HomByz.com for Home Business SUCCESS
2004-11-06 18:24:24 UTC
Ancient Warrior Secrets For The Modern Entrepreneur
by: Hirini Reedy
The words you see onscreen trigger subconscious responses. Dark images
penetrate your mind. Your heartbeat increases slightly. Your muscles
tighten. Like a warrior advancing to combat, you prepare to engage with your
market. Ready, aim, fire. You send an email! Everyday, military metaphors
are projected across our computer screens.
Guerrilla marketing. Market penetration. Global domination. Competitive
intelligence and more. How do you approach your marketing, your business? At
the end of the day, do you feel like you have been in battle? Suffering
battle fatigue.
War is just metaphor for the application of force. By understanding the
nature of war, you can apply this understanding to business. You can apply
the principles of war with elegance or with crudeness. It is like knowing
the difference between a charging gladiator and a meditating warrior-monk.
Here are some warrior secrets that have been derived from traditional Maori
martial arts and modern military tactics. Adapt and apply some of these
principles into your life and business.
1. The Power of Oneness.
When tracking and observing, you need to become one with your environment.
The trees, the insects, the wildlife become your eyes and ears. The forest
becomes part of your body. In order to reach this level of feeling, you need
to become one with yourself.
This power of oneness begins with the point of stillness. You need to slow
down your thinking and relax into yourself. Slow down your thoughts so that
you can sense your own body. Tense muscles. Nervous responses. Stressed
breathing.
Just slow down and take time out from your busy work environment. Spend an
hour of slow thinking each day. Do nothing during this hour then move when
you are ready. The modern entrepreneur is like a scout, silently observing
then moving with swift, efficient actions.
2. Know Yourself.
Know your strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes it takes honesty to admit your
own weaknesses. Your partner, your children or close friends can all be good
mirrors. They reflect back both your good and ugly features.
The ego of a mighty entrepreneur can be easily pricked by the honest opinion
of his 4-year old daughter. Your results are also another good indication.
What results are you getting? Look around you for 360 degree feedback. Put
yourself in uncomfortable positions so that you can stretch and grow.
3. Know Your Enemy.
I said know your enemy, not kill your enemy. Sometimes your worst enemy can
be yourself. Sometimes your enemy is called your competitor. Try this. Look
at your competitors as potential allies. Study them. Think like them. Talk
to them. Understand them.
They very much want the same things in life as you do. Yet be like an iron
fist wrapped in a velvet glove. Negotiate and operate from a position of
strength and honour rather than weakness and deceit. The energy of your
values and beliefs radiate out from you like a force-field. What energy are
you sending out?
4. Think 3 Times Beyond Your Current Capability.
Some warrior races such as the Maori of New Zealand used to train so that
one warrior was equal to three or more opponents. Their smallness in numbers
was compensated for by the quality of the warriors.
Find a way to leverage your current capability so that you achieve a 300
percent improvement in your results. You could be three times faster in
delivering your product to the customer. Or your product could be three
times more reliable.
Why stop at a ratio of three? Perhaps you could achieve a 10, 20 times
improvement ratio on your current capability.
5. Focussed Relaxation in High Stress Situations.
Stress is the number one cause of reduced work efficiency. When teaching
martial arts I encourage people to consciously laugh when in high stress
situations. This relaxes the body and allows natural reflexes to emerge.
Imagine a bloodstained maniac running at you with an axe. Your body starts
to tense up. Your mind panics.
Now imagine the same axe maniac running straight into an invisible concrete
wall three metres in front of you. He is completely knocked unconscious and
thrown backwards onto the floor. You laugh. Now slow this moving image down,
frame-by-frame. Bring the invisible concrete wall a little closer each time.
Laugh as the maniac gets knocked out. Now speed up the frame sequence.
Charging axe maniac. Bang! Knock out! Hahaha! Repeat several times. The
concrete wall becomes a metaphor for the power of your focussed mind.
The next stage is to learn and apply defensive shock-actions so that you
have the equivalent physical impact of an invisible concrete wall. Use t!
his same mind process when encountering negative or hostile customers. Put
up an invisible barrier to block their negative energy. Use laughter to
disarm the tension.
Be in control of your own mind and space.
Find ways to activate the warrior energy within you. Use it as a force for
good. This is the challenge for the modern entrepreneur. To serve the common
good while creating several successful businesses.
Copyright 2004 Hirini Reedy
PERMISSIONS TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in its entirety
free of charge, electronically or in print, provided it appears with the
included copyright and author's resource box with live website link.
AS FEATURED ON Hombyz.com
About The Author
Hirini Reedy is a native author, poet, civil engineer, retired
military officer, martial arts black belt, NLP master and internet
entrepreneur. He shows people how to integrate ancient wisdom with modern
success principles using SIMPLE TEACHINGS. Learn more at
http://www.maori-secrets.com/?warrior
by: Hirini Reedy
The words you see onscreen trigger subconscious responses. Dark images
penetrate your mind. Your heartbeat increases slightly. Your muscles
tighten. Like a warrior advancing to combat, you prepare to engage with your
market. Ready, aim, fire. You send an email! Everyday, military metaphors
are projected across our computer screens.
Guerrilla marketing. Market penetration. Global domination. Competitive
intelligence and more. How do you approach your marketing, your business? At
the end of the day, do you feel like you have been in battle? Suffering
battle fatigue.
War is just metaphor for the application of force. By understanding the
nature of war, you can apply this understanding to business. You can apply
the principles of war with elegance or with crudeness. It is like knowing
the difference between a charging gladiator and a meditating warrior-monk.
Here are some warrior secrets that have been derived from traditional Maori
martial arts and modern military tactics. Adapt and apply some of these
principles into your life and business.
1. The Power of Oneness.
When tracking and observing, you need to become one with your environment.
The trees, the insects, the wildlife become your eyes and ears. The forest
becomes part of your body. In order to reach this level of feeling, you need
to become one with yourself.
This power of oneness begins with the point of stillness. You need to slow
down your thinking and relax into yourself. Slow down your thoughts so that
you can sense your own body. Tense muscles. Nervous responses. Stressed
breathing.
Just slow down and take time out from your busy work environment. Spend an
hour of slow thinking each day. Do nothing during this hour then move when
you are ready. The modern entrepreneur is like a scout, silently observing
then moving with swift, efficient actions.
2. Know Yourself.
Know your strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes it takes honesty to admit your
own weaknesses. Your partner, your children or close friends can all be good
mirrors. They reflect back both your good and ugly features.
The ego of a mighty entrepreneur can be easily pricked by the honest opinion
of his 4-year old daughter. Your results are also another good indication.
What results are you getting? Look around you for 360 degree feedback. Put
yourself in uncomfortable positions so that you can stretch and grow.
3. Know Your Enemy.
I said know your enemy, not kill your enemy. Sometimes your worst enemy can
be yourself. Sometimes your enemy is called your competitor. Try this. Look
at your competitors as potential allies. Study them. Think like them. Talk
to them. Understand them.
They very much want the same things in life as you do. Yet be like an iron
fist wrapped in a velvet glove. Negotiate and operate from a position of
strength and honour rather than weakness and deceit. The energy of your
values and beliefs radiate out from you like a force-field. What energy are
you sending out?
4. Think 3 Times Beyond Your Current Capability.
Some warrior races such as the Maori of New Zealand used to train so that
one warrior was equal to three or more opponents. Their smallness in numbers
was compensated for by the quality of the warriors.
Find a way to leverage your current capability so that you achieve a 300
percent improvement in your results. You could be three times faster in
delivering your product to the customer. Or your product could be three
times more reliable.
Why stop at a ratio of three? Perhaps you could achieve a 10, 20 times
improvement ratio on your current capability.
5. Focussed Relaxation in High Stress Situations.
Stress is the number one cause of reduced work efficiency. When teaching
martial arts I encourage people to consciously laugh when in high stress
situations. This relaxes the body and allows natural reflexes to emerge.
Imagine a bloodstained maniac running at you with an axe. Your body starts
to tense up. Your mind panics.
Now imagine the same axe maniac running straight into an invisible concrete
wall three metres in front of you. He is completely knocked unconscious and
thrown backwards onto the floor. You laugh. Now slow this moving image down,
frame-by-frame. Bring the invisible concrete wall a little closer each time.
Laugh as the maniac gets knocked out. Now speed up the frame sequence.
Charging axe maniac. Bang! Knock out! Hahaha! Repeat several times. The
concrete wall becomes a metaphor for the power of your focussed mind.
The next stage is to learn and apply defensive shock-actions so that you
have the equivalent physical impact of an invisible concrete wall. Use t!
his same mind process when encountering negative or hostile customers. Put
up an invisible barrier to block their negative energy. Use laughter to
disarm the tension.
Be in control of your own mind and space.
Find ways to activate the warrior energy within you. Use it as a force for
good. This is the challenge for the modern entrepreneur. To serve the common
good while creating several successful businesses.
Copyright 2004 Hirini Reedy
PERMISSIONS TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in its entirety
free of charge, electronically or in print, provided it appears with the
included copyright and author's resource box with live website link.
AS FEATURED ON Hombyz.com
About The Author
Hirini Reedy is a native author, poet, civil engineer, retired
military officer, martial arts black belt, NLP master and internet
entrepreneur. He shows people how to integrate ancient wisdom with modern
success principles using SIMPLE TEACHINGS. Learn more at
http://www.maori-secrets.com/?warrior