Ron White's Ezine
July 9, 2008
Issue 72
Welcome!
I am so excited! Next week I am going to New York City for the baseball All-Star game. I am excited for many reasons - there will be four Texas Rangers there that I can root for, it is the final year for the historic Yankee Stadium and hey...it's the ALL-STAR game!
Why do professional sports host All-Star Games? The major reason is that it generates a lot of revenue and marketing for the sport. There are a few other benefits and one of those reasons centers around RESPECT! R-E-S-P-E-C-T....find out what it means to me! Answer = A LOT!
One of the greatest motivators of people is respect. Conversely one of the greatest demotivators is a lack of respect. Respect comes in many forms - A pat on the back for a job well done, encouragement, listening, awards or even an All-Star game. In business make sure that you acknowledge those on your All-Star team with some sort of recognition. It inspires loyalty, inspires them to achieve even more and drives those not recognized to be recognized next time.
Whether it is your personal life or your business, implement the tool of respect and create an even more productive environment!
Oh... look for me during the game next Tuesday. I will be in the first row of the outfield in a Texas Rangers jersey. AND... I predict I will catch a Josh Hamilton home run!
Go for More this Week!
Ron White
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In This Issue.....
1. A Grenade, A Helmet And A Choice by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. The Two Choices We Face by Jim Rohn
4. Always hold your ground...
5. More Information
1. A Grenade, A Helmet And A Choice by Ron White
His name was Jason Dunham and he was a corporal in the US Marines. The story picks up with Jason as he was talking with the men in his unit. They wondered whether a person could jump on a grenade and survive by putting it under their helmet. Deep down they all most likely knew that it wouldn't work – yet on the streets of Baghdad soon all topics of conversation can become quickly exhausted, and hypothetical solutions to real life problems can pass the time.
Unfortunately for Jason Dunham, the circumstance that he had hypothesized about arrived just a few weeks later. However, fortunately for his unit Corporal Jason Dunham was there. In this life and death scenario there is no time to think. There is only time for fight or flight. Jason chose fight and performed above and beyond the call of duty. He threw his helmet and body over the grenade and gave his life for his friends. Jason was nominated for The Congressional Medal of Honor. He was twenty years old.
Your stance on political matters or world issues is irrelevant in this scenario. Jason did not do this for you, he did not do it for the people of Baghdad, he didn't do it for the US Government or a politician. He did it for the men beside him – period.
To give your life for your friends the greatest thing one person can do for another. It is also one of the rarest acts of civilization.
In 1981, shots rang out as bullets screamed through the air to pierce the flesh of the fortieth President of The United States. No sooner had the gun powder been ignited than
Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy stood up as straight as a board and extended his arms to make himself a large barrier between John Hinckley and President Reagan. While others ran for cover agent McCarthy stood looking directly as his potential death with firm resolve. Tim was shot square in the chest and believe it or not that was exactly his goal. As he positioned himself spread eagle to take a bullet for a man, an office and a nation others cowered in trembling fear. Because of amazing grace agent McCarthy survived.
What causes men and women to lay down their lives for another? It takes a lot. First and foremost it takes a realization that life isn't about you. It is about making a difference, making an impact and it is about giving.
Jason Dunham and Tim McCarthy were able to respond the way they did because:
• They decided how they were going to respond long before the event occurred.
• They were not selfish people – the farthest you could be from selfish as a matter of fact.
• They realized that life was not about them it was about making a difference – it was about others.
I hope with all my heart you are never placed in a situation where you have to choose between your life and those around you. Yet, everyday you are in situations where you have to make choices. You must decide right now how you will respond.
The lesson to extract from the lives of Corporal Dunham and Agent McCarthy is that of an overall attitude on life. That attitude simply put is that it is better to give than receive. It is honorable to view the lives and well being of others above yourself. If we can take any pearl of wisdom from the extraordinary lives and attitudes of these two men
it is that making an impact on the world is not always about recognition, power, money or personal gain. Sometimes the greatest success is one who gives himself up so others can succeed. That is the mark of the ultimate high achiever.
Decide today how you will respond in your moments of crisis - whether it is financial, personal or life and death. As you make your plan your actions, remember the selfless lessons of Corporal Dunham and Agent McCarthy.
Ron White
Always hold your ground...
In January of 1945, on a French battlefield during World War II,
United States 2nd Lieutenant Audie Murphy' s unit was attacked by six
tanks and waves of enemy infantry.
What happened next is the stuff of legends.
In the face of a seemingly insurmountable enemy and against all odds,
Audie Murphy grabbed a .50-caliber machine gun and, with bullets flying
past him, held his ground. His heroic actions saved the lives of the men
in his unit and earned him recognition as a Congressional Medal of Honor
recipient. What's more, Murphy, as countless other Medal of Honor
recipients before and after him, forged an epic legacy and left an
indelible success lesson from which we can all learn and benefit:
Always hold your ground.
I want to offer you a very special deal—only $19.97!—on one of my
favorite and most recommended DVD/CD programs: Success Lessons from
Medal of Honor Recipients.
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2. Quotes of The Week
CHARACTER
"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character." -- Grenville Kleiser
"Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do – show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum." -- Denis Waitley
"Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance." -- Charles H. Parkhurst
"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements." -- Sir Joshua Reynolds
"The highest qualities of character... must be earned." -- Lyman Abbott
"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." -- Proverbs 23:7, Bible
"Do what you know and perception is converted into character." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your ability to function well in the inevitable crisis is the true measure of the person you are." -- Brian Tracy
"If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I'd go with the moral principles." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." -- Andre Gide
"A man's life is interesting primarily when he had failed, for it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself." -- Georges Clemenceau
"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be defected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter." -- Henry Fielding
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." -- John Milton
"My preferred person today is one who is always aware of the needs of others, or their pain and fear and unhappiness, and their search for self-respect. I once liked clever people. Now I like good people." -- Soloman Freehof
"The highest reward for a man´s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." -- John Ruskin
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." -- Helen Keller
3. The Two Choices We Face by Jim Rohn
Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation.
And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice.
To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all.
Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can?
Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings.
Results are the best measurement of human progress. Not conversation. Not explanation. Not justification. Results! And if our results are less than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of whom and what they have become.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
4. Always hold your ground...
In January of 1945, on a French battlefield during World War II, United States 2nd Lieutenant Audie Murphy' s unit was attacked by six tanks and waves of enemy infantry.
What happened next is the stuff of legends.
In the face of a seemingly insurmountable enemy and against all odds, Audie Murphy grabbed a .50-caliber machine gun and, with bullets flying past him, held his ground.
His heroic actions saved the lives of the men in his unit and earned him recognition as a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
What's more, Murphy, as countless other Medal of Honor recipients before and after him, forged an epic legacy and left an indelible success lesson from which we can all learn and benefit: Always hold your ground.
I want to offer you a very special deal—only $19.97!—on one of my favorite and most recommended DVD/CD programs: Success Lessons from Medal of Honor Recipients.
www.YourSuccessStore.com/MedalOfHonor
Audie Murphy's story is just one of the electrifying accounts of real-life heroes from whom we can learn life's most significant success lessons. Among the others whose stories I tell are U.S. Navy Admiral James Stockdale, U.S. Army Sergeant John McVeigh, and U.S. Marine Corps PFC William Baugh.
It's my belief that by extracting the lessons of these heroic men and applying them to our own lives, we can multiply the success of our lives to parallel the success of a these incredible men.
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