My Meditation All The Day

5.11.2006

Operating @ Optimum Speed

This first paragraph is an excerpt from an article in the May 2006 edition of Business 2.0: “The X1’s real secret is how [Ian] Wright engineers it all to keep the car in optimum race mode whenever you hit the accelerator. In any type of two-wheel-drive car, if you can accelerate to a point where the driven wheels are slipping just a bit—rotating 5mph faster than the other two—you’ve hit the car’s ultimate sweet spot, operating at maximum torque. Achieving that in a standard car is very inexact, since it requires either the driver or an automatic transmission to constantly shift gears, and another component, a “limited slip” differential, to apply force to the right wheels at the right time, especially during turns. In the single-gear X1, however, Wright has programmed the hardware and the onboard computer to run constantly in this optimum state whenever the car is accelerating. It’s a feat that’s proven impossible to achieve in a conventional auto. ‘It’s a radical innovation that totally changes how you think of an electronic car,’ says Simon Cobb, director of Lotus’s Advanced Vehicle Research Center. ‘With software you can very cleverly control the storage and release of energy.’”

So too, a wise coach will direct, and at times curb or encourage the energy flow exerted by the athletes they train.

So too, an influential business trainer will monitor and adjust the get-up-and-go of her field agents.

Likewise, a mother oversees the food consumption of her children … and notices quickly whenever there is a fluxuation in her children’s physical wellbeing.

Similarly, you watch yourself.

Consider how much variance there is between total sleep … and extreme exhilaration. Think about how worn out we can become at times. Sometimes we want to run and sometimes we want to hide.

How does a leader choreograph the efforts of his followers to be harmonically in tune with his vision … and at the same time each individual feels they are moving within their energy comfort-zone. Usually the leader has to push or pull or part from the people because his ideas of how “his” people’s energy should be spent are … quite a distance off from the healthy levels of vigor these volunteers are volitionally able to muster and maintain. The other extreme is a lazy leader who lets his followers meander at their own pace … or less than their own pace. Soon followers are struggling to know how or what to do to help the company succeed. Frustrated followers have bound-up enthusiasm, with little outlet or definition of where to … put themselves.

A person can overwhelm their mind by attempting to fully comprehend all the vast availability of energy-altering … liquids and lozenges at the grocery store or the pharmacist. But start off simple. Even an apple changes our metabolism. Food is fuel. We think we have enough of the right stuff to get the job done. But we still run dry.

There is a time to stop. And a time to sleep. And a time to re-fuel.

And a time to eat. And a time to quit making decisions for a space. And a time for vacation. And a time for competition. And a time for high-energy … mathoning-it-out in the work world. Who … what whole-hearted American has not burned themselves out by trying to succeed in the business world?

Then let’s think for a paragraph of how much life has been wasted as a direct result of … over-exertion. We accelerate, stay in high gear for a solid 4 hours, and then crash. The fluids shut us down internally, or our brain gives way. Much like a car, we start flashing warning lights on the dash.

A good boss will say to his employee, “Joe, don’t waste your energy trying to advertise in that way. We already tried it … and here are the statistics that prove we know how better to invest your advertising dollars.” Poor Joe is just trying to … do something! Because business guidelines are missing, people pour their precious energy into the abyss. Especially is this true in the independent agent & contractor world. They just feel … out there as a pioneer, trying and dying, and getting up to do it again. What an amazing waste!

If we relax too long, we get fat. If we go-go-go all the time, we die too quickly, having not squeezed every drop of enjoyment out of every step and segment of life. How can one enjoy just being the age they are at now? rather than yearning for the future to arrive, or pining for the past to re-run. How about learning to enjoy the moment we are in right now?

The words I want to use are … “optimum productivity.” What do those words mean to you, as an individual? Are you smart enough to gauge your own … expenditures in the world of energy-flow? Am I too fast, too hot, too cold, too ambivalent, too lethargic and un-connected? Should I even be the one evaluating my performance? Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Knowing when to relax while wrestling … conserving energy for that big throw, is a key difference between a world champion and a high school all-out-all-the-time, super-tense wrestler. Knowing when exactly to apply one’s full force, is an art; a learnable art. Scheduling the moments so that the most joy is derived from Life … could be called redeeming the time. Buy low, sell high. Know what section of time you want to buy. Sure, give your best at all you do. Which means you can give your best at … taking a break from doing anything at all!

Conclusions:

1. The power of other people’s power: Surround yourself with other runners. People need people. Energy requires outside assistance. Solo power only lasts for an hour or so. Synergize thyself.

2. And then, people need to do nothing at times. Rest is a reward. Treasure it. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. And yet relaxation is a gift to be … used. Recommended reading: The Art of Doing Nothing : Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself by Veronique Vienne

3. There is an energy imbalance in the business world. America is too fast. Wise business leaders, therefore, will recognize ways to guide the individuals they influence … each back into their own … optimum productivity zone.

a. Technology serves to ease the energy flow, and yet it can also make a person feel trapped into a high-speed connection world where they cannot long survive.

b. Simple companies with a definite business plan … very focused on a set of purposes that can be executed within the bounds of … normal effort … these companies will rocket to the top.

c. Corporate heads who seek creative ways to optimize the energy of their work force … will be glad they did.

God has an opinion too

Exd 34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing* time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
*or plowing

Exd 33:14 And he said, My presence shall go [with thee], and I will give thee rest.

Exd 35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

Rth 1:9 The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each [of you] in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Rth 3:1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

2Sa 7:1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;

1Ki 5:4 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, [so that there is] neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

1Ki 8:56 Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

1Ch 23:25 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:

2Ch 14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God; let not man prevail against thee.

2Ch 20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.

Psa 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Psa 38:3 [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.

Pro 29:17 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Isa 14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

Isa 30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

Jer 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].

Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Mar 6:31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

2Cr 7:5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.

Hbr 3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

Hbr 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Hbr 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Hbr 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Hbr 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

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