Every year I make my baseball picks in spring training of who I think will be in the World Series. In 2006, I predicted the Tigers and was mocked by my friends until they almost won the World Series! My track record has been pretty good so I decided to announce my pick last year in my Ezine and when I announced a team that had not made the playoffs in twenty years (Brewers) many of you suggested I needed a straight jacket, and to tell you the truth I was a little nervous. Yet, in the last week of the season the Brewers were fighting for a playoff spot. They didn't make it but they still did well enough to make my pick look like a good one.
This year... well... my surprise pick is the Kansas City Royals... and for the record while this announcement is being made after 10 games, the pick was actually made on opening day and I have the betting slip to prove it! Do the Royals have the best chance to win the World Series?... No I don't think they do, however, I believe like the Tigers in 06 and the Brewers last year they will surprise a lot of folks and if they do win it all... I will be happy camper!
Now, before I lose all you non-baseball fans... I always pick a long shot at the beginning of the year because it is more fun than picking the Red Sox or Yankees. But I also pick a long shot because I believe ANY team can win it all as I also believe that ANYONE can win in the game of sales whether they are 'the sure thing' or a 'long shot.'
* In baseball, the teams that win master the fundamentals. In sales, don't overcomplicate your presentation...keep it simple.
* In baseball, when a team's starting pitching is good the teams are good. In sales, it is important how you start. Ask questions at the beginning of your presentation to engage your prospect and catch their attention with your professionalism.
* In baseball, you must keep your eye on the ball. In sales, keep your eyes on your goals.
* In baseball, even the players making $25 million per year have a coach. In sales, find a mentor or coach to learn from.
I believe any team can win and this year I am pulling for the Royals (and of course my beloved Texas Rangers). I also believe that you can win whether you are a long shot or a sure thing. So let's revisit this prediction in October and in the meantime... the national Anthem is over and you are on deck. Batter up and PLAY BALL!
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Ron White
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In This Issue.....
1. 3 Ounces by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. If Only... by Jeff Olson
4. Ron's Back!! 2 Day Memory Seminar June 4th and 5th with the World's Foremost Memory Expert Ron White
5. More Information
1. 3 Ounces by Ron White
I love baseball.
I love going to a game alone, with friends or watching it on TV. I can talk baseball for hours or even reading about it is interesting for me. Therefore, it should be no surprise that I play on a softball team. I am a decent fielder; however, I take tremendous pride in my hitting. One season there was only one at bat that I did not get on base. In other words, I either received a walk or made a hit 29 out of 30 at bats. At the risk of sounding boastful that is an extremely impressive statistic!
However, as sometimes occurs in every aspect of life, I went into a slump the very next season. During this season, I went 6 consecutive at bats without a hit or a walk. I even struck out once swinging! It was very frustrating for me. I quickly became the worst hitter on the team. I was embarrassed and didn't know what to do and then I remembered Ernie Banks....
Ernie played baseball in the 1950s and he lightened his bat by 3 ounces. He went from hitting 19 homes runs to 45 home runs all because of 3 ounces! So I took a cue from Ernie Banks and that next season I lightened my bat by 3 ounces. It was AMAZING! I began clobbering the ball all over the field. I finished the season on a hitting tear.
How much is 3 ounces? Very little... but a lot. Is your life in a slump? If it is, my guess is not because you need a major overhaul. Ninety-five percent of the time, dramatic changes can be seen with just minor tweaking. The difference between $50,000 and $500,000 a year may be the result of minor improvements. If you are not getting your desired result... ask yourself, 'Is there anything that I can change just a little in my daily routine to see dramatic results?' Perhaps, a 20 minute daily workout, better time management reading a book a week or some other idea.
Sometimes a small change is all that it takes. You may be surprised how much 3 ounces is!
Ron White
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2. Quotes of The Week
THE SLIGHT EDGE
"Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. -- Paul J. Meyer
"Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results." -- Brian Tracy
"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day." -- Jim Rohn
"Everyday do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow." -- Doug Firebaugh
"Progress, however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step." -- Samuel Smiles
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller." -- Paul Klee
"There is no sudden leap to greatness. Your success lies in doing, day by day. Your upward reach comes from working well and carefully." -- Max Steingart
"Where many people go wrong in trying to reach their goals is in constantly looking for the big hit, the home run, the magic answer that suddenly transforms their dreams into reality. The problem is that the big hit never comes without a great deal of little hits first. Success in most things comes not from some gigantic stroke of fate, but from simple, incremental progress." -- Andrew Wood
"The principle of competing is against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before." -- Steve Young
"Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up." -- Edward S. Finkelstein
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Edison
"The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit." -- Wayne Dyer
3. If Only... by Jeff Olson
"You're lookin' good, sir, lookin' good."
The shoeshine woman was grinning at me. Another customer lost in his early morning thoughts. And another job well done. I looked down: I could see my reflection in my shoes.
Indeed I am. Lookin' good... thank you. Thanks very much.
I paid her, gave her as big a tip as I could without (I hoped) having her feel I was being patronizing, and walked away with clean shoes and a heavy heart.
It had taken many years, but I was fortunate enough to have found my way out of my beach bum career. I was no longer cutting the greens of other people's leisurely pursuits. I had found my way to a good life.
She was right; for me, things were lookin' good, sir, lookin' good.
But why the beach bum and not the shoeshine woman?
While my shoes had been getting a shine, the airport had grown busier. I now walked through a growing throng of travelers as I worked my way toward my gate. I noticed all the faces filing past me. Hardly anyone was smiling. Most of my fellow travelers were trudging with their heads bowed down. I saw bored expressions. Vacant. Porch light's on, dog's barking, but nobody's home.
Everyone looked so tired. Failing is exhausting.
I hear angry words.
I stopped for a cup of coffee and heard a young couple arguing with each other. A burly man scolded his young son to the point of tears. A heavy woman complained about the service, then the prices, then her food, and then started back in on the service again. The other people in line nodded their heads. A few joined her in a chorus of negativity.
Why is everyone so... down? Everything these people need to know to change their lives for the better is already available. All the information they could possibly need to put them on a path of extraordinary success and fulfillment is out there, in books and tapes, videos and workshops. There are people to help them - rich, living resources to guide them, be their mentors, teachers, coaches and allies.
I knew that the difference between who they were and who they could be wasn't based on any lack of good information. It was all already available.
But why, if the information is all there, all the resources are there, and these people really do want to succeed, then why aren't they doing it?
I looked around the airport as the early morning rush hour swelled its ranks of busy, hurrying, scowling, unhappy people shambling past with no spark in their faces, no bounce in their step. I wished I could somehow address them all, that I could touch all their lives with my silent soliloquy.
The problem, I shouted out in my head, is that you don't have a way to process the information. There's no framework in place for you to take in all the extraordinary insight that's out there and put it to work in your life.
If only you were aware of the Slight Edge. If only you knew what it was doing in your life and how easy it is to have the Slight Edge working for you - instead of against you.
If only you were making the right choices, doing those simple, little disciplines that would change your life for the better forever... where would you be five years from today?
If only you learned to recognize the Slight Edge...
If only...
But it was only in my head. Not a soul heard my words... nobody, that is, but me.
That day, on the plane, I started writing this book.
Jeff Olson
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• Forget names of clients and lose referrals and sales
• Go blank in the middle of a sales presentation and lose sales
• Invest money in seminars, books and CDs and can't recall the info
• Forget to call clients and prospects back and lose business
• Don't have the ability to talk without notes and pass up opportunities to speak and promote their business
• Can't recall competitors' product knowledge and fail to close deals
• Have brilliant money making ideas that slip their mind never to be realized
• Fail to build relationships with clients when they can't recall kids names, birthdays and spouse names.
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