Ron White's Ezine
October 25, 2006
Issue 30

Are you looking for a speaker?

Well...I am looking for a meeting!

I will travel anywhere for a speech. Just last week I was scheduled to speak in Brussels, Belgium on Dec 1st and last year found myself in Singapore. So whether your meeting is in my home town of Dallas, Texas or literally halfway around the world - let's make it happen!

My most popular talk is The Business Building Power of a Trained Memory. In this talk, I memorize up to 100 audience members' names and a 40-digit number that your group creates, and that I never see. Then I teach your group to recall names, product knowledge, sales training, chapters of books, numbers, and much more!

My next most requested talk is To Have A Winning Year. In this talk I cover: The Ten Commandments of Selling; Memory Skills To Boost Productivity and An Attitude For Achievement.

Reply to this email or send an email to speaker@memoryinamonth.com and let us know when your next meeting is! I'll look forward to giving you a presentation you will never forget!

Go for More this Week!
Ron White

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In This Issue.....

1. An Undisputed Advantage by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Back to Boot Camp by Chris Widener
4. Want a Speaker Who Will Educate Your Group While Instilling Humor, Excitement and Passion?
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1. An Undisputed Advantage by Ron White

Sometimes success in life is a result of setting yourself apart from your competition or simply everyone else. There is one behavior that without a doubt will give you an advantage over those around you. I will allow Thomas Jefferson explain to share what that is. He once said, "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

Have you ever been in a stressful situation or in a storm of life in which you were not able to maintain your cool? It happens to all of us. Billy Joel puts it this way in his hit song 'Pressure':

But you will come to a place
Where the only thing you feel
Are loaded guns in your face
And you'll have to deal with
Pressure

Jefferson and Joel are in agreement that you will have to handle pressure. Jefferson suggests that how you respond to that pressure can give you a distinct advantage over those around. Accepting the fact that you will encounter adverse situations, how do you prepare yourself to always remain cool?

You must run through this check list before the moment of truth arrives, because under pressure this list is clouded and feels miles away.

Remind yourself that your life has seen many challenges and you worked through each one and are still standing today.

Remind yourself that you are not the first to encounter obstacles and others have made it – so can you.

Unless you are being attacked in a physical manner, never allow yourself to respond without knowing all the facts.

Again, unless being attacked in a physical manner practice the rule of five, and that is slowly counting to yourself to five before you respond.

Do not fear walking away from the table as you allow the issue to cool. Do not shirk from asking for help. A team is always stronger than an individual. The question is not, will you encounter struggles in life. The question is how will you respond? For a distinct advantage over others, remember the words of our third president and keep your head.

-- 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 across the country. Ron's live workshops sell out every time at $349 per person. For more information about booking Ron to speak at your next meeting or event go to www.memoryinamonth.com or email speaker@memoryinamonth.com or call 877-929-0439.

 

2. Quotes of The Week

PREPARATION

"You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation." -- Jim Rohn

"One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared." -- Merlin Olsen

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." -- Whitney Young, JR.

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight." -- Arthur Ashe

"Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable." -- Menander of Athens

"The most successful people in every area invariably spend far more time in preparation than the least successful." -- Brian Tracy

"By chance, you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared." -- Louis Pasteur

"What distinguishes winners is the will to prepare to win." -- Tony Jeary

"From product knowledge springs the expertise to work with clients in the effective and professional manner that earns high income. Invest ten minutes daily reviewing your product information or using your product so you know it inside and out." -- Tom Hopkins




3. Back to Boot Camp by Chris Widener

You know, whenever you are going to make a major change and begin to undergo a different lifestyle, it is probably good to make a massive move in that direction. Think about it. As the old saying goes, "If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got!" So if you keep on living the way you are living, you will keep right on with the life that in many ways you wish was changing! So how do you change your life? You change what you are doing!

This is the basic idea behind the military's Boot Camp. You know the drill. This is where they take a bunch of 18-year-old kids who think they are in pretty good shape, both physically and psychologically and they put them through six weeks of misery! But the misery is intentional!

All of the hard work and physical and mental exercise they put the young folks through is to strengthen them and to prepare them for the jobs they will be performing later on. Could you imagine if the military took a lackadaisical approach and greeted every new recruit with, "Welcome to the Army. We are going to work you easy into your new lifestyle. You can get up tomorrow around ten and brunch will be served at eleven. Come as you are." No way! They get them accustomed to drastic and massive change because they want them to have drastic and massive change in their lives. The only time they ever got up at four a.m. before was to go fishing'! Now it will be every morning!

So what about a life boot camp? Is it possible? Is it something we could, or should, try? I think for many people, the idea of a six-week period of drastic change would be great for them. Even if they didn't live that way the rest of their lives they would still probably make a major shift in the direction they want to go and would be happy with the results they would receive.

So here are some thoughts on ways you could go through a life boot camp. Give it a try for six weeks, just like in boot camp, and see if it doesn't make a difference in your life. As always, if you are going to do something physically, contact a doctor and if financially, contact your financial advisor before beginning anything.

Health.
Try getting up a half hour earlier and going for a walk or a run every day. Perhaps you just skip a half hour of television at night and do it then.
Try cutting out desserts or other favorite fattening foods.

Emotions.
Make contact with a broken relationship and begin to get together with them to restore your friendship.
Take time each day, even if just for fifteen minutes to sit quietly in silence or with some soft music just to quiet your spirit.

Finances.
Don't make any new purchases that aren't essential for six weeks.
Take any extra money you get and pay it all toward your debt. Every nickel!

Spiritual.
Attend your local family of faith for six weeks in a row.
Take time each day to listen to some spiritual music or read good faith building literature. (This can probably be combined with the time you take for emotions)

These are just some thoughts for you. I am sure you can come up with some of your own. The idea is to make a drastic step in the right direction. Maybe you do all of them; maybe you combine just a few. The goal, however, is to put yourself into a life boot camp situation. That is what will help you change and make you strong!


Chris Widener has been speaking professionally since 1988 and has shared the stage with top political figures, nationally known television news anchors, best-selling authors, and professional athletes. He has spoken on motivation and leadership to groups at some of America's finest organizations such as General Electric, Cisco Systems, and the Harvard Business School. Chris has written over 400 articles and 8 books and has produced over 30 audio programs on leadership and motivation. His most recent books are The Image, Twelve Pillars, co-authored with Jim Rohn, and The Angel Inside. If you would like to order Chris' products, including his newest book The Image, or Twelve Pillars, co-authored with Jim Rohn, or The Angel Inside, or his newest CD series, The Secrets of Influence or The Extraordinary Leaders Seminar go to http://www.chriswidener.com or call 877-929-0439.





 4. Want a Speaker Who Will Educate Your Group While Instilling Humor, Excitement and Passion?

Over the past decade Ron White has traveled the country and shared with business professionals and students the value of a trained memory. Ron recently completed a speaking tour in Malaysia and Singapore where he shared the stage with several well known and respected presenters. After the tour was complete, he was astounded to find out that out of the six speakers, Ron was the only speaker who received a perfect score from both audiences! The events went so well he has been invited back to conduct a 20 city tour of China next year, then Thailand and Australia!

Ron has delivered tailored workshops for General Motors, Microsoft, Boy Scouts of America, Lexus, Coldwell Banker, Norwest Mortgage, Century 21 and thousands more across the country.

He broke the Guinness World Record by memorizing a 28-digit number in 1 minute 15 seconds on the FOX Good Day Dallas Show (March 1, 2001).

He memorized the first seven chapters of the book of Proverbs for the Christian Business Expo in 1996. However, he will be the first to tell you, "What is amazing is not that I can do these things...it is amazing that I can teach ANYONE to do these things!"

Ron White is available to speak to your business or organization on the following topics:

How to Have a Winning Year - Ron's Signature Series!

Improve Your Memory - Double Your Sales

The Benefits of a Powerful Memory

22 Success Lessons From Baseball

How to Develop the Mind of Einstein

Selling's Not Telling


A Message From Ron White....

In my talk How to Have a Winning Year, I cover three key areas. The first area is Memory Skills to Boost Productivity. I do the exact same demonstration live for your group that I did on FOX television when I broke the Guinness World Record for memory by memorizing a 28-digit number in 1 minute and 15 seconds. This will generate the excitement and interest on how powerful the human brain actually is. Then we transition to remembering names and faces. We will talk about the value of giving speeches without using notes and being able to memorize your product knowledge or information pertinent to your job.

The second part of my How to Have a Winning Year talk is How to Maintain Positive, Upward, Consistent Growth in Your Life. Believe it or not, there is a way to not ride that rollercoaster of life with ups and downs. Sure there are still going to be ups and downs, but you can help make the slope consistent, positive and maintain upward growth.

And finally, we will close out the How to Have a Winning Year talk with How to Think Life the Great Thinkers -- Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Alexander Graham Bell. We will look at the lives of these great thinkers and find out what it was that enabled them to tap into the other 90% of the brain that most are not using.

This seminar is going to be fun, it is going to be professional and it is going to be educational. Your group is going to be laughing and they are going to have a great time. But they will also walk away with some very tangible skills that they an put into practice that day to increase their productivity and to increase their performance.

This seminar will be one you will never forget. I am looking forward to it and I hope you are as well. Please call or email and let's schedule this wonderful opportunity for your group today.


To book Ron White to speak for your company, group, association, weekly/monthly meeting, office staff etc., send an email to speaker@memoryinamonth.com and include your name, company, date and location of event, along with anticipated audience size and composition or call 877-929-0439 and ask for Hilary or Charles.
 

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