Ron White's Ezine
April 30, 2008
Issue 67
Welcome!
I just returned from the most incredible weekend in Arizona. I was speaking at Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad conference and it was off the charts GREAT! I have been speaking for 17 years, and I travel around the world speaking at conferences and this one was truly incredible. To be called on stage by Robert is an experience that I will never forget. Then to hear him say from stage on multiple occasions over the three days, 'It is just like Ron White says....' WOW! What a thrill for me! I learned so many things from this event and I am excited to share a particular lesson.
Robert set up 30 miniature golf holes in the room and told us to bring in cash and then divided us into 30 teams of 4. The first night we bet $50 on the games and it was a fun time of practice. Then he brought in a professional golfer and the golfer gave us some tips and Robert told us to practice Friday night and Saturday morning because we would be betting $350 each on the contest Saturday night. This means there was $42,000 on the line! Now here is the catch...how could we practice? We didn't have clubs, balls or a hole in our hotel room. However, we did have our imaginations and visualization. My team met the first night and for 30 minutes we stood in a circle with out eyes closed and practiced together! We had no clubs in our hands! However, in our minds we did! The next morning we all got up and practiced again (in our minds), at lunch we practiced again with visualization.
It was AMAZING everyone in the room improved dramatically overnight and the practice had only taken place in our minds. The lesson I took
away was that visualizing yourself accomplishing your goal actually programs you for success. If you can visualize yourself succeeding you are actually getting your mind comfortable with the idea of success and that is often a reason many fail because they are not comfortable with the idea of success.
I took so many valuable nuggets from this conference and it was an honor for me to contribute as a speaker to Robert's event. I had a great time and had to share this quick lesson I learned.
Go for More this Week!
Ron White
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In This Issue.....
1. Does Speed Reading Have a Direct Correlation to Income? by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Postcards from My Son by Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones
4. Leaders are Readers!
5. More Information
1. Does Speed Reading Have a Direct Correlation to Income? by Ron White
It has been said that standard education will get you jobs, and self-education will make you fortunes. This is no doubt true, and I believe that reading is a key skill necessary to self-education. Statistics say the average CEO in America reads 4-5 books per month while the average American reads 1 book per year! This same statistic goes on to say that 60% of those average Americans don't even get past the first chapter in that one book! You may shrug your shoulders and say – okay big deal – so what? I am not a reader and why should that bother me?
Whether it should bother you or not is for you to decide. I simply share the facts with you. So here is another interesting fact: The average CEO of a
Fortune 500 company will earn an average of 536 times the salary of the average employee of the company he runs. This means that the employee of that company will work for a year and a half to equal the salary of the CEO for one day! What an extremely amazing and true statistic! Now, I am not going to suggest to you that the only difference between the CEO and the average employee is that the CEO reads a lot of books and the employee doesn't, however, I will suggest to you that is one of the major differences.
Now, if it is true that knowledge and even reading has a correlation to income, and I believe that it does, then wouldn't it be logical to conclude that it is in our benefit and interest to learn to read faster.
So the good news is that you can learn to read faster. However, the more important factor here is that you can read faster WITH comprehension. You see if you simply read faster but do not comprehend or recall what you have read, then what have you gained? Not only is speed reading with comprehension and retention possible for the human mind, you'll be glad to learn it really is not a tough chore. The challenge is in learning the system. Because we know your brain is very systematic, then we can actually train it to read faster. Thomas Jefferson said that if we do everything that we are capable of we would truly astound ourselves.
The human mind is the greatest computer ever created. Nothing in the world will ever compare to it. It is a truly phenomenal machine that, when fed, will respond with results that will astound you. Benjamin Franklin told us that if we take the pennies from our pockets and put them in our heads, our heads will then fill up our pockets once again. This is so true. The person who invests time educating himself will reap a lifetime of extra knowledge, fun and income.
So let's do what Franklin suggested and spend our pennies on books. As we read these books faster and faster and gain more and more knowledge, we'll look back in amazement as our knowledge and quality of life increases. By increasing your reading speed, you are doing just one of the things you are capable of. My hope is that it will spark a fire in you to learn even more and in doing so develop and use more of your potential. Do this by continually learning and feeding the flames with information, knowledge and action.
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 World 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. To learn more about Ron's best-selling Speed Reading - a Systematic Plan to Read Faster and Retain More! scroll down to #4 below or go to
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2. Quotes of The Week
LEARNING/EDUCATION
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." -- Henry Ford
"Success is a process that continues not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned." -- Denis Waitley
"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts." -- Rene Descartes
"Education is, after all, a serious business. Its lifeblood is standards. If there are no standards, how do we call something higher education?" -- William J. Bennett
"I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There's enough information on those subjects to keep a person studying forever." -- Bob Proctor
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." -- Derek Bok
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." -- Winston Churchill
"There in an immense ocean over which the mind can sail, upon which the vessel of thought has not yet been launched… Let us haul it over the belt of land, launch on the ocean and sail outwards. There is much beyond all that has ever yet been imagined." -- Richard Jefferies
"In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." -- Eric Hoffer
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." -- James A. Garfield
"I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." -- Rudyard Kipling
"The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have, or do." -- Brian Tracy
"One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new." -- Harvey Mackay
"The more you study, the more you find out you don't know, but the more you study, the closer you come." -- Cozy Cole
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." -- Benjamin Franklin
"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around." -- Jim Rohn
3. Postcards from My Son by Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones (Excerpted from Jim Rohn's 2001 Weekend Event DVD/CD
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My favorite saying about your associations and my way of saying it is, "You are the same today as you're going to be in five years except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read." Hang around thinkers; you'll be a better thinker. Hang around givers; you'll be a better giver. Hang around workers; you'll be a better worker. Hang around a bunch of thumb sucking, complaining, griping boneheads; and you will be a better thumb sucking, complaining, griping bonehead.
When my son was your age, I said, "Jerry, do you want to have a car when you're sixteen?" "Yes." "Do you want me to help you buy that car?" "Yes sir, dad." "Alright, son, we're going to do it, but the free ride's over. No more allowance. I'm going to give you a way to make a lot of money. Here is the deal. I am going to pick out books for you to read. There will be motivational books, history books, inspirational books; and every time I give you a book, you give me a book report. Every time I get a book report, I'll put money in your car fund. Another book report; more money in the car fund. In two years if you read in style, you'll drive in style. But if you read like a bum, you're going to drive like a bum."
Overnight he developed a fantastic hunger for reading. Now the first book I had him read was Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Now the first day he came down and said, "Dad, dad, there's a whole chapter in here on smiling and shaking hands." And he shook my hand, shook my hand - first sign of life in fourteen years. Woohoo! And he smiled at me. Then I had him read a book named Joshua in the Old Testament on discouragement. And we were going to Sunday school one week, and I said, "Jerry, how are you getting along with Joshua?" He says, "Dad, dad." He hit my leg. Imagine that, he hit my leg. And he said, "Everybody ought to have to read that book." That was a sign he was beginning to think about somebody other than himself.
Well, he read 22 books. Did he buy a car? No. He kept the money, used my car and my gas. Now but wait a minute. Don't laugh. It was worth it. Then he went off to college, and I got one of the greatest experiences of my life. And the last chapter of my book "Life is Tremendous" is about Jerry Jones (my son), and there is the reading contract to negotiate with your dad to get it in writing, so he can't change his mind. So Jerry goes off to college and he writes me a "Dear Dad" postcard every day for four years. You know what I used to do when I would get some of the cards? I would put my head on my desk and cry. Do you know why? He was thinking thoughts that I never dreamed a young person could think. Now he didn't have the full meaning of them, but he had read and he had the thoughts in his mind. So I would like to read you a couple cards from college to me.
"Dear Dad, It's tremendous to be able to know that when you are in a slump, just as a baseball player will break out in time, so will you break out of yours. Yes, time really cures things. Like you said, you don't lose any problems, you just get bigger and better ones, tremendous ones. Tremendously, too. Jerry"
"Dear Dad, Just started reading a hundred Great Lives. Thanks for what you said in the front. The part that every great man never sought to be great. He just followed the vision he had and did what had to be done. Love, Jerry."
"Dad, I just got done typing up little quotes out of the Bible and Napoleon Hill, so everywhere I look, I see them. When people ask me what they are, I tell them they are pinups. Tremendously."
"Dad, I am more convinced than ever that you can do anything you want to. You can beat anyone at anything just by working hard. Handicaps don't mean anything. Because often people that don't have them have a bad attitude and don't want to work."
"Dad, nothing new. Just the same old exciting thought that we can know God personally and forever in this amazing life."
"Dad, when you're behind two papers in the fourth quarter and you're exhausted from the game, you have to make up a set of downs in order to stay in the game, and you get up to the line and you see two, 250 pound tests staring you in the face, it sure is exciting to wait and find out what play the Lord will call next."
Well, the power of books. Now here is another one. Sammy is my nine year old grandson. I'd like to share something that I hope your dads will get for you. So Father's Day a few years ago, I'll just read you a paragraph that I wrote to Sammy on reading.
"My dear Sammy, each word in this letter is bathed with my love and prayers for you. As you get older, you will discover that your mind doesn't always keep pace with your body. The food you eat can nourish your body, but the food you feed your mind and heart determines your good as a person. I am going to share a few principles I pray you will commit to memory. I could share many more, but I have tried to select ones that I wish I could have begun working on earlier in my life. Read, read, read, read. A proper diet is good for your body, and the best books are good for your mind. Your life will be determined by the people you associate with and the books you read. You will come to love many people you will meet in books. Read biographies, autobiographies and history. Books will provide many of the friends, mentors, role models and heroes you will need in life. Biographies will help you see that there is nothing that can happen to you that wasn't experienced by many who used their failures and tragedies and disappointments as stepping stones for more tremendous lives. Many of my best friends are people I've never met – Oswald Chambers, George Mueller, Charles Spurgeon, A.W. Tozer, Abraham Lincoln, Jean Gietzen, hundreds of others. Don't read the Bible, but instead study it. Digest it. Memorize it. Realize that God's greatest gift for our time on earth is His word. Well, know the word…"
Happy Reading!
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones shared this at the Special Teenager Session held during the 2001 Jim Rohn Weekend Event. To order this incredible program that includes the complete Jim Rohn two day and an additional 9 hours and 8 bonus sessions; including two VIP lunches, a Teenager Session, the Platinum Mastermind Session, VIP Breakfast with Tony Jeary, 6 guest speakers and 9 bonus interviews (21 hours total) go to
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