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When faced by difficulties, many people figuratively bend and break under the pressure. A few people seem to dig in their heals, hang on tight, find ways to resolve their problems, and they survive. Some ever thrive in the midst of difficulties.
Whenever I have flow out of the Burbank, California, airport for speaking engagements across the country, I’ve always driven by a certain park on the way to that airport.
There is something very unique about that park. I would always notice that many of the trees were bent over as if strong winds, over time, kept pushing them over.
However, in looking around the park, I didn’t notice any tree stumps. Apparently the trees in this particular park, had developed strong and deep roots, the type that would serve them well in the face of strong winds.
The other day I make it a point to go to that park and take a walk around.
The name of the park is Griffith Park, named either after or before the world-famous Griffith Observatory, which is on the top of the hill to the south.
The park is large and welcoming. There are equestrian trails where, on many occasions, people on horseback can be seen along its trails. There are also people having picnics, people walking their dogs, and others just enjoying the peaceful atmosphere.
Nearby, in the Burbank area, are some of the major television and radio studios of the country. Among them are Warner Brothers, Disney, ABC, and NBC.
But the main point that strikes me about Griffith Park is all of the leaning trees. There is a correlation between them and the goals and habits of our lives.
If we follow bad or destructive habits, we will never create strong roots that will help us in difficult times. Being overweight and not eating healthy foods, can figuratively cause our lives to fall down at some point. Just like a tree in a strong wind without deep roots.
Not being wise with our money, overspending, and not having a monthly budget can do the same thing.
Perpetuating habits such as smoking and drinking to excess can do the same thing. My sister, who smoked all her life, died from Emphysema and heart failure.
Not letting the people we love the most know how much we love them on a regular basis, can also put stress on the branches of our relationships.
May I suggest, if you do not have strong, positive roots in these directions, that you take a hit from the trees in Griffith Park. Write down three habits that you would like to improve and then write positive affirmations as if they were already achieved.
Read those affirmations the first thing each morning and the last thing each night, for at least 30 days, and watch what happens. I believe you will then get to the “root” of your great future success.
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An Affirmation of Positive Habits
I am identifying the positive habits that I need in my life and affirming them every day.
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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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