It was GREAT seeing so many of you in Dallas last week at the Jim
Rohn 2 Day Event! Now I am back in North Carolina promoting my own 2 Day
event June 4th and 5th. It will be an intense sales training and memory
training workshop. I hope to see you there as well!
How is North Carolina you ask?... (Beach Boys instrumental here) 'Let's
go surfing now... Everybody's learning how... Come on an safari with
me.....' Yep, a Texas guy who has only ridden horses and mechanical
bulls is now trying his hand at surfing. Let me tell you what...if you
are in need of being humbled, this is the sport for you! But because I
believe you can always learn something from whatever situations life
presents, I have picked up some valuable lessons--life lessons--from
surfing. Here they are:
1. To surf you have to paddle out to deep enough water to catch a wave.
LESSON - In life you will most likely NOT catch a wave of success by
standing where you are. Instead success is caught by working to get to a
point where you can have a possibility to catch a wave of success.
2. When paddling out, waves will try to knock you back and off your
board. To keep this from happening lay flat on your board, duck your
head down, push the nose of the board down and dive into the wave with
your board. LESSON - In life obstacles will be there to knock you down
and back. You must dive into the obstacles... they can't be avoided.
3. It certainly helps to get advice from other surfers. LESSON - In life
get a mentor who has achieved success and ask them how (Suggestion -
when surfing don't use the word 'mentor'. It is not 'cool' and you will
certainly be deemed the geek of the group).
4. You can't surf if you are tense... relax. LESSON - RELAX!!!
5. In order to stay on your board you must be balanced. LESSON - Make
sure your life is balanced... work, play, health, mental and spiritual.
6. When you do finally catch a wave the tendency is to lean back but this will only result in a fall. Lean forward and you will keep your balance. LESSON - In life, often the natural reaction is to pull back or relax after success, but the only way to keep momentum is to lean forward and keep pressing on towards more success.
7. You are not going to catch a wave on your first try. It is hard...
hard... hard for a beginner. LESSON - In life, don't give up.
Surfing is fun and so is success - but both take work. The payoff in
surfing is a 5-10 second wave to ride (that I have yet to experience)
and in life it can be much more. So I am off to catch a wave, and here
is wishing you a wave of success!
Go for More this Week!
Ron White
PS After reading my welcome note, you're probably saying, "Hey,
this Ron White is not just a 'memory guy! He's got skills beyond just
the memory stuff." Well, I took Jim Rohn's advice--develop multiple
skills--to heart that he talked about at the 2 day event! In fact,
Monday was the beginning of baseball season and many of you know what a
HUGE fan I am! So to kick off the 2007 baseball season, I'm offering
you, my fellow baseball fans, my book titled, 22 Lessons from Baseball
(yep, another skill--writing). So if you are a baseball fan, know
baseball fans or just want to buy a really cool book to give out, then
check out the details below (see #4 below)! Oh, and just in case I
haven't said it lately... THANK YOU for reading!
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In This Issue.....
1. Robert Frost and Bobby Thigpen by Ron White
2. Quotes of the
Week
3. Stay Focused on the Big Picture by Harvey Mackay
4. Just in Time for Spring!
5. My Next Memory AND Sales Seminar will be June 4-5, 2007 in North Carolina!
6. More Information
1. Robert Frost and Bobby Thigpen (Excerpted From
22 Success Lessons From Baseball By Ron White)
Bobby Thigpen spent most of his career with the Chicago White Sox and
had a good baseball career. However, I am sure that it's a little known
fact that he also fancied himself as somewhat of a poet. That's right...
a poet. The man who the White Sox looked to in the ninth to mow down
batters could have been the next Robert Frost.
Actually, that may be an exaggeration. His poetry most likely would not
have received an 'A' in any Junior High English class. Thigpen, after
his first full year in the Major Leagues, posted a 7 and 5 record with
16 saves and an ERA of 2.70. But, he did sense that the possibility of
not being signed was real. He sent this short poem to White Sox chairman
Jerry Reinsdorf:
As I sit at home this off-season,
I wonder what the hell is the reason,
Why the club wants to be unfair,
Underpaying a player who can produce and care.
Reinsdorf could roll with the punches and promptly responded with some
rhymes of his own.
I hope you are a really good pitcher,
Because as a poet you will never get richer;
If you are not pitching this year,
I will be sad but won't fear;
Though you may be one of the best,
There's always someone among the rest.
At this point it was getting fun. And Thigpen couldn't resist but to
respond with more poetry of his own. Thigpen sent this gem to his fellow
poet:
It is true that my potential as a poet is very small,
But, in the ninth who do you want to have the ball?
You say there will always be someone among the rest,
But, who do you want, them or the best?
Thigpen didn't get his salary doubled like he wanted. But, he did get
signed and had a nice career. Someone once said that, 'Life is too
serious to be taken seriously.' Thigpen is a man who had an
unconventional and fun approach to a very serious issue, such as his
salary. How often in business and life do you make a serious situation
only more serious by being unnecessarily stoic. If we can learn any
lesson from Thigpen it would be to lighten up and have some fun.
Ron White
This article is excerpted from Ron White's 22 Success Lessons from
Baseball. By studying baseball, you can learn a lot about life, success
and failure. This book is a collection of short lessons that our
national pastime can teach us if we let it. To learn more or to purchase
this entertaining, insightful book, scroll down to #4 below or go to
http://ronwhite.yoursuccessstore.com
or call 877-929-0439.
2. Quotes of
The Week
BASEBALL
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the
very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience
is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run. -- Branch
Rickey
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. -- John Kruk
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did
it in one afternoon on the golf course. -- Hank Aaron
You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your
errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning
paper. -- Jane Goodsell
He could speak in eight languages, but he couldn't hit in any of them.
-- Ted Lyons, on Moe Berg
I see great things in baseball. It's our game -- the American game. It
will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a
larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous,
dyspeptic set. Repair those losses, and be a blessing to us. -- Walt
Whitman
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your
grandmother with her teeth out. -- George Brett
If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it. -- Dick Allen
I don't mind catching your fastball at all. Naturally, I'd want to have
a glove on in case you might be having an especially good day. -- Gene
Green, to pitcher Jim Brosnan
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's
life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering
if there is a man on base. -- Dave Barry
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About
the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels
instead of barracks. -- Bill Lee
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three
times out of ten and be considered a good performer. -- Ted Williams
3. Stay Focused on the Big Picture by Harvey Mackay
A reader of this column sent me an email recently, thanking me for a
column I had written on getting outside the box. She then told me how
she had lost focus for a while, but had turned things around. She
encouraged me to write a column on staying focused.
I immediately thought of my varsity golfing days at the University of
Minnesota many years ago. Back then The Saint Paul Open was one of the
top tournaments on the men's professional golf circuit. Prior to the
tournament, I had a chance to meet Gary Player when he was taking a
lesson from our team coach, Les Bolstad. Later that evening I went to
dinner with the world's future #1 player when he was still an unknown.
The following day at The Saint Paul Open, I saw Gary after he teed off
the first hole and ran up to him to say hi. I wanted to tell him what a
great time I had the night before. His steely eyes remained focused on
the fairway ahead and he never broke stride. "Harvey, please don't talk
to me. I must concentrate. I will see you when I'm finished."
I remember how devastated I felt, but I learned a valuable lesson on
focus. Many years later when he was world famous, my wife, Carol Ann,
and I ran into Gary and his wife in South Africa. I reintroduced myself
and reminded him of what happened on the golf course. Gary's wife told
me, "Don't feel bad. He doesn't even talk to me on the golf course."
That's the focus that it takes to do your best. If you have the ability
to focus fully on the task at hand, and shut out everything else, you
can accomplish amazing things.
Arnold Palmer, another golfing legend, recalled a tough lesson he
learned about focus in Carol Mann's book "The 19th Hole":
"It was the final hole of the 1961 Masters tournament, and I had a
one-stroke lead and had just hit a very satisfying tee shot. I felt I
was in pretty good shape. As I approached my ball, I saw an old friend
standing at the edge of the gallery. He motioned me over, stuck out his
hand and said, "Congratulations." I took his hand and shook it, but as
soon as I did, I knew I had lost my focus. On my next two shots, I hit
the ball into a sand trap, then put it over the edge of the green. I
missed a putt and lost the Masters. You don't forget a mistake like
that; you just learn from it and become determined that you will never
do that again." Trust me, your friends will understand!
A response Babe Ruth once gave to a reporter sticks in my mind. "How is
it," the Babe was asked, "that you always come through in the clutch?
How is it you can come up to bat in the bottom of the 9th, in a key game
with the score tied, with thousands of fans screaming in the stadium,
with millions listening on the radio, the entire game on the line and
deliver the game winning hit?" His answer, "I don't know. I just keep my
eye on the ball."
In other words… Focus.
How many times have you heard an athlete talk about focus? It's a topic
I also hear about frequently in business. The most common complaints?
Too many irons in the fire. Too many projects spinning at one time. Too
many interruptions. Too many phone calls. Too many emails. Too many
things to do. Too little time.
The late Peter Drucker, management consultant and author, observed,
"When you have 186 objectives nothing gets done. I always ask, 'What's
the one thing you want to do?' In Mexico they call me Senor Una Cosa."
(translation: one thing)
Decide what's most important. Make a list every day or every week and
prioritize your activities. Scale back the amount of time you spend on
meetings; they can be the biggest time-wasters of all. Learn to
delegate, and make sure all members of your team follow through on
assigned tasks.
Set aside a specific time of day to return phone calls and emails, and
keep distractions to a minimum. In other words, set rules about how
others use your time. And if you're not the boss, work with your
supervisor to make sure you agree on priorities.
Stay focused as best you can, and don't let things happen to you - not
when you can make things happen.
Mackay's Moral: The person who is everywhere is nowhere.
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5. My Next Memory AND Sales Seminar will be June 4-5, 2007 in North Carolina!
This is a new format for me AND I am REALLY
excited!! This seminar will NOT just be a memory seminar. It will be
sales training in the morning 3 hours each morning for a total of 6
hours. The memory training will be 3.5 hours each afternoon (or evening)
for a total of 7 hours.
Dates: Monday, June 4 and Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Where: Shell Island Resort
2700 North Lumina Avenue
Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480
910-256-8656
http://www.shellisland.com
When: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Session: The Proven System For Success In
Sales
11:45 am - 12:45 pm: Lunch (for Gold Members - Those who've purchased a
ticket to attend both the memory and sales training class -- at a
discount!!)
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Session: Memory Training
Regular Admission - $249* (Value $349)
* Students 10-22 are welcome to attend the memory session for free (no
free students in sales seminar)
Special Offer! Attend both the Proven Systems for Success in Sales
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