Ron White's Ezine
May 14, 2008
Issue 68
Welcome!
In February I attended one of the most dynamic events of the year. It was the Success Symposium held in Dallas, Texas. I was honored to be in the speaking line up with John Maxwell, Denis Waitley, Robert Kiyosaki, Kim Kiyosaki and John Addison. Denis Waitley's Psychology of Winning is on my MP3 player and I have devoured his material for years...then to walk off stage and have him extend his hand and say, 'Great job' was surreal! However, this event wasn't only remarkable for me - it was magical for EVERYONE who attended.
The speakers delivered impactful and dynamite material. The attendees took notes, learned, grew, laughed, expanded their thinking, networked and made contacts that will catapult their business forever. There is no doubt that many had 'AH HAH!' moments in the middle of a session and those ideas will shift their lives and business dramatically. It was without question remarkable and I wish you had all been there.
There is some good news! We are having another Success Symposium July 12th in California. I will be there and speaking with Jim Rohn, Denis Waitley, Jeffrey Gitomer and John Maxwell among others. If you have read my
Ezine for a while you know I don't often come out and say, 'Do whatever you have to do, but BE THERE!'
In this scenario...I am being that strong and saying just that.
Right now, go to your calendar and see if July 12th is open. If it is, block it off and invest in a ticket TODAY before it sells out. Buy a ticket for you and one for another person that you want to impact.
I want you to find me at the event and tell me that you are THRILLED I was so strong about insisting you attend and that you are leaving with many money making ideas. I know you will. See you July 12th!
To learn more or to purchase tickets go to http://www.YourSuccessStore.com/Symposium
Go for More this Week!
Ron White
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In This Issue.....
1. No Room for Excuses by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Self-Knowledge: The Key to Preparing for Competition by Denis Waitley
4. Join me, Jim Rohn, Denis Waitley, John Maxwell, Jeffrey Gitomer and more...
5. More Information
1. No Room for Excuses by Ron White
'The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.' You have heard it a million times. However, my guess is that you have never heard it from the mouth of the 'rich'. Instead, this echo has most likely bounced to your ear with its origins being an excuse. That is right... an excuse. Excuses are what many use to pacify their guilt of not accomplishing what they are capable of.
I am not suggesting that wealth is success. My inference is that success is the progressive realization of predetermined worthwhile goals. It may be something as simple as raising a family.
What do these names have in common?
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
They were all President of the United States, right? They were all the most powerful man in the world at one point. However, I am looking for something else...
Richard Nixon... Nixon was born in the home his father built. He won an award from Harvard his senior year of high school. However, his family was unable to afford his leaving home for college. He instead attended Whittier College.
Gerald Ford... Ford was born as Leslie Lynch King, Jr. In 1913 his mother left her abusive husband and took her son to live with her parents. She met Gerald R. Ford, whom she married and gave her child his name Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. He was the only President to be adopted. Ford worked in his stepfather's paint and varnish store growing up. He coached boxing during college to afford his tuition.
Jimmy Carter... He was the first member of his family ever to go to college and his father was a peanut farmer.
Ronald Reagan... Son of an alcoholic traveling shoe salesman. He worked his way into show business by broadcasting baseball games. At forty, he was divorced and his career was at a dead end.
Bill Clinton... Born William Jefferson Blythe IV, his father (a traveling salesmen) died in an automobile accident three months before he was born. His mother married Roger Clinton and Bill took that name. Clinton grew up in a turbulent family. His stepfather was a gambler and alcoholic who regularly abused his wife, and sometimes Clinton's half brother Roger.
None of these men were born into wealth and prosperity, yet they each achieved the rank of most powerful person in the world by working hard and not making excuses. That is 5 out of the last 7 Presidents or 71% of Presidents in the last generation born into normal families who struggled. Yet, they refused to use that as an excuse.
It is true that these men were healthy and had no physical handicaps. However, I encourage you to visit
www.JohnFoppe.com and watch his video. This speaker proves that there is no room for excuses, regardless of your lot in life.
Life is too short to make excuses. Set your goals and pursue them. If you have been dealt a 'worse' hand than another, it may indeed be a gift that teaches you the value of hard work. Your story will be richer and your success sweeter when you achieve your dreams. Maybe one day I will cast a vote for you as President of The United States!
Ron White
'Do whatever you have to do, but BE THERE!'
Right now, go to your calendar and see if July 12th is open.
If it is, block it off and purchase a ticket TODAY before it sells out. Buy a ticket for you and one for another person that you want to impact.
Join me, Jim Rohn, Denis Waitley, John Maxwell, Jeffrey Gitomer and more July 12th for the next Success Symposium!
Then, sometime at the event, I want you to find me and tell me that you are THRILLED I was so strong about insisting you attend and that you are leaving with many money making ideas. I know you will. See you July 12th!
To learn more or to purchase tickets go to http://www.YourSuccessStore.com/Symposium
2. Quotes of The Week
JUST DO IT!
"Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now." -- Mark Victor Hansen
"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can." -- Richard Cushing
"Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words – 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars." -- Mickey Rooney
"... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." -- Ivan Turgenev
"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow." -- Khalil Gibran
"Ignore people who tell you 'you can't' or try to discourage you." -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"Every now and then, somewhere, some place, sometime, you are going to have to plant your feet, stand firm, and make a point about who you are and what you believe in. When that time comes, Pat, you simply have to do it." -- Lee Riley (father of Pat Riley, NBA coach)
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." -- Norman Schwarzkopf
"Stop stewing and start doing!" -- Denis Waitley
"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work." -- Mother Teresa
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt
3. Self-Knowledge: The Key to Preparing for Competition by Denis
Waitley
Self-knowledge has always been the key to preparing for competition. Knowledge of your attributes, abilities, interests, strengths, weaknesses, and traits is essential to riding the front end of the wave of change into the new century. To fully assess your own talents, realize that studies confirm that what we love and do well as children continues as our latent or manifest talent as adults.
Examination of your weekend or evening interests might reveal a gem of potential you can apply to your vocation. I strongly suggest you don´t unthinkingly relegate what you love to do for yourself solely to hobbies. You might make it, or at least integrate it into your life´s work.
The acquisition of knowledge, which is the new global power, is a life-long experience, not a collection of facts or skills. Not long ago, what you learned in school was largely all you needed to learn to secure a career. With knowledge expanding exponentially, this is no longer true. Hundreds of scientific papers are published daily.
Every thirty seconds, some new technological company produces yet another innovation. Your formal education has a very short shelf life. Life-long learning, once a luxury for the few, has become absolutely vital to continued success. Continue gaining expertise and avoid thinking like an expert.
Increase your reading by 100 percent. Decrease your television watching, and that of any children in your family by 50 percent. Surf the Internet and subscribe to book summaries, or download free chapters from different sources. By reading book summaries, you can gain the essence of all the top business books in a very brief period of time.
Knowledge is the new power. And literacy and learning are the doors to knowledge.
-- Denis Waitley
Join me and Denis Waitley on July 12th! See below for details or visit http://www.YourSuccessStore.com/Symposium for more information.
4. Join me, Jim Rohn, Denis Waitley, John Maxwell, Jeffrey Gitomer and more...
If you have read my ezine for a while you know I don't often come out and say,
'Do whatever you have to do, but BE THERE!' In this scenario...I am being that strong and saying just that.
Right now, go to your calendar and see if July 12th is open.
If it is, block it off and purchase a ticket TODAY before it sells out. Buy a ticket for you and one for another person that you want to impact.
Join me, Jim Rohn, Denis Waitley, John Maxwell, Jeffrey Gitomer and more July 12th for the next Success Symposium!
Then, sometime at the event, I want you to find me and tell me that you are THRILLED I was so strong about insisting you attend and that you are leaving with many money making ideas. I know you will. See you July 12th!
To learn more or to purchase tickets go to http://www.YourSuccessStore.com/Symposium
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