Ron White's Ezine
September 16, 2009
Issue 103
Welcome!
I just returned from 10 days of speaking engagements in Australia. It was a great trip. I was excited to teach memory skills to my new friends down under.
In Brisbane, I shook the hands of 150 people during the day and then at night when I walked on stage I asked everyone that I had met and shaken hands with to please stand up. I then instructed them to sit down if I was able to recall their name. A few minutes later only two people remained standing. I got 148 names correct! It was a great way for me to demonstrate the power of the human mind if a person will just take the time to train it.
If someone’s memory is producing subpar results, it is usually simply a result of lack of training. One year ago, it took me five minutes to memorize a deck of cards. Today, I hold the record for the fastest to memorize a deck of cards in the United States.
After I left Brisbane, I spent three days in northern Australia and went SCUBA diving off the Great Barrier Reef. It was an introductory dive that didn't require certification. It was amazing to SCUBA dive and see the reef from an extraordinary perspective. However, I must admit, the first five minutes of the dive my heart was racing and I wanted out. I was getting a little claustrophobic and breathing very fast. Then I reminded myself to relax and convinced myself, logically, that this activity was very safe. I am glad I stayed in the water because it was an experience of a lifetime that I would have regretted missing.
This illustrates a great lesson about training your mind to do something new, such as getting good at recalling names (and you can), memorizing a deck of cards or even speed reading. At the start, it is going to be uncomfortable and tedious and you are just going to want to get out of there! But if you can get past the initial stage, a whole new world (just like the Great Barrier Reef) will open up to you.
My hope is that you allow me to be your guide as you open your eyes to this new world.
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Ron White
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In This Issue......
1. An Undisputed Advantage by Ron White
Sometimes success in life is a result of setting yourself apart from your competition or simply everyone else. There is one behavior that, without a doubt, will give you an advantage over those around you. I will allow Thomas Jefferson to share what that is. He once said,“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
Have you ever been in a stressful situation or in a storm of life in which you were not able to maintain your cool? It happens to all of us. Billy Joel puts it this way in his hit song Pressure:
But you will come to a place
Where the only thing you feel
Are loaded guns in your face
And you’ll have to deal with
Pressure
Jefferson and Joel are in agreement that you will have to handle pressure. Jefferson suggests that how you respond to the pressure can give you a distinct advantage over those around. Accepting the fact that you will encounter adverse situations, how do you prepare yourself to always remain cool?
You must run through this checklist before the moment of truth arrives, because under pressure, this list is clouded and feels miles away.
Remind yourself that your life has seen many challenges and that you worked through each one and are still standing today.
Remind yourself that you are not the first to encounter obstacles. Others have made it—and so can you.
Unless you are being attacked in a physical manner, never allow yourself to respond without knowing all the facts.
Again, unless being attacked in a physical manner, practice the Rule of Five: Slowly count to five to yourself before you respond.
Do not fear walking away from the table as you allow the issue to cool. Do not shirk from asking for help. A team is always stronger than an individual. The question is not: Will you encounter struggles in life? The question is: How will you respond? For a distinct advantage over others, remember the words of our third president and keep your head.
—Ron White
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2. Quotes of The Week
CHALLENGES
“Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.” —Denis Waitley
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” —Henry J. Kaiser
“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” —Arnold Palmer
“When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.” —Terry Bradshaw
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” —Albert Einstein
“There aren’t any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.” —William F. Halsey
“I will say this for adversity: People seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.” —Kin Hubbard
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” —Peter Marshal
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch—what makes you go beyond the norm.” —Cicely Tyson
“A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.” —Brian Tracy
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The walking of Man is falling forwards.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Realistically, the more problems we have, and the larger they are, the greater our value to our employer.” —Zig Ziglar
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” —Margaret Thatcher
3. Selecting the Right Mentor by Denis Waitley
Finding coaches and mentors is an important mission, and you will no doubt have several over the course of your life. It is critical that you choose them wisely. Your mentor is someone to whom you’ll be committing a great deal of time and attention, and who, ideally, will take a very focused interest in you as well.
The process of selecting a mentor begins, first of all, with a clear-sighted view of what your life’s goals are, both for your career and your personal life.
If you’re just starting out as an associate in a large law firm, you might choose one of the senior partners as your mentor, or perhaps a partner in another firm you’re familiar with. If you’re just starting a family, and you’re facing the lifestyle adjustments that kids require, your mentor could very likely be someone who is reaching the other end of this very exciting, but demanding, process. In any case, your mentors should be people whose experience can serve as a model for reaching your most significant goals in the most important areas of your life.
Selecting a mentor is not just a matter of finding someone you like or feel comfortable identifying with. Make sure that the mentors you choose have a genuine history of success. I’m continually amazed by the number of people who look to only superficially successful people as role models for achievement. Even experts can make conspicuous mistakes of judgment in this area. The next time you’re in a bookstore or library, take a look at the best-selling books on business and management from four or five years ago. There’s an excellent chance that some of the companies cited as models of efficiency are now out of business. I don’t bring this up to disparage anyone’s business expertise, but simply to point out the need for great care in selecting a coach whose success will stand the test of time.
In addition to selecting your coaches based on their ability to achieve goals similar to your own, choose mentors who, in the process, have overcome some of the same obstacles you’re facing. Ideally, a mentor really represents both what you want to become in a particular area of life and what you want to do. Seeing your mentors today is like seeing what you intend to be. The coach has arrived at or been to places similar to where you want to go.
Choosing a celebrity or public figure as a mentor is a very questionable decision. If at all possible, select a mentor with whom you can actually spend time and with whom you enjoy having conversations and exploring ideas.
Of course, you can have admired historical personages, authors, educators or artists as role models. If you discover someone with whom you feel a special affinity, make an effort to obtain everything that person has written or said. Really become a student of the person’s work and life. Don’t just admire him or her; genuinely learn from him or her, as I have learned from the life and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin.
One of the most interesting aspects of selecting a mentor is the fact that one can rarely separate people’s tangible achievements from the qualities of their character. More than their bank accounts or their real estate holdings, role models prove by the conduct of their lives that they’re worth emulating.
—Denis Waitley
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4. Surefire Success Secrets in Seven Powerful DVDs/CDs!
You don’t have to look far to find the secrets that will help you succeed in life.
In fact, surefire success secrets can be found in life’s simple pleasures, like America’s favorite pastime—baseball—or in the fascinating lives of U.S. presidents and Medal of Honor recipients.
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The series includes:
• Success Lessons from Medal of Honor Recipients
• How to Have a Winning Year
• How to Develop the Mind of Einstein
• Maximize Your Memory
• Success Lessons from Baseball
• Success Lessons from U.S. Presidents
• The 10 Commandments of Selling
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