He said, “I knew I had it. I already had two strikes. The next one had to be a hit.” You can’t get to home runs without strikes. You can’t get there from here without strikes. That was his attitude. We can learn a lot from how he dealt with failure. We have several leaders at Melaleuca who remind me a lot of Babe Ruth. These are our Corporate Directors. Each one of them has a lot of similarities to Babe Ruth, because they know the track to success is through failure. They have had more “No’s” than anyone. If we could learn how to deal with failure like these champions deal with failure, we would all end up where they are. They just get up to bat again, and they know they can’t get there without “No’s.” You’ve got to have “No’s” before you get a “Yes.” There’s no way to get a “Yes” without a few “No’s.” Every “No” is one step closer to a “Yes.”
Every time! Every time! Every time! We all need to learn that. And we should let nothing stop us. The way to success is through failure. There are no other roads to success. All our Corporate Directors know that. Babe Ruth knew that. It’s learning how to deal with failure. Learning how to deal with objections. Learning how to deal with obstructions. Learning how to get back up with enthu- siasm every time we fall down. That’s the road to success! Babe Ruth summed it up perfectly: “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” That’s what we need to learn.
two outs. Babe Ruth came up to bat. The pitcher winds up and throws the ball right over the plate. Babe Ruth swings. Strike one! If he can hit the ball, they win the game. If he doesn’t hit the ball, they lose the game. It’s on his shoulders. The pitcher winds up and pitches again. Babe swings—strike two! Babe steps back for a second, gathers himself and then steps up to the plate again. It’s all on this one. The entire game is on his shoulders, on this pitch. The pitcher winds up and hurls the ball over the plate. Babe gives it everything he has. BAM! The ball flies right over the center field fence. Home run! Yankees win the game! After the game, a reporter comes up to him and says, “It was the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs and you had two strikes, tell me about the pres- sure. That must have been a lot—how did you do that? How did it feel?”
Sincerely,
@FLVanderSloot
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AUGUST 2019 | MELALEUCA.COM
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