian as well.
He turns 50 today.
This is the way.
And the number one song
on this date back in 1987
was "Lean on Me" by Club N'Voe.
And this song won a
Grammy for the best R&B song,
and it probably has one
of the most recognizable
six beat intro of any song.
But this was a remake of
Bill Withers' original song
from 1972 with that same timeless beat
and with the lyrics that
we all need at times, right?
When we need a friend
to lean on, great songs.
Well, it's time for some personal growth
in our book review segment.
And today we're starting a new book.
We finished "How to Win
Friends and Influence People"
yesterday, and we've been on that book
for over three months now.
So I'm excited to start
a new book with you guys.
Here is the new book
that we are reviewing.
It's Stephen R. Covey's,
"The Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People."
So to give you a bit of a roadmap,
this book, similar to our last book,
is set up in four different parts
with part one entitled
"Paradigms and Principles."
And the final three parts each
have specific habits
associated with them,
each of those being Covey's seven habits
of highly effective people.
Now, just before we begin,
I read through the quotes and
the blurbs on the back cover
and inside the book from the leaders
that have read this book.
And they are all very
similar to this quote
by Anthony Robbins, who is
the author of "Unlimited Power."
And he said,
"Fundamentals are the key to success.
Stephen Covey is a
master of them by his book,
but most importantly, use it."
He says to use it,
implement these habits
into your everyday life.
And that is also what
Carnegie's philosophy
is required of us as well,
to use them to transform
how we live and interact.
Lastly, today, I wanted to
know just a little bit more
about the author of Stephen Covey,
and I'll share that
with you here just briefly,
so that we know who
we're learning from here.
Covey, he graduated with a degree in
business administration
from the University of Utah.
We won't hold that against him.
Then he earned his PhD in
religious education from BYU.
We won't hold that against him either.
And throughout his life,
he received 10 other honorary doctorates.
And he wrote many books on leadership.
And in 1996, Time
Magazine actually named him
one of the 25 most influential people.
Now, the book we are
set to read is number five
on the all-time most books sold list
for self-improvement books,
and over 25 million copies sold.
Well, tomorrow we're
gonna get into chapter one,
but I'll send you on
your way with this quote
that hovers just above the first
paragraph of the book
where Covey quotes David
Starr Jordan, who said,
"There is no real
excellence in all this world
which can be
separated from right living."
End quote.
Sometimes all we can hope for
is to live right in the end.
Well, live right today, people.
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