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Ron White's Ezine
April 29, 2009
Issue 93
Welcome!
About six months ago, I walked into my dry cleaners. It was the middle of a busy day and I wasn't focused on anything but getting in and out as fast as possible. As I set my clothes on the counter, the dry cleaner said, "Hello, Mr. White, you look busy today." Dale Carnegie says that a person's name is the sweetest sound to their ear, and it sure did cause me to pause for a moment before I replied, "Yes, yes I am." It then hit me....I don't know HIS name and I am the memory guy. Just as I was looking around for clues to his name another customer walked in and this customer was also greeted by name. I don't know why I had not noticed this before this day, but Nick (I later asked his name) greets EVERY customer by name!
Nick and his wife are immigrants from Africa and are of Indian decent. They are running a booming business because of Nick's attention to each customer. I always marvel at how he greets every customer by name as they walk in the door and I recently complimented him on this. He smiled and said, "Yes, my customers are very loyal to me because of this. Some have moved 20 miles away, but still drop their clothes off here on their way to work." Nick and I have become good friends and often talk about our businesses when I drop off my clothes. That friendship all started because he took the time to remember a name. You can know all the fancy sales closes, be able to figure out what personality type your client is and have the most detailed business plan, but you will lose sales every day to the Nicks of the world who just remember people's names. Don't overcomplicate your business or the sales process. It is about relationships.
In Lake Tahoe last month, I memorized 230 names in 90 minutes. I can teach you to do this as well...if you let me. The $79 investment for my mind-expanding Memory in a Month program is miniscule compared to the impact it will have on your business. Oh, and if you are ever in Euless, Texas, you might drop off your clothes at the cleaners at Mid Cities Drive and Fuller Wiser Rd. You will be impressed. Oh, and be prepared to wait in line to do business with Nick. There is always a line!
Go for More this Week!
Ron White
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In This Issue......
1. Good Game by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Paying the Price by Denis Waitley
4. Ron White's Masterful Memory in Action . . .
5. You're Invited to U.S. Memory Champ Ron White's Memory Seminar!
6. More Information
1. Good Game by Ron White
I was eight years old. Looking back I remember walking across the baseball diamond of a little league field and forming a line to pass the team that we had just played. The drill was to shake their hands and say, "Good game!"
I learned something at the age of eight. It is a lot easier to do that when you win!
When you lose, you have a tendency to slap the hand - instead of shake it - and look at the ground instead of the eyes. This is not only true at eight, but it is true for adults as well. A few years ago, I played 16 games in a softball league. You know you are on a bad softball team when motivational speaker, Ron White, is the stand-out superstar of the team! We lost 15 games in a ROW! It was humiliating. During the age-old, "Good game" handshake after each loss, I made a point to look each player in the eye and shake, not slap, the hand. I did this because I knew that when I was eight years old I couldn't do it. I couldn't look my opponents in the eye and congratulate them on a good game. Somehow I took the loss as a hit on my self-worth and felt my self-confidence had been slapped, therefore I did what most eight-year-olds do and I slapped the opponent's hand, not giving the satisfaction of a shake. I was wrong at the age of eight. I'm happy today as an adult that I have learned this lesson, and the lesson is: There is something to be said for losing well.
In 1960, Richard Nixon could have contested the close presidential election. He didn't. He lost well and was elected a decade later to the same office. A few years ago, John Thune lost a razor thin election in South Dakota. He could have contested the election. He didn't. He lost well and eventually won a Senate seat.
In 2000, John Ashcroft lost a Senate race to a woman who was standing in for her husband who passed away months before. He could have contested. He didn't and became attorney general.
Whether it is a baseball game, office promotion or political race, you can tell a lot about a person by how they handle defeat. The individual who handles defeat as a minor setback is not allowing the event to define him. On the other hand, someone who cannot handle defeat is allowing the event to define his self-worth. Events can only define your self-worth if you allow them to. You cease allowing events to define your self-worth when you handle defeat as a learning experience and remount the horse that has thrown you for another ride.
In money, your career or love, when you lose - as hard as it may be - look them in the eye, refuse to allow the events to shape your self-worth and shake their hand literally or metaphorically as you say, "Good game." You just might find yourself winning the next game.
-- Ron White
Check out the incredible online video of newly crowned 2009 U.S. Memory Champion Ron White on the CBS Morning Show memorizing a deck of cards and a 40-digit number. It's amazing!
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2. Quotes of The Week
Overcoming the Negative
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." -- Lucille Ball
"Living in the past is kind of like living in a coffin…it's totally constraining, and ends up being a lid on your growth…" -- Doug Firebaugh
"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past." -- Tyron Edwards
"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams." -- Les Brown
"If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter." -- Chekov
"If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won´t be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret." -- Jim Rohn
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." -- Helen Keller
"Don't water your weeds." -- Harvey Mackay
"Let criticism motivate you." -- Jan Ruhe
"As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem." -- Stephen Covey
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Gagehot
"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." -- Gustave Flaubert
"In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving." -- William Arthur Ward
"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play to win." -- Tom Hopkins
"We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value." -- Jim Rohn
"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes." -- William E. Gladstone
3. Paying the Price by Denis Waitley
I've studied and counseled many world class athletes, but no one has inspired me more in recent years than champion cyclist Lance Armstrong. Watching him overcome setback after setback during his unparalleled conquest of The Tour de France, I have come to view him as the model for commitment and self-discipline as an athlete. As Lance has told us in his own words, "It's not about the bike."
Can you remember when you got your first two-wheeler? It's an experience many people can recall instantly. I'll never forget when I got a bicycle for Christmas. My whole family stood on the lawn watching me try to take my first ride. On that day, I discovered why commitment is definitely like riding a bicycle.
First, you must believe that a machine that can't even stand by itself will transport you safely. Of course, you've seen it work for others, but now you've got to convince yourself that this form of success can actually happen to you.
Second, you must let go of all forms of support and balance yourself with the sheer force of momentum by your own strength.
Third, you have to lean into curves. This becomes easy enough after a while, but at the beginning – just as with snow skiing – the natural tendency is to incline yourself away from what appears to be a potentially dangerous situation. You've got to realize that the best way to avoid falling doesn't involve simply staying as far as possible from the ground.
Fourth, you can coast for a while, but you won't get far if you don't keep pedaling. The lesson there, if you've had the privilege of watching Lance Armstrong in action, is self-evident.
Last, you've got to get up and try again after you've fallen off the bicycle. Kids will fall any number of times, but they'll almost never say, "I quit. I'm not willing to risk falling again. Forget bicycling. I'd rather just walk or take the bus until I can afford a car." Kids rarely attach any significance to even dozens of falls or failures. Again, we have to watch film clips of Lance Armstrong getting up from falls and tragedies time and again to understand that it's just the price kids and champions will gladly pay for that marvelous experience of flying down the road or up a mountain under their own power.
This commitment and discipline to "paying the price" is a key quality in the mind of a champion. You could even say that if success has an entry fee, the cost is total commitment through daily discipline.
No train, no gain! Practice does indeed make for permanent performance.
-- Denis Waitley
Ron White can help you to train your mind to work like a human computer in only 30 Days! For details:
http://Memory.YourSuccessStore.com or call 877-929-0439.
4. Ron White's Masterful Memory in Action . . .
Have you seen this yet?! It's some incredible online video of newly crowned 2009 U.S. Memory Champion Ron White on the CBS Morning Show memorizing a deck of cards and a 40-digit number.
Not only does Ron give this remarkable demonstration, but he also shares part of his strategy of how he does it and how he can teach you to do it!
See some extraordinary clips and take advantage of our special offers on Ron's best-selling, memory-enhancing programs!
Check them out here: http://Memory.YourSuccessStore.com -- or call 877-929-0439.
5. You're Invited to U.S. Memory Champ Ron White's Memory Seminar!
Have you ever seen the memory experts on television who can memorize 200
names in 20 minutes, a deck of cards faster than you can flip through them,
400-digit numbers or a long list of words?
Well...not only can memory champion Ron White do these things, he can teach
you how they do them! He will teach how you can increase your sales, business,
productivity, confidence and grades when YOU tap into the hidden genius that you
already possess!
Ron's conducting a one-day class open to the public on June 3, and he'd
love to see you there! If you can't remember the names of everyone you meet,
give speeches without notes, memorize chapters of books word for word, recall
product knowledge or 100-digit numbers in a flash, then you MUST be there!
Imagine having this genius ability inside of you and never discovering it!
Unfortunately, that's what most people do. Don't be most people!
Triple Your Memory and Triple Your Business, Grades and Income:
- Learn to build relationships by remembering names today, tomorrow and in five
years! What would happen to your business if you remembered every customer's
name and could greet them by name when out in public?
- Give speeches without notes! Discover the ability to effortlessly talk in
front of a group without notes. This is an elite skill and when you have it your
confidence will skyrocket!
- Have the ability to memorize a chapter of a book literally word for word
- Effortlessly recall 100-digit numbers. You will have a mental rolodex in your
brain for phone numbers and addresses
- Ace any test by studying in one-third the time with 300% more retention!
- Learn a foreign language in a flash
- Be able to quote lines from your favorite book or speech at a moment's notice
- Build rapport and relationships when you recall important details about your
customers
- Retain knowledge from seminars. How much money have you invested in seminars
and books and you still can't recall the information? This seminar will be an
insurance policy on every future class because you will recall the information!
- You triple your memory and triple your confidence and self-esteem when you
discover the power of your brain!
- Recall complicated math formulas. Remove the stress of trying to recall
complicated math formulas as you study for exams!
- Learn pages of product knowledge in just minutes!
- Much more!
MONEY BACK GUARANTEES!
1. You will take a test at the start and at the end and you are GUARANTEED a
300% increase in memory
2. You will be able to meet 30 people in 30 minutes and recall their names
3. You will be able to give speeches without notes
4. You will be able to hear/see 50 random words and study them for no more than
a few minutes and recall the list forward, backwards or by number!
Be among the first 100 to enroll and receive special discount pricing, plus
get Ron's 4-week advanced memory training teleseminar absolutely FREE (a $199
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For more information or to reserve your seat at this extraordinary one-day
memory seminar, visit
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