Ron White's Ezine
October 1, 2008
Issue 78
Welcome!
'Self trust is the first secret of success.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love this quote by Emerson. Why do so many sales professionals fail? A lack of self trust. Why do so many businesses and relationships fail? A lack of self trust.
Let's look at it this way. You are in sales and set a goal to make 80 calls tomorrow. At the end of the day you made 47 because you had call reluctance (#1 reason sales professionals fail) or you just got distracted. At the end of your day you are telling your subconscious mind, 'Wow! I can't even make 80 calls in a day.' You start to doubt yourself, lose trust in yourself and your confidence plummets. This applies to any area of life. You decide you are going to start working out, keep a clean office, be on time or set clearer boundaries in your relationships. Then you skip a few days of working out, your office goes to mess, you are habitually late and cross boundaries. Then what happens? You lose trust in yourself.
According to Emerson self trust is the first key to success. Why? Because it builds confidence when you do what you say you will do. One of the greatest action steps a business person can take to improve their productivity is to follow through on their decisions and goals. This follow through creates momentum and self trust. This self trust as Emerson points out is the first secret of success. When you set your goals and then don't achieve them, you are in dangerous territory and you begin to doubt yourself and lose confidence. A conflicted person begins to emerge who says one thing and does another. Even if the conflict is not noticed by the outside world, more importantly it is noticed by the inside world of the person.
Do you trust yourself? I mean really trust yourself? Emerson says this is the first secret of success and I believe him. If you set your goal for 80 calls tomorrow, make 81 not for the monetary reward but the psychological one.
Go for More this Week!
Ron White
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In This Issue.....
1. Free Time by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Set Up a Learning Resource at Home and at Your Place of Business with Both
Personal and Professional Development Materials by Denis Waitley
4. Train Your Mind To Work Like a Human Computer in Only 30 Days
5. More Information
1. Free Time by Ron White
Some time ago, my friends and I were having dinner. The topic of success came up and I remained silent. I wanted to hear what they had to say. Someone who had been my friend for over 20 years spoke to the group; however, I knew his words were meant for me. He boldly proclaimed, 'Success is all luck....luck...that is all it is!' He then looked at me as if to say, 'You are a lucky man and that is it.'
I didn't say a word, however, I confess that it hurt. He was one of my best friends and although it wasn't a direct quote-he was telling me that he didn't respect my success because it was all luck. In other words, he could have done the same if he was just as lucky.
I mulled this over for a few days and then let it go. What could I do?
Then about two weeks after that dinner, my truck window broke and I parked in his garage for the day to stay out of the rain. I was stuck at his home for six hours. During this six hours, I watched five of his friends come over and they all watched the comedy channel and consumed adult beverages for 5 hours. It was driving me up a wall! I wanted to go for a run, write, read a book, goal set, strategize or spend time with someone that I loved. Instead, I wasted 6 hours watching the comedy channel.
I am not suggesting that watching television or the comedy channel is a waste of time. Most certainly not. However, it was obvious that this was their daily routine. Then it hit me!
Success is not a result of luck. It is a result of how you spend your free time!
He and I both work hard, the difference is when my work day is done my free time is productive and his is not.
My 6 CD Memory in a Month program was created five years ago in my free time. Every month I get checks in the mail because of this program and I will never have to do a single bit of work again for it. Five years ago I did the work in my free time. Five years ago my friend was watching the comedy channel and today his mailbox is empty.
Success is a result of luck?...No, success is a result of how you spend your free time.
Ron White
Please use this link and take advantage of Ron's special offer this week on his Memory in a Month 6 CD program!
To order go to http://Memory.YourSuccessStore.com or call 877-929-0439.
*Also the first 100 to order receive a bonus copy of 22 Success Lessons From Baseball by Ron White plus receive 5 free gifts, including excerpt booklets (by Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar and Denis Waitley), and a Jim Rohn Sampler CD. Special offer good for a limited time
2. Quotes of The Week
RESULTS
"I want to demonstrate by my life and my results, not my talk, not my wishes, but by my results." -- Gerry Robert
"It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are." -- Brian Tracy
"Life asks us to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth grade chairs so small – so you won't fit in them at age twenty-five!" -- Jim Rohn
"As we act 'right,' our right results are guaranteed." -- Mark Victor Hansen
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big." -- Jim Rohn
"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser." -- Lou Holtz
"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service." -- Earl Nightingale
"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time." -- Chilon
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." -- Florence Shinn
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." -- Andrew Carnegie
"Well done is better than well said." -- Benjamin Franklin
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." -- Douglas Adams
"Most people seem to want tremendous improvement, instantly. But you'll probably find it's the little things you do that eventually add up to big results." -- Joel Weldon
"It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned." -- Fred A. Clark
3. Set Up a Learning Resource at Home and at Your Place of Business
with Both Personal and Professional Development Materials by Denis
Waitley
Every office conference, lunch, exercise, and recreation room should be filled with personal enrichment materials including videos, audios, books, magazines, newsletters, software, TV and internet programming.
Convert a special area of your home into a learning center, especially if you have children. The trend globally is to combine a coffee house like Starbucks, with bookstores like Barnes and Noble, to create a relaxing learning environment. In the twenty-first century, gaining knowledge will blend into our lives as part of our leisure time. There are several ways to create more of an ongoing learning environment at your place of business. Many companies are providing TV and internet access to personal development programming, asking employees to volunteer to read a specific trade or business magazine and clip or scan articles relevant to the organization. Regular e-mail dispersals are also popular.
In today's fast-forward, knowledge-based world, if you're not moving ahead you are falling behind.
Action Idea: Make two files in your computer: one for personal development and one for professional development. Download MP3 files, articles and e-mails that educate and inspire you in these files. You also can scan articles from magazines into these files. Look at these files at least once per week.
Also subscribe to internet based or TV based personal development programming, purchase CDs, DVDs and books for your personal and professional development library.
-- Denis Waitley
Add Ron White's Memory in a Month 6 CD program to your home or business "learning center". Click the link and take advantage of Ron's special offer this week on his Memory in a Month 6 CD program!
To order go to http://Memory.YourSuccessStore.com or call 877-929-0439.
*Also the first 100 to order receive a bonus copy of 22 Success Lessons From Baseball by Ron White plus receive 5 free gifts, including excerpt booklets (by Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar and Denis Waitley), and a Jim Rohn Sampler CD. Special offer good for a limited time
4. Train Your Mind To Work Like a Human Computer in Only 30 Days!
I'm a believer! I attended Ron's two day event and I actually amazed my kids and wife (not easily done, maybe never done!) by coming home and counting to 100 in Japanese, naming all 43 presidents and remembering names like never before. And I can still do all the above several weeks later!
But truly I wasn't trying to show-off, I just wanted to impress upon them why I want them to attend Ron's next event, and even better jump right into listening to his Memory in a Month CDs.
Whether it is memorizing (and truly learning) the Presidents, the states and capitals, the chemistry tables for science or an upcoming speech, I feel like Ron's program is so necessary for students. But equally, it is necessary for all us in the marketplace who need to recall product knowledge, remember names and faces as well information that we read and hear (and countless other things).
Please use this link and take advantage of Ron's special offer!
To order go to http://Memory.YourSuccessStore.com or call 877-929-0439.
*Also the first 100 to order receive a bonus copy of 22 Success Lessons From Baseball by Ron White plus receive 5 free gifts, including excerpt booklets (by Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar and Denis Waitley), and a Jim Rohn Sampler CD. Special offer good for a limited time
5. More Information
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