Ron White's Newsletter
March 3, 2010
Issue 115
Hello, everyone!
The USA Memory Championship is this Saturday, March 6. I am EXCITED! I have been training for this for months, and I am so ready to compete and defend my title!
I have an announcement to make, as well. I am predicting that I WIN! You heard it right. I am predicting that I win on Saturday! Bold? Sure. Confident? Sure. As a matter of fact, I GUARANTEE you that I win on Saturday! No questions asked.
Now, before you spread the word to my competition that I am predicting a win on Saturday, let me explain. Every year before the tournament begins, Tony Dottino (the event founder) tells the group that each person has already won. What he means is that the people in that room are people who are pushing themselves, getting smarter, testing the limits of their minds and mentally growing, and, because of that, they have already won.
I have trained harder for this memory tournament than any in the past. I didn't think it was possible. The time I have invested has been grueling at times, and I am pleased to announce I have gotten better. Because of that, I have already won. Because I wasn't satisfied with my mental status quo and pushed my mind to get better, I won. The results of the tournament are just icing on the cake.
My prediction for you is that you can also be a guaranteed winner at your goals. How do you guarantee a win? You simply get in the ring and give it all you have. That is what I am going to do on March 6, and I encourage you to do the same in your chosen arena.
Ron White
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In This Issue......
The stage was a Texas Rangers baseball game. I stared at the batter and muttered “potential” as he held the bat over his shoulder waiting for the pitch. No sooner had the word escaped my mouth when my friend leaned over and said, “What did you say?” I replied, “I said potential.” Her confused question was, “OK…? Potential in regard to what?”
I then explained. “Well, in science they have something called potential energy, and it basically says that the higher an object is, the more potential energy it has. For example, a rock on top of a building has a potential energy in it—if it were to fall. I was just thinking about the potential energy in the player’s bat and how that relates to me.”
She looked at me intensely, somehow sensing that I was telling the truth that these were my thoughts. She proclaimed, “I never cease to be astounded at the weird things you think about.”
Perhaps it is an odd thought to cross my mind at a baseball game, but it happened. Potential energy basically says that the higher an object is, the greater the potential energy. A ball on a six-story building has more potential energy than one on a three-story building. As a matter of fact, the doubling of the height doubles the potential energy.
At the baseball game, when I started thinking about potential energy, I was considering it in regards to me—and you, for that matter. You see, it has been said that from those to whom much has been given much is expected. Based on the fact that you have access to a computer, understand how to read and have a thirst for learning, you have been given much. Or, in scientific terms, you have tremendous potential energy. You are like that rock on a tall building. However, if you sit there, the potential energy is never utilized or accessed.
One of the greatest tragedies of life is when an individual has tremendous potential energy and squanders it. That is one of my greatest fears. I am constantly faced with the prospect of not using my potential energy. To me, that is one of my largest motivating factors. Every day as I age, I look in the mirror and question if I did everything I could to use my potential energy. Did I do everything I could to figuratively jump off that building and expend the energy?
Pent up inside of you right now is tremendous potential energy that could be utilized to cure cancer, send humans to Mars, write a novel or become president of the United States. The great tragedy is not expending your potential energy and falling short. The great tragedy of life is to be that boulder—to have tremendous potential energy—and squander it through inaction.
There you have it. I was thinking about potential at the baseball game. I was thinking about it because I know that humans with nothing more than primitive tools constructed the pyramids, Stonehenge and the Great Wall of China. These are testaments to human potential. They are testaments to certain individuals thousands of years ago expending their potential energy for the ages to witness and marvel at. The challenge today for you may not be a monument for society or culture; however, it is a call for you to understand potential energy and implore you to seize yours.
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2. Quotes of The Week
Potential/Possibilities
“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.” —Brian Tracy
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” —George Bernard Shaw
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” —Helen Keller
“The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.” —Mark Victor Hansen
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
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• Willingness to change and risk. One of the obvious evidences of growing people is that they are constantly changing and risking. Show me a person who doesn’t change, who doesn’t risk, and I’ll show you a person who’s not growing.
• Passion increases. When we begin to grow personally, our passion for life and learning begins to increase proportionately.
• Lifting the lid for others. What a leader does determines what everybody else is going to do. The people don’t pass the leader. An organization’s growth doesn’t outpace the leader’s progress. As you lift the lid for yourself, you lift the lid for others.
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