Ron White's Ezine
December 6, 2006
Issue 33

Class. A lot of life is about class.

I once had a friend describe a man to me. He said, 'He had such a nice house, nice car, cuff links, nice clothes and stylish hair cut. He had so much class!'

I didn't say a word but the description he gave me is not the definition for class. Class has nothing to do with your income or social status - although if you have it, it is very likely these will be impacted.

You see... being a success in sales, business or even relationships has a lot to do with class. Class is that intangible quality that some have and others don't. The good news is that having class is a choice and we can all have it. You can obtain class by treating yourself and others with respect, by looking people in the eye, by telling the truth, doing what you say you are going to do, making life about others, being selfless instead of selfish and taking care of yourself physically, mentally and spiritually.

You can live the most modest life on the lowest income and have more class than the richest man in a penthouse because class is your choice. I genuinely believe if you have it you will find your life is very successful regardless of your status.

Make class your choice and choose a great life!

Go for More this Week!
Ron White

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In This Issue.....

1. Good Game by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Respect For Others by Tony Alessandra
4. Four Great Gift Giving Ideas From Ron White!
5. More Information

1. Good Game by Ron White

I was eight years old. Looking back I remember walking across the baseball diamond of a little league field and forming a line to pass the team that we had just played. The drill was to shake their hands and say, 'Good game!'

I learned something at the age of 8… It is a lot easier to do that when you win!

When you lose, you have a tendency to slap the hand - instead of shake it - and look at the ground instead of the eyes. This is not only true at 8...it is true for adults as well. A few years ago I played 16 games in a softball league. You know you are on a bad softball team when motivational speaker, Ron White, is the stand-out superstar of the team! We lost 15 games in a ROW! It was humiliating. During the age old, 'Good game' handshake after each loss...I made a point to look each player in the eye and shake not slap the hand. I did this because I knew when I was eight years old I couldn't do it. I couldn't look my opponent in the eye and congratulate them on a good game. Somehow I took the loss as a hit on my self worth and felt my self confidence had been slapped, therefore I did what most eight year olds do and I slapped the opponent's hand not giving them the satisfaction of a shake. I was wrong at the age of eight, yet happy today as an adult I have learned this lesson and that lesson is: There is something to be said for losing well.

In 1960, Richard Nixon could have contested the close presidential election. He didn't. He lost well and was elected a decade later to the same office. A few years ago, John Thune lost a razor thin election in South Dakota. He could have contested the election. He didn't. He lost well and won a seat in the US Senate in a later election year.

In 2000, John Ashcroft lost a Senate race to a woman who was standing in for her husband who passed away months before. He could have contested. He didn't and became attorney general.

Whether it is a baseball game, office promotion or political race – you can tell a lot about a person by how they handle defeat. The individual who handles defeat as a minor setback is not allowing the event to define him. On the other hand, someone who cannot handle defeat is allowing the event to define his self-worth. Events can only define your self-worth if you allow them to. You cease allowing events to define your self worth when you handle defeat as a learning experience and remount the horse that has thrown you for another ride.

In money, your career or love when you lose -- as hard as it may be -- look them in the eye, refuse to allow the events to shape your self worth and shake their hand literally or metaphorically as you say, 'Good game.' You just might find yourself winning the next game.

-- Ron White  

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2. Quotes of The Week

LIFESTYLE

"Some people have learned to earn well, but they haven't learned to live well." -- Jim Rohn

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game." -- Harvey B. Mackay

"Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death." -- Mame Dennis in the movie "Auntie Mame"

"Most people are too busy living life to ever put life in their living..." -- Doug Firebaugh

"Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do." -- Brian Tracy

"Money doesn’t make you sophisticated. Only study and practice make you sophisticated. Even people of modest means can become sophisticated because it is within study and practice. How much is a night out at the symphony? About thirty dollars. You say, ‘Poor people can’t afford thirty dollars to go to the symphony.’ Yes, they can. It’s only thirty Hershey bars!" -- Jim Rohn

"Most people spend more time planning a vacation or a party than they spend planning their lives." -- Denis Waitley

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely." -- Jim Rohn




3. Respect For Others by Tony Alessandra

When I was in high school back in 1960's, everyone always divided themselves into self-contained, often exclusive, groups. These groups followed all the old clichés -- you had your greasers, your jocks, your nerds, your college prep kids, and your vocational kids -- and everyone was always careful to stay within their own group.

Although I was technically in the athletic group (or jocks) and the college prep group, I always tried to go out of my way to get along with everyone -- no matter what group they were associated with. I always got good grades, so I fit in with the smart kids. I was born and raised in New York City, so I got along with the greasers. I tried to find my connection with everyone, which was not hard at all. After all, we were all high school kids -- we had plenty to bond over with the shared experience of going to the same school.

However, the reason that I was able to build on those commonalities -- the reason people from other groups were friendly back to me -- was that I treated everyone with respect. I never gossiped about the popular crowd, never teased or taunted the nerds. I made an effort to see everyone's positive aspects, and I focused on those. In essence, I treated others the way they wanted to be treated, and it gave me the ability to adapt and be liked by just about everybody.

I have carried that philosophy throughout my whole life: I am as polite to a janitor as a CEO. As people, they both exist on the same level -- and both deserve the same amount of outward respect.

My mantra: "What goes around, comes around."

What do you have "coming around" for yourself?

Here's to more personal insight,
Tony Alessandra


Dr. Tony Alessandra helps companies build customers, relationships, and the bottom-line. Tony has a street-wise, college-smart perspective on business, having fought his way out of NYC to eventually realizing success as a graduate professor of marketing, entrepreneur, business author, and consultant. Dr. Alessandra earned his MBA from the University of Connecticut---and his PhD in marketing from Georgia State University. He was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame in 1985. To learn more about Dr. Alessandra's products (both CDs and MP3s) go to http://alessandra.yoursuccessstore.com&kbid=2700 or call 877-929-0439.






 4. Four Great Gift Giving Ideas From Ron White!
 
Make sure and check out my Four Great Gift Giving Ideas including Memory in a Month, Write It On Your Heart, How to Develop the Mind of Einstein and Speed Reading.

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Would you like to be able to:

Recall names and faces?
Give speeches without notes?
Retain information from workshops or training classes?
Be able to hear 65 words once and then be able to repeat them forwards, backwards or by number?
Recall information from books you read?
Improve your grades and study skills?

Memory in a Month makes an incredible gift for yourself and others (as does Write It On Your Heart, How to Develop the Mind of Einstein and Speed Reading)!

Special offer good for a limited time. To learn more or to order visit http://memory.yoursuccessstore.com or call 877-929-0439.

And remember, Always Go For More!
Ron White




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