Ron White's Ezine
October 5, 2005
Issue 05

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Welcome!

This past week I spent some one-on-one time with TC Cummings, Master Coach of Jim Rohn International and former US Navy SEAL. TC and I are co-writing a new book, 22 Success Lessons from Navy SEALs (keep watching the Ezine for my announcement on its release date). This will be an incredible book and I am excited about what I learned from TC. In fact, my first introduction to TC was on the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Event. He was one of the guest speakers and his segment really impacted my thinking and helped me create some new paradigms that have helped me break through and create greater levels of success in my personal and business life.

This week, my special product offer is the best-of-the-best highlights, 2 DVD set from the 2004 Weekend Event. This 2 1/2 hour DVD set is nothing short of phenomenal! While you might not have time to sit down and watch all 24 hours of the complete set, take the time (no longer than a full length movie) to watch this highlight DVD -- it is a MUST for your library. For more information scroll down to #4 below.

Go for More this Week!

Ron White

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In This Issue.....

1. The Butterfly Effect by Ron White
2. Quotes of the Week
3. What Does Being a Navy SEAL Have to Do With Success? - TC Cummings Interview by Jerry Clark
4. Special Offer! 2 1/2 hour, 2 DVD set containing highlights from the Jim Rohn Weekend Event - the Jim Rohn Weekend Event DVD Sampler!
5. Ron White's Upcoming Memory Training Workshop -- Don't Miss It!
6. More Information

1. The Butterfly Effect by Ron White

It was 1960 and meteorologist Edward Lorenz was working in his lab. He was entering data into his computer in the hopes of modeling weather patterns when he stumbled upon a theory that is known as, 'The Butterfly Effect'. He was entering wind speed, air pressure and temperature into three separate equations that were linked in a mathematical feedback loop. This equation allowed Lorenz to predict weather patterns.

One day Lorenz was in a bit of a hurry and opted to take a shortcut when entering the data. He rounded the numbers to the nearest one thousandth rather than to the nearest one millionth (for example, .407 instead of .407349). As a scientist, he knew this would change the result – however he expected only a minor change. Lorenz was astounded to discover that this tiny change made a profound impact on the final resulting weather pattern. This discovery led Lorenz to ponder: Does the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas? – Thus you have 'The Butterfly Effect' theory.

This theory has been applied to all areas of science since Lorenz's 1960 experiment.

"But, Ron, what does this mean for my life?", I can hear you asking.

It means that every decision or action that you make - no matter how small – could potentially dramatically alter the course of your life. My life, as I am sure yours is, is a testimony to the butterfly effect. When I was 12 years old, I met a friend named Brian in P.E. class. Over two decades later, Brian is still my best friend. At the age of 12, Brian had a thirst for learning and studying (the other 12 year olds called him a nerd) and he was a fitness fanatic. He still has these qualities and because of our friendship they rubbed off on me. At the age of 18, I needed a job and he secured me a job where he worked as a telemarketer. My third day on the job, I made a telemarketing call to someone in the seminar business. He thought I was a good telemarketer and offered me a job over the phone.

Did you follow that?

You are receiving this email from me, reading my books, or hearing me speak because I was offered a job at the age of 18 from a seminar company. I would have never been offered that job – if Brian hadn't gotten me the telemarketing job and Brian would never have known me if we hadn't met at the age of 12 in P.E.! I have an insatiable desire for learning that began at age 12 and have developed into a fitness fanatic as well. Most of the major events in my life can be traced back to a conversation in a gym two decades ago – that is 'The Butterfly Effect'.

ACTION POINTS

1. Realize that 'The Butterfly Effect' is very real and small decisions or actions can make a huge impact on your life.

2. Take responsibility for your decisions, actions and friends – even the tiny decisions – realizing that they can dramatically alter the course of your life.

3. Understand the importance of attention to detail. Years before 1986, the smallest flaw was overlooked in a Space Shuttle O-Ring. That flaw led to a horrific 'Butterfly Effect' and the deaths of seven Astronauts years later in January 1986.

4. Do not allow 'The Butterfly Effect' to paralyze you from inaction. Instead, use it as the spark of motivation to fan the fire of action – realizing that you control your destiny even in the tiniest of ways.

Use the 'Butterfly Effect' as a tool to make a positive, lasting impact on your life and it's direction.

Ron White
 

2. Quotes of The Week

"Tell me what you say you want, show me one week of your life and I will tell you if you will get it." -- Patricia Fripp

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." -- Mohandas Ghandi

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've everything to do, and you've done it." -- Margaret Thatcher

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action." -- Anthony Robbins

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." -- Conrad Hilton

"He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner." -- Benjamin Franklin
 

3. What Does Being a Navy SEAL Have to Do With Success? - TC Cummings Interview by Jerry Clark (excerpted from the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Event and the 2004 Weekend Event DVD Sampler)

Jerry Clark: Hello everyone this is Jerry "DRhino" Clark. We have here an individual with us who happens to be the Master Coach for the Jim Rohn International coaching program. TC Cumming is a guest speaker at this Weekend Event and is also a former Navy SEAL. So we really want to learn how to get that Navy SEAL mental toughness. Hey, TC welcome to the program.

TC: Good to be here.

Jerry Clark: Now TC with regard to being a former Navy SEAL how does one become a Navy SEAL and what is the mindset you need to want to be a Navy SEAL?

TC: Its about loving challenge. You want to play big with the SEALs. When I say you want to play big, you've really got to want to play big. I'll give you an ideal; 154 men started in my class to become a SEAL and most of the guys wanted to be a SEAL all of their lives, yet only 18 of us became SEALs. So you've really, really ridiculously got to want to play big.

Jerry: So tell us about this program, because this correlates to success in life. Some of the principles that you have to have in order to go through this training and make it, because 90% of these people, who all their life wanted to be Navy SEALs, didn't make it through the program. Not that they couldn't make it but for some reason they didn't. Was it the mental toughness? I'm sure they all had the physique, they were all strong, they were all powerful, and they did all the preliminary working out. So tell us about that.

TC: In fact Jerry, most of the guys that were the biggest were the first to quit because they were not used to losing. The mental toughness is not about winning, it is about what you do under adverse or inopportune conditions. What do you do, do you react or do you respond?

Jerry: What is the difference between reacting and responding?

TC: Excellent question. When we react we are coming from a programmed egotistical place. We are either reacting aggressively or passively. Oh, I'm not good enough. Hey, does everybody see how cool I am. Reactive.

When we are responding, when you say, "Hey, you did a great job." and I say, "Thank you. What was great about it?" I am responding, I'm doing it on purpose. Response is on purpose. Reactive is our ego. So nothing wrong with that because we all have ego. We have a lot of ego and we all are reactive. When we shut down that reactive nature, we become more clear because when we are doing things on purpose; we are choosing who we are going to be with. We are choosing who we are going to surround ourselves with. We are choosing the path we are going to take. When you are sitting in freezing water, it's not really freezing water. You're sitting in the water and you are freezing because of the evaporation process; you are getting cold. No matter how long you stay there when the water comes over you and goes away you get cold. When the cold hits, where is you mind? Are you a victim, are you going to react or are you going to respond? In my mind I would respond by saying, "I'm so cold but there are other guys still here, I'm not dead yet. So I can keep doing this." Other guys would react and say, "I'm out of here, I quit." I remember very clearly in my mind the biggest guy; this guy could do pull-ups till the cows came home. He could run, he could carry people, he could do one arm rope climbs, and he quit. Bam! Like that and as soon as he quit, six other guys said, "My God, if he can't make it I can't make it." They all quit -- Reactivity. They were choosing; these men in their minds, they chose.

Are you going to react or respond? Your son, when he was younger, he's poking you saying, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy..." If you say, "What, what do you want?" You are reacting. You'd never choose to do that. You put your arm around him and say, "You wait until I'm done talking with your Mother." That is a response, that is what you're choosing. So the same thing is true with making money or in any of our relationships. The biggest element though of course, is our relationship with ourself and are we reactive with ourself? With Jim Rohn International Coaching, we support an environment that gets to show this to other people, so you get to see your own reactivity or your responsiveness. Because reactivity is weak, it is disempowering. It's not bad -- it's human. But pro-activity, taking the opportunity by the horns is empowering. Just look at yourself and what you have created, very much at core, if you did it because, "I'll show them", it is reactive. If you did it because "I can, I need to do it, it's my destiny to fulfill; I've got a talent I need to put it to good use. I choose to be successful", that is where the power is.


TC Cummings is a former Navy SEAL, a professional speaker and the Master Coach of The Jim Rohn International Coaching Program. To enroll today in the Jim Rohn International Coaching Program go to http://coaching.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434 and talk with Yveatte or Crystal or send an email to info@jimrohn.com
 

4. Special Offer! 2 1/2 hour, 2 DVD set containing highlights from the Jim Rohn Weekend Event - the Jim Rohn Weekend Event DVD Sampler!
 

5. Ron White's Upcoming Memory Training Workshop -- Don't Miss It!

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