Episode number 867,
making positivity
a habit.
You're listening to the official B I podcast
with B and I founder and chief visionary
officer, doctor Ivan Me.
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from the man who's been called the father
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the official
B and I podcast.
I'm priscilla Rice and I'm coming to you
from Live oak recording studio in Berkeley, California,
and I'm joined on the phone today by
the founder and the chief visionary officer of
B and I, doctor Ivan Me.
Hello, Ivan. How are you and where are
you? I am in the Philippines this week.
It is my first visit to B and
I Philippines, and I'm really excited to be
here and meet all of the B and
I members in this country. Oh, great. And
who do you have with us today? I
have a long term friend of my norm
dom norm
I first met norman as a member back
in the eighties and
became the local regional director and executive director
and then became
the national director for B and I came
to work B I headquarters and the chief
operating officer and the chief executive officer
of B I's,
been in the organization for more than 36
years It's more than 36 years. We're coming
up on 40 norma...
Yeah. It's 36
last it we're 36 and a half now.
Alright. We've even been in a long time.
A long time. In a lot of different
positions. You're you're now AIA member
of the B I Titans chapter in Scottsdale,
I believe. Yes, sir. That's fantastic. It's fun.
I've got norm on this podcast.
He is the cofounder of pos global, a
global positivity movement that
strive to make the world a better place
is the author of the magic of positivity.
Third edition, be positive and you'll be happy.
And he hosts a weekly program on Zoom,
the positivity
remarkable form.
And he's been married for more than 46
years with 3 children, 3 adult children and
and 4 grandchildren and and 1 of your
children nate Dom is executive director in Phoenix
Scottsdale area.
Yes.
Great to have him as an executive director,
and I'm gonna be introducing him in the
Not too distant future as 1 of the
guest experts on
B and I podcast.
So welcome to B and I podcast,
norma. It's great to have you on.
Hey. I...
Our friendship does go back a long ways,
and it's
a pleasure to be with you today.
It's it's good to have have you here.
Your book is a really good book. I
I like it. You wanna talk a little
bit about the pillars of strength that you
talk about in your positivity book? That'd be
my pleasure. You know, we think of pillars
are strength, but
it's a term we use that you could
substitute
life values.
And and when were were looking up
life values. We couldn't find anything.
So all of a sudden, let's create our
own and we wanna call them something else.
So it... It's equivalent of values of life,
and we call them pillars of strength and
there happened to be 7 of them.
They range from,
never give up, show that you care
accept responsibility,
keep your word,
enjoy a little craziness.
Treat with respect and always think remarkable. Mh.
Your favorite word remarkable.
Ever since I've known you,
whenever I've asked you, how you're doing, You've
always said remarkable, which... I think is interesting
because it could be remarkably good, remarkably bad.
But generally speaking with you nor, I would
say it's remarkably good.
Well, I've enhanced it a little bit and
because I've improved remarkable
by 100
percent.
Because now if you ask me how I
am, I'll just say positively
remarkable. There we go. I like it. That's
good.
So talk about the law of positivity,
which you talk about in the book?
And we define the law positivity is when
you have and practice
pos
or
positive attitude.
You will become more excellent whatever you do.
And just... And then our tagline follows that,
and you've already mentioned it Ivan,
be positive and you
and all caps
will be happy. You know, I I think
you know this norm. I've done surveys a
few times with B and I about
what it takes to be
successful in networking
And in every survey, I've ever done,
having a positive attitude always comes up in
the top 2 or 3.
Categories,
top 2 or 3 items in terms of,
what it takes to be successful at networking,
you know, being positive.
And I think that's interesting because
I didn't really expect it to be in
the top 2 or 3,
when I first wrote the survey,
But now
whenever I do the survey, it always pops
up there, people wanna do business with people
who have a positive attitude, which in a
way doesn't shock me, but it did at
the time when I than it? Well, to
me, positivity or being positive is a foundation.
I mean, the way I look at it
is And if I can refer over to
what was developed by B and I, and
that's core values. Mh. And and I look
at your givers gain core value as the
centerpiece.
And and there are are 7 of these
core values
But, the book ins that hold that together
is positive
attitude
and
building
relationships.
And so there there you go. Givers gain,
positive attitude and building
relationships. You blend that And when what us,
we picked positivity
as a mode of operation to establish our
global positivity movement.
Mh.
Tell me about your positivity
umbrella. What is that?
Well, and umbrella is is
is a way to protect yourself so to
speak, and a positive umbrella consists of
a half a dozen
2 word messages, and they have to be
owned,
owned by the individual. So for example,
my positivity
umbrella,
consists of be yourself,
abundantly grateful, which I am abundantly grateful to
be with you today sharing this with information.
Always
think remarkable.
We've mentioned that. Stay calm.
You gotta take a deep breath. I've many,
many years ago, you recommended a book called
stay home.
And I also met the
author of that, and I was going into
a difficult
situation
that's why you
recommended it, and it really helped me deal
with that situation,
hands on
I required a trip to Europe, but my
dollar sakes it all won't worked out as
we go. Reality chat, how do you keep
yourself in balance?
And then finally, intense faith. And when I
say intense faith, having traveled around the world,
I I took the word faith and made
it an acronym.
And the f represents freedom,
the a represents attitude
the t represents
imagination
and the t, I represents imagination. I should
say, And the t stands for trust.
And finally,
the age represents hope. And right now in
the state of affairs around the world,
we have to really, really really have a
strong feeling of hope so we can get
through all this.
Yeah. Oh, and I'm... You know, during Covid,
I I came up with a phrase of
B and I as a beacon of hope
and a sea of fear.
World is kind of a crazy place, but
the B and I really, I think gives
a lot of business people hope like you're
saying? I agree. I agree. And can I
just say about about remaining call of all
the people I have known of all the
business people I have known in the last
40 years,
you are without a doubt the calm
person
that I have known in terms of dealing
with chaos and
stuff around there and
it's been truly amazing
watching
you b calm when I was ready to
pull my hair out?
What I I think... You know, it's it's
operative in terms of what we're surrounded by.
We know we're gonna have
situations, crop up.
1 of the things I learned and stay
calm.
Take a deep breath.
You don't have to respond
instantly.
And in that deep breath, I really start
thinking of positive things. How are we gonna
make this
situation
come out the way we need it to
come out. Mh. And now it's just as
I become a little more seasoned in life,
whether it's personal, whether it's professional or whether
it's staying something in between. Hey, being calm
is the operative way to handle it.
Yep.
It as much as possible. I couldn't agree
more. 1 more question for you. Why why
is positive attitude so important in all facets
of life? Oh, gosh.
It impacts the way we engage in all
of our activities.
Be they professional
personal or order... It plus it influences how
we can make the world a better place.
And to me, I give attention to
joy happiness
love, passion and peace.
I don't wanna make that sound like I'm
exaggerating about it, but it really
gives us the perspective
to level things out
and move forward
in in really a positive way. That's why
we have our pillars of strength And that's
why we call it the magic of positivity.
Yeah. Really strong book. I really like it
norm. And for those of you who are
interested in checking it out, go to pos
global dot com that's P0SSI
global
dot com.
Check out the book. It's it's available on
Amazon. Isn't it? Yes, sir. Yes. So it
yes. You can also get around the world.
All around the world. All around the world.
Almost every Amazon platform you
either type in the title or just type
in my name.
Nor,
and it pops up. Any last thought before
we wrap up on?
You know, I'm excited about the direction
of
not just positivity,
but taking control of the things
that we are surrounded by. And when you
do that, the outcome is gonna be
generally in your favor.
And you can be helping others at the
same time. Well, thanks for being on norm.
We've been friends for many, many, many years
and I look forward to continued friendship with
you, and you need to come on at
to Austin again sometime soon. I will. And
as long as a good lord ruling, and
I can make it to
80 years old, then we'll be able to
celebrate
over 50 years of friendship. So I look.
Yeah. Absolutely. I look forward to that. My
friend.
Thank you for being on b my podcast.
Thanks, Ivan. Over to Priscilla. Okay. Well, that's
it for this week. Thank you so much
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