Ron White's Ezine
June 10, 2009
Issue 96
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Welcome!
As I trained for the USA Memory Championship, I sailed along until the final weeks and then anxiety set in. What if "Rain Man" showed up? What if some guy who could count the toothpicks before they hit the floor showed up? There was a guy named "Nth" in the championship. This guy must have been a genius, I thought. His name sounds like an algebraic formula!
I began doubting that I could win against someone who was some sort of "savant." And you know what? I wasn't going to win under those circumstances. It was in the final weeks that I had a breakthrough. I had altered my diet, trained for up to seven hours per day, seven days a week, given up time with my friends and family and trained so much harder than anyone else, but I could still lose and that would be okay. I realized that what won the hearts of everyone in the movie "Rudy" was not that Rudy was the superstar, but that he never gave up and he went to extraordinary lengths to achieve his goal! I had done that! I had done what Rudy did. (Rent this movie if you don't know what I am talking about!)
I came to the realization that it was okay for me to lose to "Rain Man," but it was not okay for me to be outworked. I can control being outworked. I can't control who enters the tournament. In your life, you can control being outworked. It is an amazing thing, too. The harder I worked, the more belief I had that I was worthy of winning and the more I propelled myself toward the inevitable goal of winning.
It is okay not to be number one. It is not okay to be outworked. So what are you still doing reading this? Get out there and WORK! :)
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In This Issue......
1. Leave the World a Bit Better by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Use What You've Already Got by Mark Victor Hansen
4. Your Invitation to an Exclusive SUCCESS Resource . . .
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1. Leave the World a Bit Better by Ron White
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a poem on success. One of his measures of success in that poem was to, "Leave the world a bit better." That line has always stuck in my head. Emerson said you have succeeded if you leave the world a bit better. I have made that line part of my life philosophy. When the tide goes out, there is a mark where the water was. When the waters of life recede from the shore of my being and my heart pumps for the last time, my desire is that there will be a mark where I stood. My aim is that the mark will say, "For some decades, a man occupied this space who saw others more important than himself and made an effort to leave the world a better place for them and those yet to come."
Our society tells us that success is measured by bank accounts, power, beauty and wealth. These are often the result of hard work, luck or birth. They are not evil and I strive for some of them daily. However, they are not the marks by which I will measure the success of my life.
So how do you do it? How do you "leave the world a bit better?"
- Give a percent of your income away to a charity or church. This makes your community better.
- Save a percentage of your income to pass down to your family when you leave.
- Volunteer your time for those who are less fortunate. Are you volunteering anywhere?
- Mentor someone who needs a positive direction in life.
- Follow and get involved in politics. Our laws and leaders will determine the future. You can have a hand in that future.
Or you can amass as much wealth as you can, spend it as fast as you can on the fading desires of your heart and seek to please yourself first. Our culture might tell you that this is success. Emerson tells us that it is not. I encourage you to realize that the waters of your life will eventually withdraw from the shore. When it does, will there be a watermark?
-- Ron White
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2. Quotes of The Week
Books/Reading
"Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way." -- Jim Rohn
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life." -- Norman Cousins
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." -- Groucho Marx
"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." -- Abraham Lincoln
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." -- Walt Disney
"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." -- Warren Buffett
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." -- Gilbert Highet
"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books." -- Bell Hooks
"Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, 50 books per year, and will guarantee your success." -- Brian Tracy
"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi." -- Oprah Winfrey
"A room without a book is like a body without a soul." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Of course inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
3. Use What You've Already Got by Mark Victor Hansen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a brilliant man born with a God-given talent. He was composing at age five and performing before royalty by the time he was six years old. Early on, Mozart realized what his talents were, practiced and honed what he was born to do and used his natural abilities to create amazing pieces of music.
Mozart was not the first to be born with natural talents and he wasn't the last. We all have them - all of us. We only need to discover what they are and use them to the best of our abilities. You have been given amazing gifts that are meant to be shared with the world. Your job is to find out what those talents are and master them. When you focus most of your time and energy on your natural talents, you will find that you reap phenomenal rewards.
Celebrating our natural talents should be an easy task. But for many people it's emotionally exhausting. Why? Because a lot of folks fight their natural talents for one reason or another. Perhaps their parents wouldn't approve of their artistic ability to paint or sculpt, because they want them to be a successful doctor or lawyer. Maybe someone's gift wouldn't seem to have the ability to bring the kind of wealth they desire. Sometimes people are simply afraid to pursue something that seems to come so easily to them - shouldn't success be difficult? No, it shouldn't and it isn't.
These are all excuses. And all the excuses in the world won't destroy talent. It will be there, waiting for us to fight through fear and "what ifs" until we realize what we should have been doing our entire lives. We have been given natural talents for a reason - to use them to the betterment of the planet and those who inhabit it.
Have you ever noticed that when you engage in an activity in which you are naturally talented, you feel energized, excited and optimistic? That's a sign that these are the things you should be focusing upon. For example, when I stand in front of an auditorium filled with thousands of people, and speak to them about fulfilling their dreams, my body is filled with energy - so much that I'm practically buzzing all over. I'm so excited I can hardly stand still.
Your job is to find out what makes you buzz and begin to perfect it. Discover your brilliance in life and practice, practice, practice. You must hone your natural abilities to perfect them - concentrate on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Look at the world's greatest athletes. They practice what they're naturally good at - and what they love to do - every day. You don't see Michael Jordan sitting around trying to decipher a strand of DNA. If that was something he was talented at, that's what he would be doing. But it's not. He's a brilliant athlete and businessman. He sticks to what he does best and has reaped astounding rewards because of it.
There are only two steps to success - discover your brilliance and perfect it. Doing this will allow you to receive the wealth you truly deserve.
"The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
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