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Ron White's Newsletter
March 31, 2010
Issue 117

Hello, everyone!

You may not have known this, but for the last eight years I have been a member of the U.S. Navy, serving as a reservist. I completed a tour in Afghanistan during 2007. My contract ended this week, and I am a civilian now.

I joined after 9/11. Going to boot camp at age 29 was a tough but invaluable life experience. Each morning, we had seven seconds to get out of our racks. One morning I was disoriented and sat up to get my bearings. That extra five seconds cost my unit an hour of brutal, nonstop pushups, sit-ups and jogging. Everyone learned that day that a group is only as strong as its weakest link. But it was a lesson none of us ever forgot. Today, I am the two-time USA Memory Champion, but not because of my memory skills. I am the champ because of the discipline and attention to detail I learned in the Navy. 

I have shared the stage with many powerful speakers and struck deals with big-time businessmen, but none have impressed me as much as Senior Chief Reid. While in Afghanistan, he and I were going on a convoy just days after a series of attacks on convoys. I walked towards the first vehicle and he said, “White, take the second vehicle. If we get hit, it is going to be me first.” The Navy is full of people like that, and it is with a saddened but proud heart that I am walking away.

As the corporate world—where the prize is financial—often struggles to plan and achieve goals, the military is planning missions in which life and death hinge on the outcome. At the very moment that a salesperson is giving up on his goals, a service member is going as far as he can and then further to grasp the victory of his mission. 

To all with whom I served: From the 130-degree sands in Kuwait to the mountains of Afghanistan, to two-mile marches in 40 pounds of body armor in the brutal South Carolina summers, to that room without windows in Fort Worth, it was the honor of a lifetime to serve beside each one of you. I am proud of the work we did, and I know you will continue the fighting spirit of the Navy. 

I joined simply to serve, but I got so much more than I ever gave. Thank you for making me a better man, leader, businessman and person. Serving beside each of you was the highest honor of my lifetime.

Ron White

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In This Issue......

1. Hang In There by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. The Power of Praising People by Chris Widener
4. Less Than 24 Hours Left to SAVE 54% on Ron White's Memory in a Month—ONLY $59!
5. More Information

1. Hang In There by Ron White

I remember Navy boot camp like it was yesterday. An event that occurred on my second day still causes me to pause when I reflect on it. You can tell a new soldier to boot camp from one who is about to graduate based upon the clothes and ribbons they wear. It was clearly my second day, evidenced by what I was wearing. I was walking single file with my unit down a hall and a sailor who was about to graduate passed us.

He must have noticed my expression. It without a doubt said, “I am tired, intimidated, scared and hungry.” You can’t talk when walking in formation, therefore he whispered out of the side of his mouth as we passed, “Hang in there... you can do it.”

I turned to look at his face, but all I saw was the back of his head. Every night before I drifted off to sleep I replayed those words. I will never know that sailor’s name. He will never know how it turned my attitude around 180 degrees. He will never know that years later I still remember the electricity of encouragement that shot through my body.

I knew that the only reason he knew what I was feeling is because he had been where I was and felt how I felt. He had made it and wanted me to know that I could as well. I was eternally grateful.

Then it was my turn. On my graduation day, I walked into a storage facility and saw three sailors leaning up against the wall. They were new and scared, intimidated, tired and hungry. I walked over to them and whispered, “Hang in there... you can do it.” Within one second tears filled the eyes of the female sailor and one of the males clenched his fist and gave me a million thanks with his eyes.

As I walked away I had goose bumps. I knew that my words would be motivation for the rest of the day and fuel every night to keep them focused on their goal of graduation when they wanted to quit. I hope they passed on the encouragement to another sailor before they graduated... and I know they did.

If you are in a valley, then remember this. Others have been there (including me). Hang in there. You can do it. Whether your goal is boot camp graduation, building a business or raising a family... since others have done it... you can too. Hang in there.

If you are at a peak, do not underestimate what a few kind words of encouragement might do for those around you.

Many find it odd that at this point in my career I am in the Naval Reserves. I generate more income by one person attending my seminar than I do in my one weekend a month. When I was activated, I earned a fraction of my current income. But I do it because it is right for me and in my heart I have to. I also do it because the lessons like the one above are invaluable to me. I hope you found some value in it as well.

2. Quotes of The Week

Kindness

“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.” —George D. Prentice

“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.” —George Adams

“True self worth, success and wealth can only come about from responsible love, caring and compassionate thoughts and actions.” —Ty Metsker

“I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now... as I shall not pass this way again.” —William Penn

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” —Henry James

“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” —Dale Carnegie

“I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.” —Thomas Jefferson

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” —Thomas Paine

3. The Power of Praising People by Chris Widener

(Chris Widener, my friend and a leading expert on the power of influence, discusses the importance of kind words in the article excerpt below. Enjoy! —RW)

One of the keys to success is to have successful relationships. We are not islands and we don’t get to the top by ourselves. And one of the key ways to grow successful in our relationships is to be “life-giving” people to others. Every person we meet, we either give life to or take life from. You know what I mean. There are people who encourage you and when you are done being with them you feel built up. Then there are others who you feel torn down by. Successful people are people who have mastered the art of building others up.

One of the ways we build people up is to praise them. There is power in praising people! Something begins to happen in them, in you, and in your relationship when you praise someone. Remember a time when someone told you something about yourself in a praising manner? It was great, wasn’t it? You probably liked that person more after they praised you, didn’t you?

Now I am not talking about praising people for the sake of praising people. I am talking about honestly looking for and praising positive character traits and actions of others around you. Don’t lie to people. If they have done something wrong, correct it, but when they do something right, praise it!

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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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1. Potential by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. Four Benefits of Pursuing Your Potential by John C. Maxwell
4. Winter Reading Special
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1. Potential by Ron White

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

3. Four Benefits of Pursuing Your Potential by John C. Maxwell

(Here’s a short excerpt from an article by best-selling author and leadership expert John C. Mawell. Enjoy!)

• Higher self-esteem. People who are constantly learning and growing have a good self-image.

• 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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