I’m not sure if you know that I am a world record holder. Did you also know that the other day that for no reason I got kicked out of the Performance Training Company gym in Timaru where I have been a member for over 9 years?
I have not only been kicked out of the gym but I have had a trespass order placed on me which prevents me ever going near the gym for 2 years and if I do I can get up to 3 months jail.
I’m sure people get kicked out of gyms every day but in my case I have never been told why. I must admit I tried to get into the gym one morning without my 10-day pass card and was refused entry.
They weren’t going to give me my money back either and I had to put it in the hands of a debt collector to get my money back.

Indoor Rowing
Pehaps we may have to go back a few years to find out the real reason why I was kicked out of the gym.
I was an indoor rower and a pretty good one at that and I was winning lots of medals at master’s games events.
I am also a motivational coach and one day a women member of the gym called Shirley Godkin came to me and asked for some lessons.
I coached her and gave her some encouragement and pretty soon others in the gym were joining in on my enthusiasm for the sport and we finished up with quite a good team of indoor rowers.
One year at the South Island Masters Games I coached and inspired 11 indoor rowers and we won over 40 medals at the games. Shirley Godkin and I both broke a couple of New Zealand records that year and Shirley presented me with a T-shirt that said thanks coach. It was a proud moment for us all.

Next Challenge
I had just clocked up a total of 10 million metres on a concept 2 erg and I received a reward from concept 2 for my achievements.
I had also rowed a couple of marathons and was looking for a new challenge so I suggested to the rowing team that we attempt to row 100,000 metres each in a day. I also suggested that we get some outside teams together and  row 1 million metres in a day on 10 rowing machines.

Victim Support
It was decided that we would raise some money for victim support.
To get some publicity we also decided to invite some celebrities to join in.
The police and the fire brigade were all invited. The celebrities we invited were Hamish Carter, Jonah Lomu, Susan Devoy, Helen Clarke and a host of others. We were to row the 1 million metres in a day in the Harvey Norman Store in Timaru.
It was at the time when the police in Timaru were facing charges of speeding in Helen Clark’s motorcade. So I asked victim support if we could use the money we raised to pay for the policeman’s fines.
The answer from Wellington was a big no and Victim Support told me they did not want me to raise anymore money for them.

Training & Organizing
There was quite a bit of organizing to do so we had a few meetings. The enthusasm from the rowers died down as the big day approached and at one meeting I held I was the only one that turned up. The next day a photographer and journalist from the Timaru Herald came into the gym to take our photos and I was the only one in the the gym that morning doing any training.
Because no one was prepared to do the organizing and no one was training I knew the 1 million-metre idea was destined to fail and I decided I did not want to be part of a failed attempt. 
I lost my cool and told the reporters from the newsmedia that if they wanted my photo and story it would cost them $5000 and I would use the money for the policemen’s fines in their effort to get Helen Clarke to see a rugby match. They left the gym with their tales between their legs.
I sent out an email sacking all the rowers who failed to come to the meetings and do the training. I then I did my own thing by myself in another furniture store.

World Record
I broke the world record and became the first man in the world over 60 years to row 100,000 metres in a 9 hour day. Tv One sport came to Timaru and ran the story.

All the rowers who failed to put in the hard yards were upset including the owner of my gym because he never got any of the publicity.

Rejected
None of the rowers speak to me anymore including the women I coached to become a New Zealand and world record holder. The Cheif Reporter of the Timaru Herald Paul O’Rourke wants nothing to do with me and wont report anything meaningful I have to say.
My reward from the people of Timaru for representing them at New Zealand masters games and being an inspiration at the performance training gym for over 9 years is a trespass notice served one me after 9 o’clock at night by a policewomen.

The Real Reason
The reason for a 2 year trespass notice to be issued on my by the people I once called my friends has never been disclosed to me and may never be.What do you think the real reason is?
Sabbotage
I got the answer when I went to work this morning someone had
put glue in my office door lock. Once I finally got into my office premises I found someone had put a photo of me through the letter box with words “What a Dick Head”
I resognised the photo and the hand writing it was taken by one of the people from the indoor rowing team and I remember them taking it and I also recognise the handwriting.
Isn’t strange I never thought that such a person could ever turn out to be such a coward. I could approach the person and cause a scene but why bother its their life and they have to live with their cowardly deeds

So what have I learnt from all this. I learnt that they are right they dont have to accept me as a member and dont have to give a reason. Below is an email from Tim Bean one of the owners of the gym

The Law
 Under international (and New Zealand) law a privately owned/operated health club is exactly that – a private membership club operating on private premises.  They are perfectly entitled not accept a membership from every or anyone if they so choose, even if they don’t fancy the colour shirt you wear, the rugby team you support or simply just don’t like you.  Further, there is no obligation upon them to provide any reason for not accepting a membership to any person or refusing entry to the premises.  They could also quite legitimately have any person arrested who, having been asked to leave previously, then re-enters the premises and/or fails to leave.  Just thought I’d mention that.

Tim Bean also has a theory on my charactor below is his email

Defamation of Charactor
Of course there is nothing to stop you spending your contributors money on such a wasteful exercise as issuing proceedings against Justin for discrimination and defamation of character, although it is my belief that in order to do so, one would first have to prove that one’s character was in fact of such good standing as to be devalued by defamation, and not elevated by it.

Serving of trespass notice
The completed Trespass Notice can be served by the occupier or an agent of the occupier with the occupier’s authority.
A professional “document server” or “process server” can serve a Trespass Notice on your behalf, for a small fee. Local document servers/process servers are listed in the Yellow Pages under Document Services or Private Investigators.

You will note that it does not say it can be served by a police officer. The police officer was in full uniform and was driving a police car. The questions I have is did she have authority to serve the documents in police time or was she getting paid under the table.

Summary
I have no desire to ever go into the Performance training company gym again under the present management.
One of the reasons I have gone public with this is that I have done nothing wrong and I want to warn others to beware of the nasty nature of these people.
If they treat one person this way they will treat others the same
and Timaru is not big enough for such a gym.

I realized that if I was going to coach others I had better set the example.

1. I set a goal to live to be 100 and soon realized that if I was to achieve my goal I needed to take care of my body so I stepped up my work rate at the gym.
2. I also needed to exercise my brain so that I would have the right attitude so I started practicing affirmations and visualization techniques.
3.  Last but not least I needed some spiritual help from above because without God in my heart my life had no purpose

A bold statement but to understand the meaning of this headline you first need a quick lesson on human behavior.
God gave humans a brain different to any other creature on earth and that is the ability to create things using part of the brain called the imagination.
The human mind sees things in pictures not words. Every word is turned into a picture and the body acts according to the picture held in the mind.
For example you can make people sick just by telling them they look sick. Doctors can make people well just by giving them a pill made of sugar and water.

One of my goals is to stop people from saying the words not bad because the mental picture of the word bad is what makes them feel bad.

Mind Pictures make us act
The mind will always make the body act on the most dominating word in the sentence. For example words like don’t wont or not have a negative effect on how we act.
You may say to Johnny, don’t spill the milk and Johnny will spill the milk because all his mind heard was spill the milk.
What you should say is hold your glass steady Johnny

If you say don’t run on the road and Johnny, he will always run on the road.
What you should say is stay inside the gate Johnny.
When Johnny grows up you say don’t smoke cigarettes the words Johnny hears is smoke cigarettes.  So he smokes cigarettes
When he looks at the packet of cigarettes the words say cigarettes are addictive so he becomes addicted. The words on the packet say smoking cause cancer and the pictures show him getting cancer so he gets cancer.

Negative Images
Johnny watches  the film “Once were Warriors”  it shows him how to give his wife a beating how to get drunk, leave home, live under a bridge and how to fight in a pub brawl. Everyone says it is a wonderful movie so he starts acting like the star in the movie.
In the meantime he continues to play fighting and shooting games on his play station and when he drives his car the pictures on the television show him how to get drunk and how to crash his car.
He starts behaving badly, the police take his car and sell it, he finishes up in jail and everyone says it his parents fault.

Ignorance
What I’m saying in this article is that unfortunately the people who design this negative advertising have never studied human behavior as to why people act the way they act.
They believe that if they instill enough fear into people their actions will change but what they dont realise is that fear is actually a motivator. People love to challenge that which they fear and the more dangerous and the more illegal it is the more they want to do it.

We could stop many of our problems in society by bringing in a reward system. Instead of getting fines for bad behaviour imagine what it would be like getting a cheque in the mail for good behaviour.

Summary
We act according to the pictures programmed into our brain and the brain cannot tell the difference between that which is imagined and that which is real. If will power and the imagination have to compete the imagination will win every time.
If you feed negative information into the human brain such car crashes, violence, drunkenness, cancer ect on a regular bases sooner or later that person will act according to what has been programmed into their brain

All the advertising that the government does is negative images and its these negative images that are causing thousands of people to die.
This is not the first time I have written about this subject  but my words always fall on deaf ears with governments and the newsmedia because they know that even though thousands of lives would be saved if they stopped the negative advertising it would also put thousands of people out of a job.

Mr Think Talk is someone who goes around town calling himself the greatest motivational coach in the world.
You would think that most people would want to go to a seminar and be taught by the greatest motivational coach in the world but not so.
At first I thought it was because of the reputation of the name Ron Bishop so I promoted my seminars under the name Mr Think Talk but it did not make any difference people still did want to go to the seminars.
Then I thought it must be the price of the tickets so I offered some free tickets and still I could not generate any interest.

Think Talk University
I am convinced that people desperately need my coaching because I know how to coach people on how they can use their brain to reach its full potential
One of my goals is to start a University for parents and their intellectually handicapped or badly behaved children. In my University I would also like to have animals and encourage children to bring their pets with them to school. Animals can be a great healer that calm children and parents down during periods of stress.
Yesterday I inspected an ideal place for the University it’s an Intermediate School that has been discarded by the government. There are many such schools around New Zealand because of the Labour Governments policy and it would great if we could buy the school and bring it back to life again for special needs children and their parents.

Funding & Students
One of the things I need is funding and while there is plenty of money out there I don’t have the time to go begging for money. The other thing I need right now is some children and their parents to test my new Think Talk program out on and again I don’t have the time to go and beg people to come to a Think Talk Seminar.
There is only one of me and right now I’m OK. I’ve got all I want I don’t have to work so my selfish side says why worry about other people.
The truth is I love people and I know that I have developed something that can changes the lives of many families if they would only reach and and ask me to help.

If you would like to give me a hand in some way so we can get the Think Talk lessons out into your community then please give me a call.

Think about the last show you went too and ask yourself why you went.
You went because either someone recommended it to you or you saw a preview of the show.
One of the reasons I am having difficulty getting people to attend my seminars is because no one knows what it’s all about.
They have never seen a preview of the show or spoken to anyone who has ever been to one. That is because no one has ever seen a Think Talk family seminar because the concept is all brand new.

World Famous
I knew that to be successful as a professional motivational speaker I needed to somehow get the worlds attention by becoming world famous. After I broke my world record as an indoor rower I made a DVD recording explaing how I achieved my goal. I sent copies of the DVD to a couple of companies who hire out speakers. Their motivational speakers are mainly famous celebrities and it’s the name of the celebrity that they sell more than it is the content of what the speakers talk about. Some people seem to get a thrill out of being in the presence of a famous person. I don’t judge people by their status in life I think we are all equal and you can normaally tell the chactactor of a person by their handshake rather than their celebrity status.

I sent a copy my DVD to a speakers bureau in Auckland and they just threw  in the rubbish because they could not believe that a 67 year old debt collector living in Timaru a place where hardly anyone in Auckland has ever heard of could ever be worth listening to.

Creative Ideas
To launch my Think Talk seminar in Oamaru a local TV station 45 South interviewed me in a 15 minute interview and it was very good. I got so excited after watching the interview that even I wanted to attend the seminar myself.
45 South is just a new Television station that does not yet have a very big audience but that is OK because its like me its just getting established.
I’m a bit like Sir Winstone Churchill I do most of my creative thinking at night. During the day I will often stop on the side of the road and have a cat nap. Last night I was wondering how I could get my my important message out to the public. How could I tell them that I was having a Think Talk family seminar at the Grosvenor Hotel in Timaru on Wednesday 28th May 2008 at 5.15 PM. How could I tell them that it costs $100 for a single parent family and $150 for a 2 parent family.
How could I tell them that single adults who were Grey Power or Rotary Club members were $200 and poor people were free.
Then I had this brilliant idea. Why don’t I take the DVD recording of the interview I did with 45 South Television and play it at various locations around Timaru so people could get an idea of what Think Talk is all about.

Imports
Many Australians read my articles on both my websites so if they read this one they could still have time to get here before Wednesday and Auckland people could fly down as well. We do have an airport and it’s named after Richard Pearse a man who used Think Talk to build the first Aeroplane. They could have a look at the first flying machine in the world while they are hear. I could even take them out and show them where the worlds greatest racehorse Phar Lap was born.

Preview the Show
Getting back to the family seminar I thought I might call and see some of my friends at the local hotels and see if they will put an add in the Timaru Herald inviting people into their Hotel to see a preview of the seminar.
I could take the DVD around the hotels on Tuesday and by the time Wednesday comes all the tickets to the worlds very first Think Talk family Seminar hosted by Mr Think Talk himself who is the Greatest Motivational Coach in the World will all be sold out.
25 tickets is not a lot to share amongst families it could only be 6 families.

Worlds First
There will be more seminars but there will only ever be a worlds first. When Mr Think Talk is world famous and Think Talk family seminars are being taught all around the world those who buy tickets this week will be able to say my family was at the very first Think Talk family seminar held in Timaru New Zealand.

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If I told you that I had invented a self development program that would put a stop to the rising violence in the home caused by poverty would you give me $100 for it.
The fact is I have invented such a program and I’ve called it Think Talk.
I intend to run Think Talk Seminars aimed at family members who suffer from poverty and violence in the home. I have also created a name for the man who presents the seminars to poor and violent people and his name is Mr Think Talk.
Over time people will come to know that Mr Think Talk is a motivational coach who teaches people how to reprogram their brain.

How it works
Poor and violent people are not born that way its their brains that have been programmed to be that way. The only way you can ever stop poverty and violence or any other crime for that matter is to treat the cause. This involves reprogramming the brain of a person. This changes their attitude and in turn their behavior.
No one can program another persons brain it is something people have to do themselves but they never do it because no one has ever shown them how to do it.
There are people around the world that teach others how to reprogram their brain but often the cost is beyond those who need it the most.

Simplicity
Many of the self-development programs that are on the market today are complicated and require many hours of study and application and therefore they never get used.
Think Talk is a program that can be taught to people of all ages and can be applied immediately following just 1 hour of coaching.

Charitable Donations
At the moment those who need the coaching are never going to get it unless someone pays the cost. $100 is all that it costs to train a single person and give them the self-development tools so that they can immediately start reprogramming their brain to become a better person.
Can you afford $100 to help save one person from poverty and committing violence in the home?
If so deposit you donation of $100 per person into this bank account
06 0889 0152112 03 - Personal Self Development Programs

Wealthy People
It is not always poor people that commit violence in the home. Wealthy people also suffer the same fate. Think Talk does not discriminate between different classes of people. Everyone and I mean everyone including the Prime Minister of New Zealand and the Queen of England will benefit from attending a Think Talk Seminar.
In fact every politician in New Zealand would greatly benefit from a 1 hour coaching session with Mr Think Talk.

Kiwi Apathy
I have sent out hundreds of emails. I have walked the streets in Ashburton and Oamaru inviting people to a self development seminar that will change their life for the better yet I can only find one person who is willing to invest $100 in themselves.
At the time of writing I have in my wallet $100 which I received from a man who runs a car wrecking yard in Oamaru. He gave me the $100 to become the first man in New Zealand to attend my very first Think Talk Seminar.
The apathetic attitude of New Zealand people in at the moment is such that this Oamaru car wrecker is the only person I can find who is willing to invest $100 on a seminar that will make him more successful and a better person.
The seminar room has been booked for 5.15 pm on Tuesday 20th May 2008 at the Kingsgate Brydone Hotel Oamaru. It is sad that I’m going to have to cancel yet another Think Talk Seminar in New Zealand all because you wont be there with your apathetic attitude.

Believing
I have made some very unbelievable statements in this article statements that are finding very hard for you to believe which is why you don’t want to come to a Think Talk seminar.
Just a minute what if it turned out to be true.
What if I really have developed a self development program that is going to change the lives of millions of people around the world. Would that make a difference in your decision. If you were certain of that would come to my very first Think Talk Seminar in Oamaru next Tuesday or perhaps donate $100 to help someone change their life for good.
At the seminar Mr Think will tell that it will never be yours until you believe it. You don’t believe it yet but I believe it. I believe that Mr Think Talk is the greatest motivational coach in the world and that he will travel the world speaking to millions of people on motivation.
Mr Think Talk has confidence because has invested his $100 on himself and that is how he found out that Think Talk works. Thanks for reading this article but you have just wasted you time unless you invest $100 in yourself or in someone else less fortunate than you.

Courage
The reward for courage is confidence. The opposite of courage is fear and Mr Think Talk has some very valuable ideas on how you can easily control fear and it replace it with courage in order to get the confidence you require to succeed.
Mr Think Talk knows that the reason you are not going to be at the Kingsgate Brydone Hotel is because of fear. Mr Think Talk knows what you are thinking right now and it goes something like this.

• The guys mad does he expect me to travel all the way to Oamaru for a stupid 1 hour seminar.
• I don’t need motivation I’m motivated enough.
• The other person has the problem not me.
• Hundred bucks I can afford that.
• I will just delete his email he won’t even know weather I received it or not.
• The Queen and the Prime Minister should attend the seminar who the hell does he think he is?

Confidence
If you don’t have the courage to do that then pick up the Phone and talk to Mr Think Talk himself Home Phone (03) 686 1271
or office Phone (03) 688 4485.

This is what you need to tell Mr Think Talk. Say you are sorry you can not make it to New Zealand’s very first Think Talk Seminar on Tuesday but you would like to donate $100 towards the education of one poor violent New Zealander.

Your other option is to crawl back into your cave with your apathetic attitude and do nothing.

Many years ago I was a shepherd on a sheep station and in one of the paddocks was a swamp. Some sheep would go into the swamp for a drink and get stuck in a bog. I would pull the sheep out of the bog put it on dry ground facing the lush green pasture and as soon as I let it go it would turn around and go straight back in the bog.

A clairvoyant
A women phoned me one day and said she would like some one to one personal motivational coaching. I enquired as to why she wanted the coaching and she told me she was a clairvoyant and wanted to travel the world teaching people about what their past life was like and what it will be like in the future.
I warned her that I was a Christian but she assured me that was no problem because she beleived in God as well.
There were 7 weekly lessons in the personal self developmet course and on the 5th lesson she asked me to teach how she could become the best clairvoyant in the world. I could of done what she asked but I refused because her life was a mess.
She had a broken marriage and was living with a man she called her partner. Her children she did not speak to her, she did not get on with her partners children, she had broken relationships with her work mates and her boss.
I told her that all her problems were spiritual ones and that she needed to get her own life right with God before she started destroying others with her superstition. She never came back to see me.

Telling it like it is
I dont pull any punches with people I tell it like it is and that is not always what they want to hear. I had told this lady the truth and shown her green pastures but she had turned around and went straight back into the bog.

Finding the right leader
Those who have handled sheep will know that if you have a mob of sheep in a pen and you open the gate to let them out into green pastures they will run around the pen and none of them will go through the open gate.
All of a sudden one sheep will walk slowly towards the gate, see the green pastures and find the courage to go through the gate and then all the other sheep will follow. Some will even skip as they follow their leader.

Yesterday I sent out an email to all the people on my prospect list that I had chosen to attend the launch of my new Think Talk Seminar in Ashburton.
It was called the crowd is wrong and I explained how my first email asked people to confirm whether or not they were coming to the seminar and only one person replied. After yesterdays email 3 more people replied and it was interesting to note that yesterdays replies were all from successful leaders.
One lady lived in Auckland but she could not understand why I expected her to come to Ashburton to a Seminar. This lady does not know it yet but one day she may be begging me to come and talk to her and her clients in Auckland.

The other 2 people that replied were already my clients. They have both been to my seminars and listened to my CD on “How to Think Like a Winner” One of them has been through my 7 week personal self development course and is reaping the rewards from what I have taught him.

These 2 people are both good leaders in their own field. They became good leaders because they took the time to learn the success principals from someone who knew more than they did.They had the courage to go through the gate. They are experts in their own field yet they humbled themselves enough to say yes I will come and listen to some words that may help me grow as a person.

Dont you get stuck in the bog. Move away from the crowd and go and find someone that knows more about self development than you do. Absorb the knowledge and learn the skills that will make you a great leader.

Negative attitudes are not only the cause of all peoples problems but they are contagious and are killing many communities. I have been practicing the art of having a positive mental attitude for many years and the more positive I become the more negatives I see in others. Negative thinking people do not realise they are being negative.

Promoting Timaru
For several years I have been trying to promote Timaru but have been battling people with negative attitudes. Last week I went to Ashburton to help promote their town. I could not believe how positive the people were up there and they all supported what I was trying to do for them. A journalist from the local daily newspaper the Guardian even wrote a story about the work I was doing in trying to change attitudes.
A reporter from the Mid Canterbury Herald also wrote a story about my effort to promote the Ashburton district but the Editor of the Newspaper happens live in Timaru and she refused to print the article.

Everyone losers
Because of the negative attitude of the Timaru Herald Editor the readers of the Mid Canterbury Herald have been deprived of some positive information. The journalist who wrote the article has waisted her time and I’ve waisted my time in helping her with the article.

Below is a copy of an email I sent out about 100 people. The email is positive, direct to the point and asks people to confirm if the are coming to the New Zealand launch of  Think Talk

Confirmation Please
Could you please confirm how many people from your organisation
will be coming to the launch of Think Talk in New Zealand.There are only 25 tickets available and it would be a shame if you missed out on witnessing the launch of this exciting new way of thinking and talking.
You may not know it yet but Think Talk is a whole new language that is going to change the lives of millions of people around the world for good.
To find out more about the launch of this important Think Talk seminar here is the link http://www.motivationalspeakernz.comof New Zealands first Think Talk Seminar. I looking forward to meeting you next week in the front row

Ron E Bishop  Inspirational Speaker & Motivational Coach
P.S. I have chosen to send this email to you because I truly believe that you will benefit greatly from attending this seminar.

Footnote
I only got one reply to that email and that was from the Cheif Reporter of the Timaru Herald who told me The Timaru Herald would not be attending my seminar on positive thinking.
Once again a whole group of people are deprived of an opportunity to learn how they can become winners in all areas of their life all because of one persons negative attitude.

THINK TALK SEMINARS
I’m sorry, but I have to interrupt the story of This is my Journey because I have a special announcement to make.
Some of you may be wondering what Think Talk seminars are all about.
Think Talk is a new and exciting way of thinking and talking. It’s a brand new language that is about to change the lives of many New Zealanders and others around the world for good.

THINK TALK Lauch
If you want to find out more then on the Thursday 15th May 2008 I will be launching my very first Think Talk seminar. The launch of Think Talk will be held in the Ashburton Hotel at 5.15 until 6.45 p.m.
At this stage I have reserved a room for just 25 people because that is the most people I can coach at anyone time.

Motivational Coach
It is important to remember that I am not just another motivational speaker with celebrity status. I’m a motivational coach that teaches people how to motivate themselves.
Ashburton is one of my many home towns and I’m excited to have the opportunity come back to my homeland and launch a personal self development program. Think Talk is something that I know will benefit so many Ashburton people all areas of their lives. Come along and hear me share what life was like bringing up a family in Ashburton in the 1970’s and hear what happened to me and my after I left Ashburton. Hear about my failures and how I discovered Think Talk and turned my life around
If I can’t make you laugh then I guarantee I’ll make you cry.
Reserve your seat in the Ashburton Hotel and join me for an hour of fun
while I share the secret of successful living so that you can become the best in the world at whatever you want to be.

Send $100 or your credit card details to Think Talk Launch P.O. Box 313 Timaru

Fundraising for Charity
Unfortunatly the people that need Think Talk the most cannot afford $100 to attend a seminar but with your help we can change that. A percentage of your $100 will be put aside to educate disadvantaged children and their parents on the power of Think Talk.

100% money back Guarantee.
If after attending the Think Talk seminar you think you did not learn anything from Think Talk that will help you to cope better with the ups and downs of life then I will refund your money 100% no questions asked.