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While on a recent trip to Washington, D.C., where I did a series of seminars, I visited the Jefferson Memorial.
This amazing memorial is in honor of an amazing man who was instrumental in the birth of the United States of America.
Thomas Jefferson was well known for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. He also sponsored the Lewis and Clark Expedition that found the Northwest Passage. He did some amazing things.
The reason I want to talk about Thomas Jefferson is the fact that he authored The Declaration of Independence. I think we each need to author our own Declaration of Independence.
Some of us, during these trying times, whether it be financial challenges or maybe there are health challenges, have become prone to worry – a little too much worry.
My feeling is that stress is the number one killer in this country. If we can get control of worry, I think that might help us a lot to be able to open our eyes to opportunities and to improve our situation.
Dale Carnegie wrote a wonderful book called “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”. In it he said that we must live in day tight compartments.
Consider as if you were living in a room with a door behind you and one in front of you. The door behind you is to yesterday and it is locked permanently. The door ahead of you is to tomorrow and it does not open up until midnight tonight.
So, all we’ve got is today – this very room. And, if you’re worried about something, then write down what is the worst that could happen. Just write down what is the worst that could happen.
Then write down what you would do to improve on that if it did happen. Then you’ll realize that you’ve got a solution. Carnegie said that, by just writing it down and looking at it, that will help you to relax.
Again, he said to live in day tight compartments. The question is: “What can I do about it today?”
May I suggest that you now use Carnegie’s idea and declare your own independence from worry. I believe that the following affirmation, stated out loud the first thing every morning and the last thing each night, for at least 30 days, will help.
If you were totally confident about your life and your future, would you worry about anything?
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A Stress-Reducing Affirmation
I am very confident about my life and my future
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You and I Need to Feel Important
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A memory from many years ago came back the other day when I was in Washington, D.C., doing a series of seminars.
I went by the NBC Studios, WRC Television, on Nebraska Avenue, in the northern part of the District. I wanted to share with you what happened there in 1966, when I was 19 years old.
My family had immigrated from Israel in 1956. Ten years after that, when I had just graduated from high school, I was very patriotic. I wanted to come to Washington, see the nation’s Capitol, and meet the congressmen and senators from my state of Oklahoma.
I had worked in a small radio station outside of Tulsa during June and July in that summer of 1966 and that was the money I used to travel to Washington.
I wasn’t old enough to rent a car, so I rented a moped to get around the Capitol. Can you imagine riding around Washington in a moped? It was a lot of fun.
So, I rode my moped up to WRC Television, the NBC station in Washington. I wanted to meet a certain broadcaster that worked there. I parked my moped outside the door of the station and told the receptionist: “I’ve come all the way from Oklahoma to meet _______.”
She obviously saw my mode of transportation and may have felt sorry for me. She said, “Wait just a moment.” She walked down the hall, came back a couple of minutes later, and said: “Follow me.”
So, I followed her and we went down the hall into a big studio. The gentleman I wanted to meet was just concluding his nationwide broadcast. As he finished, he came over to us and the receptionist spoke with him for a moment.
He then came over to me and said, “I understand you’ve come all the way from Oklahoma to meet me.” I said, “Yes, I have and I am honored.” He suggested we go down to his office.
As we walked that way, there was a glass partition. Right behind the glass there was a man sitting at a desk. He said, “That man will be famous one day.” That man was Willard Scott.
We went down to the gentleman’s office and I will never forget the fact that he spent 45 minutes talking with me and making me feel important. That gentleman was David Brinkley of the Huntley-Brinkley Report, the NBC Nightly News program that was the top evening newscast in the nation in the 60′s.
When David Brinkley passed away I was so sad because I will never forget how he was to me in 1966 in Washington, D.C. By the way, on his office door he had a sign that read: “The Brinkley-Huntley Report”. I thought that was so funny.
The point here is: What can you and I do to make someone feel important? Everyone wants to feel important. David Brinkley made me feel important when I was 19 years old and I will never forget it.
We all have 4 initials on our forehead: MMFI. Those stand for Make Me Feel Important.
What kind of good feelings can we broadcast to make someone else feel important today?
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A Feel Important Affirmation
I make other people feel important.
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