Just Put Me on the Air by Ron White, Mysticism, reading, forums, Numerology, Sun Signs, Divination

Posts: 5109 · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:52 am

1. Just Put Me on the Air by Ron White

It was May 2000. I was in the seminar business and discouraged. His name was Mr. Palmer and he was a 75-year-old wealthy real estate mogul, and my mentor.

“Mr. Palmer,” I confided, “I am so down. I have made so many mistakes and my business is in pieces.”

“Ron,” he replied, “I make mistakes every day... because I do something every day.”

2. Quotes of The Week
COACHING/MENTORS

“No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself.” —Conrado I. Generoso

“My mentor said, ‘Let’s go do it,’ not ‘You go do it.’ How powerful when someone says, ‘Let’s!’” —Jim Rohn

“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.” —Anthony Robbins

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.” —Brian Tracy

“Apprentice for two years to a great, inspiring leader who’ll mentor and teach you. Execute his or her requests with excellence and elegance. Meet and befriend all his or her friends, associates, bankers, clients, suppliers and actively keep them in your own Rolodex.” —Mark Victor Hansen

“Look for role models who have succeeded in achieving goals similar to your own—individuals with whom you can personally identify.” —Denis Waitley

“A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.” —Tom Landry

3. You Must Risk in Order to Gain by Jim Rohn

In just about every area of life you must risk in order to gain the reward. In love, you must risk rejection in order to ask that person out for the first time. In investing you must place your capital at risk in the market in order to receive the prize of a growing bank account. When we risk, we gain. And when we gain, we have more to leave for others.

I looked up from my drink and saw Mr. Palmer smiling. He then asked, “Do you follow me?”

I did. Loud and clear. He was saying, “Who cares if you made some mistakes. Mistakes only signify action, and that is much better than inaction.”

It was barely 12 months later when I knew I could break a memory record. It was set by a man who memorized 27 numbers in 1 minute and 21 seconds. I knew I could beat that, though I never had even tried. I persuaded the local FOX television affiliate to let me attempt it on live television.

My best friend Brian helped me practice all week. He would call out 28 random numbers and at the same time he held a stopwatch and clocked me. It was very frustrating. Not once did I get it right.

Brian asked me, “Do you realize you are going on FOX this week and you have never gotten this right? Are you sure you want to do this? It is live TV.”

“I will get it right when it counts,” I said, nervously hoping I was right.

The day before the show aired, the FOX producer had me come to the studio to practice and I didn’t get it right then either. The producer looked at me and said, “You don’t have to go on tomorrow, if this is something you can’t do.”

My response without hesitation was, “Just put me on the air.” The producer sighed and shook her head as if I was about to bring down the entire FOX network if I failed. What the producer didn’t understand is that I now lived my life by the Mr. Palmer philosophy, and that philosophy says, “Who Cares!”

The next day, the FOX host read out 28 digits and I nailed it with six seconds to spare! I had never gotten it right, but when it counted, I nailed it! In baseball terms, it was the bottom of the ninth inning, the bases were loaded, my team was down by three runs with two strikes on me, and I knocked it out of the park. The amazing thing is that I had never done it before!

My friends, family, neighbors and the bank teller all high-fived me later that day. Now, years later, I still get speaking engagements because of that 1 minute and 15 seconds of my life.

If I had given into inaction and fear, I wouldn’t have much of the income that I do today. And, if I had failed, according to Mr. Palmer, “Who Cares!”

This “Who Cares!” philosophy that I learned from Mr. Palmer not only causes me to risk in my everyday life, it also makes me a fun speaker. I am not on the platform wondering what everyone thinks. I am having a blast and it comes through. And you know what? People buy into what I am saying because they can tell it is really me and not a phony persona. However, they only see that because I believe in the “Who Cares!” philosophy of Mr. Palmer.

I encourage you to live your life by the “Who Cares!” philosophy and be willing to make a fool out of yourself—even if it is on live television in front of the world. If you are willing to do that, I can guarantee you massive success even if you fail in your initial goal.