This week my Texas Rangers lost a game to The New York Yankees 14-13.
What is remarkable about the score is not the high final score, what was
remarkable was in the third inning the Rangers were winning 10-1. They
had a nine run lead and lost the game! It was a heart breaker for me -
but a good metaphor we can apply to our lives.
The metaphor is that if you are off to a slow start don't panic. In
addition, don't try to do too much. The Yankees didn't get their runs in
one inning. They got 2 runs here, 1 run there and before you knew it
they won the game! Too often when a professional gets off to a slow
start in business, they throw their hands up in the air and walk away or
even worse they begin to think they have to do too much and try to hit
grand slams even when no one is on base.
When you get off to a slow start. Do what The New York Yankees did this
week - just make contact, focus on getting base hits and building
momentum and before you know it everyone will be talking about your
comeback win!
Remember it is not about where you start, it is where you finish that
counts. You finish strong by sticking to the basics and not trying to do
too much. Finish strong!
Go for More this Week!
Ron White
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In This Issue.....
1. Potential by Ron White
2. Quotes of the
Week
3. Guest Article: The Two Choices we Face by Jim Rohn
4. How Would You Like to Help Your Grad (or children/students) Sail Smoothly through School, College and Beyond?
5. More Information
1. Potential by Ron White
The stage was a Texas Rangers baseball game and as I stared at David
Dellucci, the Texas Ranger batter, I muttered ‘Potential’ as he held the
bat over his shoulder waiting for the pitch. No sooner had the word
escaped my mouth when my friend leaned over and said, "What did you
say?" I replied to her, "I said potential…" Her confused question was, "Okaaaay?
– Potential in regards to what?"
I then explained… "Well, in science they have something called potential
energy and it basically says that the higher an object is the more
potential energy it has. For example, a rock on top of a building has a
potential energy in it – if it were to fall. I was just thinking about
the potential energy in the bat of Dellucci and how that relates to me."
She looked at me intensely somehow sensing that I was telling the truth,
and that these were my thoughts. Then she proclaimed, "I never cease to
be astounded at the weird things you think about."
Perhaps it is an odd thought to cross my mind at a baseball game,
however, it occurred. Potential energy basically says that the higher an
object is the greater the potential energy. A ball on a six story
building has more potential energy than one on a three story building.
As a matter of fact, the doubling of the height doubles the potential
energy.
At the baseball game, when I started thinking about potential energy I
was considering it in regards to me – and you for that matter. You see,
it has been said that to those who much has been given… much is
expected. Based on the fact that you have access to a computer,
understand how to read and have a thirst for learning – you have been
given much. Or in scientific terms you have tremendous potential energy.
You are like that rock on a tall building. However, if you sit there –
the potential energy is never utilized or accessed.
One of the greatest tragedies of life is when an individual has
tremendous potential energy and squanders it. That is one of my greatest
fears. I am constantly faced with the prospect of not using my potential
energy. To me that is one of my largest motivating factors. Everyday as
I age, I look in the mirror and question if I did everything I could to
use my potential energy. Did I do everything I could to figuratively
jump off that building and expend the energy?
Pent up inside of you right now is tremendous potential energy that
could be utilized to cure cancer, send humans to Mars, write a novel or
become President of The United States. The great tragedy is not
expending your potential energy and falling short. The great tragedy of
life is to be that boulder – to have tremendous potential energy and
squander it through inaction.
There you have it. I was thinking about potential at the baseball game.
I was thinking about it because I know that humans with nothing more
than primitive tools constructed the pyramids, Stonehenge and The Great
Wall of China. These are testaments to the human potential. They are
testaments to certain individuals thousands of years ago expending their
potential energy for the ages to witness and marvel at. The challenge
today for you may not be a monument for society or culture; however, it
is a call for you to understand potential energy and implore you to
seize yours.
-- Ron White
Ron White has spent over a decade training business professionals
and students how to improve their memory, grades and income. He has
appeared on FOX television, broken a Guinness Record by memorizing a
28-digit number in 75 seconds, been a guest on over 35 radio programs in
the United States and Canada, and his articles have appeared in print
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2. Quotes of
The Week
POTENTIAL/POSSIBILITIES
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what
we are for what we could become." -- Charles du Bois
"No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights
and see the possibilities - always see them, for they’re always there."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why. I
dream of things that never were, and ask why not." -- Robert F. Kennedy
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally
astonish ourselves." -- Thomas A. Edison
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." --
Helen Keller
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical
aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake
us even in our soundest sleep." -- Henry David Thoreau
"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about
all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say
we only have learned a very, very small part of what it can do." --
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a
talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a
talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously
succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know." --
Thomas Wolfe
"There is only one small letter between the words CAN and CAN'T... and
that one letter will T-OTALLY change your destiny." -- Doug Firebaugh
"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." -- Braveheart
"Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don't have to
have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and
verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul
generated by love." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond
them into the impossible." -- Arthur Clarke
"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the
human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of
the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the
courage to succeed." -- Bernard Edmonds
"Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a
simile and go after life… Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel
it." -- Joe Kapp
3. The Two Choices We Face by Jim Rohn
Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do
with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have
the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think
less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices
that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead
to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous
anticipation.
And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly
be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we
possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive
and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have
the choice.
To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be
nothing at all.
Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch
upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do
all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as
long as we can?
Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent
and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we
could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings.
Results are the best measurement of human progress. Not conversation.
Not explanation. Not justification. Results! And if our results are less
than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to
become more today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are
always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the
world around them as a result of who and what they have become.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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and boost his self-esteem as he is a very worthy little boy.
I attended the workshop initially to help my own daughter with her study
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her "bedroom" and she was able to retrieve them on the test. Wow!
Thank you so much for your wonderful discovery and efforts. You are a
huge asset to our students. I loved your presentation. Thank you.
-- Wendy S., CR. Teacher - Wilm. College Professor
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