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Vitamins for the Mind
by Jim Rohn

Success and Failure

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious I and Obvious II in school.

It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, "John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?"

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

"Vitamins for the Mind" is a weekly sampling of original quotes on a specific topic taken from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn. The burgundy hardbound book with gold-foil lettering is a collection of more than 365 quotes on 60 topics gathered from Jim's personal journals, seminars and books and spanning more than 40 years. Click here to order The Treasury of Quotes.

A lovely post on success and failure from the wise Jim Rohn,

01/11/2011

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| Mentor Ben Drake

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"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure." —Jim Rohn

Trust Your Memory! by Ron White

31/10/2011

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| Mentor Ben Drake

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1. Trust Your Memory! by Ron White

As I was training for the USA Memory Championship in 2009 I emailed the then World Champion, Ben Pridmore, and I asked him for advice he could give me as I trained. His advice was simple… trust your memory.

That was it… trust my memory.

What did that mean? Well, when you are memorizing a deck of cards in a tournament you are timed and the faster that you can do it the better. Oftentimes, I would find myself focusing on a card for several seconds to make sure that I had it in my brain. Then I started with Ben’s strategy of ‘trusting my memory’ and I would start going faster than I thought possible. Guess what? My brain still had the information at the faster speed!

It is much like speed reading. Most of use read slowly not because that is the fastest that we can go but we really don’t understand how much our brain takes in going at fast speeds. Think about driving down the road at 70mph and all the signs, billboards and movement you are able to take in. The brain is the greatest computer ever created. So my advice is to trust your memory more.

This doesn’t necessarily always mean speed but it just means expect more from your memory. Stop saying to yourself, “Oh I am terrible with names,” “I am a poor test taker” or “I just can’t remember like I used to!” Trust your memory and I think you will be amazed. I went from memorizing a deck of cards in 6 minutes and 30 seconds to just over a minute because of technique but also because I started to trust my memory.

Trust your memory, trust yourself and improve your memory results.

—Ron White

As published in Ron Whites Newsletter which can be subscribed to at http://www.yoursuccessstore.com/

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