Ron White's Ezine
November 17, 2005
Issue 08

Welcome!

One of my best friends coaches a group of 13 year old boys in soccer. He saw some leadership potential in one of the boys but he also saw some disturbing qualities. My friend approached the boy and told him that he thought he could be captain of the team, but he wanted to see changes in some of his behaviors. Almost overnight, the boy stopped his whining and complaining. He became responsible and an effective leader. Today, he is the captain of the soccer team and parents who have known this kid for years are asking my friend what he did to transform him.

My friend didn't do anything other than tell someone that he believed in him and thought he could do better. When was the last time you told someone that you believed in them? You can criticize until the cows come home. However, if you want to see lasting change... find the positives in a person and reinforce those. When you do those qualities will grow and overshadow the less desirable qualities.

For an overnight transformation...find positives and make them captain!

Go for more this week!
Ron White

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In This Issue.....

1. No Room for Excuses by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Guest Article - The 13 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Success
      by Brian Tracy
4. Three Very Special Offers, including Ron's Newest Release!
5. Customer Feedback
6. More Information

1. No Room for Excuses by Ron White

'The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.' You have heard it a million times. However, my guess is that you have never heard it from the mouth of the 'rich'. Instead, this echo has most likely bounced to your ear with its origins being an excuse. That is right... an excuse. Excuses are what many use to pacify their guilt of not accomplishing what they are capable of.

I am not suggesting that wealth is success. My inference is that success is the progressive realization of predetermined worthwhile goals. It may be something as simple as raising a family.

What do these names have in common?
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton

They were all President Of The United States, right? They were all the most powerful man in the world at one point. However, I am looking for something else...

Richard Nixon... Nixon was born in the home his father built. He won an award from Harvard his senior year of high school. However, his family was unable to afford his leaving home for college. He instead attended Whittier College.

Gerald Ford... Ford was born as Leslie Lynch King, Jr. In 1913 his mother left her abusive husband and took her son to live with her parents. She met Gerald R. Ford, whom she married and gave her child his name Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. He was the only President to be adopted. Ford worked in his stepfather's paint and varnish store growing up. He coached boxing during college to afford his tuition.

Jimmy Carter... He was the first member of his family ever to go to college and his father was a peanut farmer.

Ronald Reagan... Son of an alcoholic traveling shoe salesman. He worked his way into show business by broadcasting baseball games. At forty, he was divorced and his career was at a dead end.

Bill Clinton... Born William Jefferson Blythe IV, his father (a traveling salesmen) died in an automobile accident three months before he was born. His mother married Roger Clinton and Bill took that name. Clinton grew up in a turbulent family. His stepfather was a gambler and alcoholic who regularly abused his wife, and sometimes Clinton's half brother Roger.

None of these men were born into wealth and prosperity, yet they each achieved the rank of most powerful person in the world by working hard and not making excuses. That is 5 out of the last 7 Presidents or 71% of Presidents in the last generation born into normal families who struggled. Yet, they refused to use that as an excuse.

It is true that these men were healthy and had no physical handicaps. However, I encourage you to visit http://www.johnfoppe.com and watch his video. This speaker proves that there is no room for excuses, regardless of your lot in life.

Life is too short to make excuses. Set your goals and pursue them. If you have been dealt a 'worse' hand than another, it may indeed be a gift that teaches you the value of hard work. Your story will be richer and your success sweeter when you achieve your dreams. Maybe one day I will cast a vote for you as President Of The United States!

Ron White
 

2. Quotes of The Week

"In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." -- Marilyn vos Savant

"When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, 'I'm going to prove you wrong!'" -- Picabo Street

"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you." -- Denis Waitley

"Wealth is nothing more than a refusal to listen to broke people... and refusal to talk their language... and refusal to end up the refuse of life..." -- Doug Firebaugh

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." -- Leonardo da Vinci

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must...be undaunted when the going gets tough." -- Ronald Reagan

"The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and insignificant is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed and then death or victory." -- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

"The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time." -- Vince Lombardi
 

3. Guest Article - The 13 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Success by Brian Tracy

1. The Law of Control: You feel good about yourself to the degree to which you feel that you are in control of you own life.

2. The Law of Responsibility: You are completely responsible for everything you are and fore everything you become and achieve.

3. The Law of Direction: Successful people have a clear sense of purpose and direction in every area of their lives.

4. The Law of Compensation: You are always fully compensated for whatever you do, positive or negative.

5. The Law of Service: Your rewards in life will always be in direct proportion to the value of your service to others.

6. The Law of Applied Effort: All things are amenable to hard work.

7. The Law of Overcompensation: If you always do more than you are paid for, you will always be paid more than you are getting now.

8. The Law of Preparation: Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation.

9. The Law of Forced Efficiency: The more things you have to do in a limited period of time, the more you will be forced to work on your most important tasks.

10. The Law of Decision: Every great leap forward in life is preceded by a clear decision and a commitment to action.

11. The Law of Creativity: Every advance in human life begins with an idea in the mind of a single person.

12. The Law of Flexibility: Success is best achieved when you are clear about the goal but flexible about the process of getting there.

13. The Law of Persistence: Your ability to persist in the face of setbacks and disappointments is your measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed.


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5. Customer Feedback

Here are some of the testimonials and comments we received from our Ezine subscribers. We love receiving comments and feedback from our readers - so keep it coming!  

The average individual uses approximately 10% of their God given ability due to the fact we limit our belief in the power of the mind. Ron White helps you learn to stretch your mind and increase your ability to remember names, faces, facts and numbers which helps everyone in the people business and increases productivity. You will not only be amazed, you will learn concrete skills and techniques! His seminar is A MUST for everyone who wants to succeed.
-- Rena Tarbet, Mary Kay Independent Senior National Sales Director

Dear Ron and Charles and Kyle, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I received the package. It arrived whilst I was away in Singapore for Tony Robbins' WEALTH MASTERY" program there. And thanks for the BONUS GIFT... the book is simply awesome too.... THANK YOU. I'm on my way to start my learning with your tools. Thanks once again and make this day an OUTSTANDING ONE.
-- Jennifer Liew

My name is Bill Nieporte. I am a full-time pastor of a small but wonderfully loving rural church in the middle of nowhere, Virginia (actually we are on the Eastern Shore, the only undeveloped piece of real estate on the east coast of the USA). Anyway, I have always received high marks as a gifted preacher. I love communication and though my church is small, I have had many chances to preach in big churches and speak on platforms of up to 2000 people. It's a real blast - but for me always involved hard work of preparation (of course) and even harder work of MEMORIZATION. I never really memorized verbatim - but it was pretty close too it. Since completing your "Memory in a Month" course, the memorization has been much easier, and more enjoyable. In fact, the pictures I create and place on my "Sanctuary List" provide even greater inspiration toward additional content. It's an incredible blast! My congregation has noticed! This past Sunday three different people said, basically: "Don't take this wrong, cause you have always been a good preacher - but the last several sermons have been simple incredible." Since the raw material (the Bible) is equally good each week - and my preparation and interpretation is basically the same, I have to assume the reason for the praise it that I have been using the system you taught. Additionally, we've had several visitors over the last few weeks - and they have been amazed that I remember their name when seeing them in the community. They've even come back a second time for that very reason. My reason for writing is simply to say THANKS! My wife listened to the material with me - and is finding application as a teacher with "special needs" children. Our young children are going to go through the materials with us following labor day, as they begin school. I have always enjoyed listening to Zig, Jim, Chris, Brian and the other motivational speakers with whom you associate, not to mention the pulpit masters from whom I try to gather wisdom. I am happy to place you among these esteemed individuals. I also purchased your Einstein resource - and we listened to it while traveling for seven hours to our mountain "family retreat" just a few months ago. It was very enjoyable listening. Thanks again for these wonderful resources. Someday I hope we can meet in person. Till then I offer you God's blessings!
-- Bill Nieporte

Ron: I want to thank you for a great system, I just got your CD as part of a collection of CDs on leadership, and I heard your CD called Easy Steps to a Better Memory. It is great.
-- Jose Fernandez

I just would like to say I did enjoy reading your materials sent to me. I have learned so much with it specially one that is related to Einstein's principles. More power and God bless to all of you there who's doing some great job in helping many people to be inspired and contribute whatever achievement they can attain through your wisdom and expertise.
-- Mr. Sison


Thank you Ezine readers, for the sincere and kind words of encouragement and appreciation you sent us this week! -- RW
 

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