Ron White's Newsletter
February 3, 2010
Issue 113
Welcome!
Hello, everyone! If you have a Sirius or XM radio, I will be on the Martha Stewart radio show “Morning Living” with Kim and Betsy next Wednesday, February 10, at 8 a.m. EST. Tune in and learn some memory tips! (Sirius 112 and XM 157.)
It is that time of year again. I am in the middle of intense training for Tony Dottino's USA Memory Championship to be held in New York on March 6, 2010. I am very excited, and as I train Jim Rohn's quote is ringing in my ears: “Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better.” This is such a great philosophy and one that I remind myself of daily as I train. Last week I was so tired I couldn't hold my eyes open. So what did I do? I trained!
I traveled to Asia last week for speeches and one day spent 20 hours in the air. So what did I do? I trained in the air. One day I had missed my jogging for the day and still needed to train memory. So what did I do? I memorized while I jogged. I am committed to the process of being better, and neither exhaustion, travel, nor workouts are standing in my way. I want to encourage you in your life to stay focused on your goals with laser-like intention and remember the words of Jim Rohn: “Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better.”
Ron White
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In This Issue......
1. The All-Joe Team by Ron White
The All-Joe Team—that is the team I want to be on. Forget the rest. If I make this team, my heart is happy. The All-Joe Team was created by Larry Weisman, a sportswriter for USA Today. It is named in honor of Joe Phillips, a defensive tackle for 14 years who played for the San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams and Minnesota Vikings before his retirement in 1999. When Larry explained the All-Joe Team, he wrote:
“They asked Phillips to tie up blockers and let the linebackers flow to the ball, which he did. That’s classic grunt work at one of football’s truly thankless positions, where the results don’t show up in individual statistics. Phillips didn’t make a lot of tackles, and he didn’t have to. He fought off double-team blocks, refused to be moved from the hole and made the guys around him better, inspiring the creation of the All-Joe Team.
“The NFL’s stars wouldn’t succeed without the All-Joes around them. They’d never make the Pro Bowl absent the guys who willingly attack the game’s grittier tasks. Hence, the All-Joe motto: If you work hard, good things will happen. To someone else.”
The football players on the All-Joe Team won’t make it to the Pro Bowl, but without their play, the Pro Bowl players wouldn’t be there. Years ago, when Emmitt Smith won his rushing title, he bought his entire offensive line Rolex watches. He knew that without them he wouldn’t be basking in the glory of end zone celebrations. It was an All-Joe Team that made the holes for his runs.
In business, do you shoot for the All-Joe Team or the All-Star Team? I am not going to suggest that it is wrong to be dancing in the end zone and getting the glory. I will never imply that it is wrong to be on the All-Star Team. But in life and in business, it seems most shoot for the glory and the credit and only a few strive to do the work. I once spoke as a guest speaker in front of a group of professional speakers. The reason that they asked me to speak is because I speak more than the average professional speaker. This group has thousands of members who sit around and hope someone will book them to speak.
When they asked me how to fill up their calendar with speeches and I told them to pick up the phone and make phone calls, it was comparable to me telling them to walk across shattered glass. Not one got excited and said, “Yes! I am going to do that. I think I am going to work!” Instead, they said, “You don’t understand how good a speaker I am. You don’t understand how good a writer I am. Will you book me?” Not only did I not book meetings for them. I lost respect for them. I want to be friends with the All-Joes.
With that said, if you work hard day after day and strive to become an All-Joe, I assure you that you will eventually become an All-Star. Then, after all your hard work and dedication, the spotlight will feel so incredibly sweet. At that time, enjoy the spotlight, but never forget it was the All-Joe attitude that got you there. If for some reason you never make the All-Star Team, you can rest in your knowledge that you were on All-Joe Team, and that is an honorable place.
Albert Einstein would have fit perfectly on the All-Joe Team. He never wanted the spotlight. When offered the presidency of Israel, he turned it down! Why? He was an All-Joe. He wanted to make a difference in the field of science and did not need the spotlight to satisfy his ego.
Effort to become an All-Joe: Work hard, and understand that this means others will get the spotlight because you will be one less person competing for it. But don’t be surprised if one day your work is noticed and you are asked to join the All-Star Team. If so, I look forward to cheering for you as you strut in your end zone dance in the midst of the well-deserved spotlight.
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2. Quotes of The Week
Hard Work
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” —Stephen King
“If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn’t seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.” —Nadia Comaneci
“Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.” —Harvey Mackay
3. Allowing Setbacks to Spur You On by Denis Waitley
(Enjoy this short article from my friend, personal-achievement coach Denis Waitley, excerpted from his program, The Psychology of Motivation)
Many times, we look at high-achievers and assume they had a string of lucky breaks or made it without much effort. Usually, the opposite is true, and the so-called superstar had an incredibly rough time before he or she attained any lasting success.
It may motivate you more toward your own goals to know that some of the most famous and well-known people in modern times had to overcome as difficult obstacles as anyone before they finally reached the top. It takes persistence and total commitment to your goals, but it’s possible!
You may not know the background of a certain laundry worker who earned $60 a week at his job but had the burning desire to be a writer. His wife worked nights, and he spent nights and weekends typing manuscripts to send to publishers and agents. Each one was rejected with a form letter that gave him no assurance that his manuscripts had even been read. I’ve received a few of those special valentines myself through the years, and I can tell you firsthand that they’re not the greatest self-esteem builders.
But, finally, a warm, more personal rejection letter came in the mail to the laundry worker, stating that although his work was not good enough at this point to warrant publishing, he had promise as a writer and he should keep trying.
He forwarded two more manuscripts to the same friendly-yet-rejecting publisher over the next 18 months, and as before, he struck out with both of them, too. Finances got so tight for the young couple that they had to disconnect their telephone to pay for medicine for their baby.
Feeling totally discouraged, he threw his latest manuscript into the garbage. His wife, totally committed to his life goals and believing in his talent, took the manuscript out of the trash and sent it back to Doubleday, the publisher who had sent the friendly rejections. The book, titled Carrie, sold over 5 million copies, and, as a movie, became one of the top-grossing films in 1976. The laundry worker, of course, was Stephen King.
The main message: Believe in your ability to turn obstacles into opportunities. Too often, people try to storm their obstacles as if they’re forts that need to be taken. It’s better to step back and ask yourself: “Did I cause this obstacle by my own actions or lack of them? Did someone else cause this obstacle? Is this obstacle one that grew out of the natural progression of circumstances?”
This last question may seem complex, but it holds a secret to the way you can set and reach your goals and achieve your destiny!
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