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Ever since my family immigrated to the United States from Israel in 1956, I have felt a great sense of patriotism for the country.
Whenever I visit Washington, D.C., I am always moved by the history and symbolism of the nation’s capitol. That was the case on a recent visit to the area as I conducted a number of seminars.
The Capitol Building is one of those historical sites that is grand and enduring. Situated on a slight elevation, the Capitol Building is one mile away from the Washington Monument and 2.2 miles from the Lincoln Memorial.
The significance of the Capitol Building is that in 1791 the United States had no capitol. At that time, Congress met in eight different cities throughout the Northeast.
It was decided that there should be a 10 mile square area, either out of Virginia or out of Maryland, that would end up being the Capitol of the United States of America.
The portion that was chosen was the 10 mile square area in Maryland and the Capitol Building was begun. It was built and then it was burned down. It was then re-built and enlarged.
The message from the U.S. Capitol Building, for you and me, is that on one side is the Senate and on the other side is the House of Representatives. It’s just like our minds. There are two portions to our minds – the positive and the negative.
And, if we don’t watch the balance between the two, the negative side will naturally have more power. Because, for whatever reason, it’s easier to be negative.
All of us, including me, have to work at balancing just like the Congress has to balance power in the nation’s Capitol. We have to balance between the negative and the positive sides of our minds.
It doesn’t mean we disregard whatever is not going well in our lives. It’s just a matter of re-focusing toward the positive.
So, if you look at something that didn’t work out right in your life, how about using a line that says, “That may be so, but here is what I can do about it.”
What I’m saying is let’s work with a positive affirmation every day so that we can balance and move toward the positive more than we do toward the negative. Just like balancing the house of power in Washington.
Focusing on the positive. Now that is a capitol idea!
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A Balance Affirmation
I balance my mind and I focus on the positive
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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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