Ron White's Ezine
July 24, 2008
Issue 73
Welcome!
What a GREAT event we had in Anaheim on July 12th! John Maxwell, Denis Waitley, Jeffrey Gitomer, myself and a few other speakers delivered our best material and it was an incredible event! I hope you are able to attend the next SUCCESS Symposium!
Since you missed that event would you like me to come to YOU and speak at your next conference? I would love to! However, if it is in the next 6 weeks I can't. I am in Ohio this week, I return to Dallas for 10 days and speak 7 times in 10 days. Then I will be off to spend a week in Australia to speak at a conference August 9th. I will return to the USA and speak 12 times in 13 days before heading to speak in Bangkok and Malaysia for the second time in four months. Does that sound like a packed speaking schedule? Well it is and here is the point - if you would like me to speak for your event and it is occurring in the next 12 months we don't need to look at our schedules tomorrow, we need to have done it yesterday! Call or email me today.
I promise you that I will memorize up to 200 names before I go up to speak and then repeat those names first thing when up on stage. From there I will memorize a 40 digit number that the group creates and I NEVER see.
Then I will teach your group how to recall names, product knowledge, sales training, chapters of books and much more!
This is a FUN, professional and educational meeting. Let's look at our schedules TODAY!
Go for More this Week!
Ron White
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In This Issue.....
1. Leave the World A Bit Better By Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Problems Bring Lessons by Vic Johnson
4. A Winning Combination!
5. More Information
1. Leave the World A Bit Better By Ron White
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a poem on success. One of his measures of success in that poem was to, 'Leave the world a bit better.' That line has always stuck in my head. Emerson said you have succeeded if you leave the world a bit better. I have made that line part of my life philosophy. When the tide goes out there is a watermark where the water was. When the waters of life recede from the shore of my being and my heart pumps for the last time, my desire is that there will be a mark where I stood. My aim is that the mark will say, 'For some decades a man occupied this space who saw others more important than himself and
made the effort to leave the world a better place for them and those yet to come.'
Our society tells us that success is measured by bank accounts, power, beauty and wealth. These are often the result of hard work, luck or birth. They are not evil and I strive for some of them daily. However, they are not the mark I will measure the success of my life with.
So how do you do it? How do you 'leave the world a bit better?':
Give a percent of your income away to a charity or church. This makes your community better.
Save a percentage of your income to pass down to your family when you leave.
Volunteer your time for those who are less fortunate. Are you volunteering anywhere?
Mentor someone who needs a positive direction in life.
Follow and get involved in politics. Our laws and leaders will determine the future. You can have a hand in that future.
Or you can amass as much wealth as you can, spend it as fast as you can on the fading desires of your heart and seek to please you first. Our culture might tell you that this is success. Emerson tells us that it is not. I encourage you to realize that the waters of your life will eventually withdraw from the shore. When it does, will there be a watermark?
Ron White
2. Quotes of The Week
STEWARDSHIP
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves." -- Dale Carnegie
"If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed – when there is just a few." -- Jim Rohn
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -- Henry Van Dyke
"Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything." -- Benjamin Franklin
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." -- Helen Keller
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." -- Mickey Mantle
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson
3. Problems Bring Lessons by Vic Johnson (excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)
"As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances." - As A Man Thinketh
It has taken me a long time to be able to look at a problem I'm having as a necessary spiritual lesson. To be frank, I'm still not always really excited to be enduring the pain and frustration that negative circumstances usually cause. Some days I'd like to "play hookey" and skip the lesson. :-)
But as I look back at my life, it is easy to see that the times when my wisdom and understanding grew to new levels; those times when I approached becoming the person I long to be; it was always the times that followed negative circumstances. The greatest growth you're going to have is going to come from the negative circumstance you have today that sometimes seems too overwhelming, too big to scale.
Writing in Byways of Blessedness, James Allen is strong in his call for us to embrace our circumstances. "Let a person rejoice when he is confronted with obstacles, for it means that he has reached the end of some particular line of indifference or folly, and is now called upon to summon up all his energy and intelligence in order to extricate himself, and to find a better way; that the powers within him are crying out for greater freedom, for enlarged exercise and scope.
"No situation can be difficult of itself; it is the lack of insight into its intricacies, and the want of wisdom in dealing with it, which give rise to the difficulty. Immeasurable, therefore, is the gain of a difficulty transcended."
Maybe that explains why it sometimes seems that I can't shake a particular problem, or I have one that keeps rearing its ugly head. Instead of fighting it, I need to jump in and gain the insight and wisdom to handle it. Then it would be gone, and I would be ready for the next lesson -- only stronger, both in spirit and in wisdom!
And that's worth thinking about.
Vic Johnson
4. A Winning Combination!
Throughout history there have always been winning combinations -- a pair that just can't be beat and makes perfect sense!
Well, I've paired a winning combination of two of my best-selling products (what I offered at the July 12th Symposium) and I think you'll be pleased!
To learn more, visit
http://winningcombo.yoursuccessstore.com
5. More Information
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