On This Day
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.[11]
Charles XIV John (Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; born Jean Bernadotte;[1] 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death. In modern Norwegian lists of kings he is called Charles III John (Norwegian: Karl III Johan). He was the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty.
Born in Pau in southern France, Bernadotte joined the French Royal Army in 1780. Following the outbreak of the French Revolution, he exhibited great military talent, rapidly rising through the ranks, and was made a brigadier general by 1794. He served with distinction in Italy and Germany, and was briefly Minister of War. His relationship with Napoleon was turbulent; nevertheless, Napoleon named him a Marshal of the Empire on the proclamation of the French Empire. Bernadotte played a significant role in the French victory at Austerlitz, and was made Prince of Pontecorvo as a reward. Bernadotte was, through marriage to Désirée Clary, brother-in-law to Joseph Bonaparte, and thus a member of the extended Imperial family.
In 1810, Bernadotte was unexpectedly elected the heir-presumptive (Crown Prince) to the childless King Charles XIII of Sweden, thanks to the advocacy of Baron Carl Otto Mörner, a Swedish courtier and obscure member of the Riksdag of the Estates.[2] He assumed the name Charles John and was named regent, and generalissimo of the Swedish Armed Forces, soon after his arrival becoming de facto head of state for most of his time as Crown Prince. In 1813, following the sudden unprovoked French invasion of Swedish Pomerania, Crown Prince Charles John was instrumental in the creation of the Sixth Coalition by allying with Tsar Alexander and using Swedish diplomacy to bring warring Russia and Britain together in alliance.[3][4] He then authored the Trachenberg Plan, the war winning Allied campaign plan, and commanded the Allied Army of the North that defeated two concerted French attempts to capture Berlin and made the decisive attack on the last day of the catastrophic French defeat at Leipzig.
After the War of the Sixth Coalition, Charles John forced King Frederick VI of Denmark to cede Norway to Sweden, leading to the Swedish–Norwegian War of 1814 where Norway was defeated after a single summer’s conflict. This put Norway into a union with Sweden, which lasted for almost a century before being peacefully dissolved in 1905. The Swedish–Norwegian war is credited as Sweden’s last direct conflict and war.[5]
Upon the death of Charles XIII in 1818, Charles John ascended to the thrones. He presided over a period of peace and prosperity, and reigned until his death in 1844.
Born On This Day
1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Church, Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers (d. 1899)
Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 26, 1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers.[1] One of his most famous quotes was “Faith makes all things possible… Love makes all things easy.” Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism, working first in the Civil War with Union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian Commission. In Chicago, he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation, which is still active. Working with singer Ira Sankey, he toured the country and the British Isles, drawing large crowds with a dynamic speaking style.
1840 – Hiram Maxim, American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916)
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun.[1] Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. Maxim laid claim to inventing the lightbulb.[2][3]
Maxim experimented with powered flight; his large aircraft designs were never successful. He designed a highly successful amusement ride called the “Captive Flying Machine” to fund his research while generating public interest in flight.[4][5]
Maxim moved from the United States to the United Kingdom at the age of 41, and remained an American citizen until he became a naturalised British subject in 1899, and received a knighthood in 1901.[6][7]
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Mastering The Magic Word
The Magic Word is a spoken word record by Earl Nightingale that sold over a million copies.
As Earl explained, experts call the magic word the most important word as far as the results we get in life are concerned.
And that word is attitude.
What I’ve learned about attitude has allowed me to sail through life, moving from one success to another. And when I fail at something or run into a roadblock, I harvest the good, learn from the experience, and keep moving forward.
Why It’s Called the Magic Word
Your attitude works like magic because it is a two-edged sword…
It either brings you the success you seek or, if misused, a life of disappointment.
You would think that anything that packs this much power would be a subject that is taught from a young age. And yet, it’s not. So, if you ask any ten people you meet what attitude means, you will probably get ten different answers.
So, what is attitude?
Attitude is the composite of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Ultimately, the thoughts you choose and the way you feel are displayed by your body through your actions and behavior.
Here’s a closer look at how it works:
Attitude is a creative cycle that begins in your conscious mind with your choice of thoughts. Whether you believe it or not, you do choose your thoughts, and that choice is where your attitude originates.
As you internalize (or become emotionally involved with) your thoughts, you create the second stage in forming an attitude: your entire being – mind and body – moves into a “vibration” that corresponds with your internalized thoughts.
We refer to your conscious awareness of this vibration as “feeling.” Your feelings are then expressed in actions or behaviors that produce the results in your life.
What Do You Bring?
Results follow attitude like night follows day.
What I mean by that is your attitude is the cause, and your results are the effect. The axiom is “positive attitudes produce positive results.” They make success more likely, failures less detrimental, pleasures more frequent, and pain more bearable.
People with a positive attitude tend to bring warm sunshine wherever they go. Those with a negative attitude bring cold chills.
Which do you bring?
To find out where you can improve, take an inventory of your predispositions, the attitude you’re most likely to start with:
• Are you generally optimistic or pessimistic?
• Do you tend to assume the best or expect the worst?
• Is your first instinct to be supportive or critical?
• Do you send the message that you are passionate about life or that you’re simply enduring it?
• Do you come across as the captain of your own ship or simply a passenger?
It’s Impersonal
The world plays no favorites; it’s impersonal. It doesn’t care who succeeds and who fails, nor does it care whether we change or not.
However, a person’s attitude is incalculably powerful in bringing about the marvelous results, success, and joy they desire. However, we must train it patiently, day by day.
Successful people come in all sizes, shapes, and colors and widely varying degrees of intelligence, background, and education. But they have two things in common—they expect to get more good out of life than bad and to succeed more often than they fail. And they experience both.
When you want something worthwhile, take the attitude that there are many more reasons you can have it than why you can’t. Set out to earn it—go after it—work for it—ask for it—and nine times out ten, you’ll get it.
What’s Going On Inside Shows On The Outside
Attitude is the reflection of a person.
Our environment, the world we’ve created around ourselves, is really a mirror of our attitude. If we don’t like our environment, we can change it by changing our attitudes.
Wherever you are on the attitude spectrum, think how much better things could be if you were more consistently and self-consciously optimistic, empathetic, supportive, grateful, enthusiastic, hopeful, and cheerful.
Of course, by now, you’re probably wondering how to create a positive, success-oriented attitude?
Well, I could go on and on here, but it would be best if you watch The Magic Word, Lesson One of The New Lead the Field Coaching Program (see below).
The Magic Word shows you that our attitude toward life doesn’t affect the world and the people in it nearly as much as it affects us. And it provides tips and strategies to begin improving your attitude.
It’s a great lesson. Download it now and listen to it every day for at least ten days, and you will start to develop an exceptional attitude sooner than you think.
After you listen to the lesson, pick one thing you will do differently tomorrow to help improve your attitude. Then, leave us a comment below to let us know what you chose and the effect it’s having on your attitude.
To your success,
Bob Proctor
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