Ron White's Ezine
March 18, 2009
Issue 90
Welcome!
A few weeks ago I announced to you that I was preparing for the USA Memory Championship. It is with great relief and satisfaction that I share this news with you:
I WON! I am now the 2009 USA Memory Champion! In the process of winning the competition, I set two new national records, the first by memorizing a deck of cards in 1 minute and 27 seconds and the second by memorizing a 167-digit number in 5 minutes.
On November 30th of last year, I wrote down my top three goals:
No. 1 - Memorize a deck of cards in 1 minute 30 seconds
No. 2 - Memorize a 167-digit number in 5 minutes
No. 3 - Win the National Championship!
Then I set out on the most intense and focused training schedule of my entire life.
At the time, these goals were HUGE for me. I had never been under 4 minutes with a deck of cards and nowhere near 167 digits. I worked with former U.S. Navy SEAL TC Cummings to develop my mental toughness and began an intense training regimen. I got to the point where I could memorize a deck of cards in 2 minutes and 5 seconds . . . under water! I ran through a deck of cards 1,116 times and a string of 175-digit numbers 640 times (that is 112,000 digits!) in the 90 days before the competition. This training schedule had me memorizing cards and numbers up to seven hours per day. Yet, just a little over a week ago, when they handed me the trophy and I was the last man standing out of 53 competitors, it was all more than worth it. I achieved the largest business goal of my life, and the effort I put into achieving my stated goal made the reward that much sweeter.
Listen to this next part closely. Last year, it took me 5 minutes to memorize 23 playing cards in order.
This year, I set a new national record by doing a whole deck in 1 minute and 27 seconds.
Why?
Because I investigated how to do it and I trained. My message to you is simple: if you put in the effort, you can improve your memory beyond your wildest imagination.
Stop saying that you have a bad memory! The condition of your memory is a choice, not a sentence handed down from a judge. You can change it. You may not have designs on setting national records, and training your memory for seven hours a day may not be realistic. However, your goal may be to remember names, improve grades or give speeches without notes. With these goals, 10 minutes a day for a month is all that is necessary. To quote a movie, “Help me...help you.’ I can get you to this level, and all you need to do is give me 10 minutes a day. See below for information on my best-selling Memory in a Month.
Go for More this Week!
Ron White
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In This Issue.....
1. You Need More Weight by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. The Secret of Your Subconscious by Brian Tracy
4. Train Your Mind to Work Like a Human Computer in Only 30 Days!!
5. Book 2009 U.S. Memory Champion Ron White to Speak to Your Group!
6. More Information
1. You Need More Weight by Ron White
How do you build muscle?
If you answered "exercise," then you are partially right. For the most part, exercise is not what builds muscle. Exercise maintains the muscle you have already built, yet it only actually builds muscle when that exercise goes into uncharted territory.
"You need more weight."
That is one of my best friend's favorite things to say when we work out. If I am throwing up 225 pounds on the bench press and there is no struggle, he is the first to either add more weight or demand reps. I used to say, "No man, I want to control this weight first. I want to do eight solid reps of 225 before I move on to something else." His reply would be, "Are you here to build muscle or maintain what you have?"
My particular goal at the time was to build muscle, so I would (knowing he was right) reluctantly say, "Build muscle." His matter of fact retort was, "Okay, then you need more weight or more reps – maybe both."
You see, when lifting weights your muscle is built when it goes beyond its comfort zone or literally stretches beyond what you have done before. If I had lifted six reps and I was spent – I also knew that there was no way my set was over. Just as I am about to give up, I hear the voice spotting me blurt out, "One more… come on… it is all you… one more… you got it… push it up." My friend, Brian, will consistently push me to do one more than I would if he wasn't there, and that is why when I work out with Brian my muscles are consistently in the growth zone.
If you are doing a set of 10 reps and are spent – you will get 90% of your growth if you do an 11th or 12th rep. The first 10 are maintaining what you have. The final two are the growth reps - these are the reps where you stretch yourself.
I have found that success in life is very similar to building muscle in the gym. If you are doing what you are comfortable with or can do easily, you never will grow. You will never expand to reach your full potential. Growth only occurs in life when you are pushing yourself to something new. This could mean learning a foreign language, learning to play an instrument, conquering your fears or pursuing your life-long dream of building a business, writing a play, authoring a book or talking to people that you normally would shy away from.
Growth in life is going to come when you are pushing yourself to lift the weights of life that you can only lift with a spotter. This means that you should not be afraid to team up with others and rely on them in your effort to grow. If you are going to build muscle in the gym you are going to need to do two things: #1 Lift more weight; #2 Have a spotter. The answers for success in life are very similar. Sometimes a spotter in life could be a personal life coach. There is absolutely no doubt that they will push you to lift more weight and be there to spot you when you feel that you can't get the weight off your chest.
Go for more weight this week and get yourself a spotter!
-- Ron White
Build more mind muscle with the help of 2009 U.S. Memory Champion Ron White! He can help you to train your mind to work like a human computer in only 30 Days! For details:
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2. Quotes of The Week
Thoughts/Thinking
"All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures." -- Brian Tracy
"Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem." -- Stephen Covey
"It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting." -- Millard Fuller (founder of Habitat for Humanity)
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." -- James Allen
"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave." -- Andrew Carnegie
"Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought." -- Napoleon Hill
"Use your body right: warm it up before you put it under strain. Use your mind right: psyche it up before you put it under strain." -- Tom Hopkins
"Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny." -- David O. McKay
"The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good." -- Carl Sagan
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle
"Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become – the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life." -- Mark Victor Hansen
"The biggest lesson I have ever learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives." -- Dale Carnegie
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -- Socrates
"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." -- Denis Waitley
3. The Secret of Your Subconscious by Brian Tracy
One Thought at a Time
The incredible thing about your subconscious mind is that it cannot tell the difference between something that you vividly imagine—such as a goal, a hope or a dream—and a real experience. For example, if you go to an automobile dealership and take your dream car for a drive, and, as you drive along, you imagine you already own that car, and you create the feeling of enjoyment that would accompany your being the proud possessor of that beautiful machine, your subconscious mind simply accepts that the car belongs to you. It doesn´t argue; it doesn´t complain; it doesn´t try to change your instructions. It simply tries to make your instructions a reality.
Visualize What You Really Want
Think of your subconscious mind as a photo lab and your conscious mind as a camera, or a photographer. Your conscious mind takes pictures of what you want and passes the film to the photo lab, your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind then develops the pictures and passes them back up to your reality. The photo lab doesn´t argue with you over the content of the film that you sent to it. It simply develops the photographs exactly as you saw them through the lens of your mind´s eye.
Design Your Dream Home
Does visualization work? Well, here´s an exercise that has worked for me and might work for you.
Everyone I know wants to have his “dream home.’ The first problem with obtaining a dream home is that most people have never even sat down to think about what it would look like.
Many years ago, when my wife, Barbara, and I were going through financial difficulties, we began putting together a composite of our dream home. We subscribed to magazines full of beautiful pictures and descriptions of lovely homes for sale. We cut out pictures and descriptions that were consistent with what we were looking for. We discussed our dream home at great length. We went to open houses in the best neighborhoods in the city. We looked at beautiful, expensive homes and at the details and furnishings in them. We read Architectural Digest and House Beautiful. We eventually came up with a mutually agreed on composite of what our dream home would look like.
Take Action on Your Dreams
Within a year after beginning this exercise, we moved from a rented home to a beautiful home that we had purchased. It wasn´t quite what we had in mind, but we both recognized at the time that it was merely a stepping-stone to what we really wanted. A year later, after looking at 150 houses in different cities, we walked into a home that was for sale, took one look around and, without speaking, both knew that we had found it. This was the home that we had been looking for.
Be Prepared to Pay the Price
It cost twice as much as we ever had imagined paying for a house, and it required a good deal of renovation to make it conform to the mental pictures we had developed. Nonetheless, we bought it, renovated it, repainted it, furnished it and landscaped the grounds exactly as we had imagined. And it all began to come together after we had carefully crafted a clear mental picture of what it would look like when it was done.
Be Clear About What You Want
What is your mental picture of your dream house or dream car, or dream vacation or relationship? When you are clear, your subconscious will bring it into your life.
Action Exercises
Here are three things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action:
First, begin today to design your dream house. Be crystal clear about every detail and keep feeding the picture into your subconscious mind every day until it becomes a reality.
Second, refuse to imagine or visualize a problem or situation that you don´t want to come true. Your subconscious mind develops whatever pictures you supply it - so be careful.
Third, cut out pictures of things you want in your life and look at these pictures carefully, taking in every detail. You´ll be amazed at what starts to happen.
-- Brian Tracy
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4. Train Your Mind to Work Like a Human Computer in Only 30 Days!!
Would you like to be able to recall names and faces, recall information from books you read and improve your grades and study skills? In just 10 minutes a day for 30 consecutive days, you can transform your mind from forgetful to unbelievable!
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