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"Moment of Truth"

When the "Moment of Truth" arrives you will know it. This is the most pivotal moment in your personal and professional journey. By definition it is "A critical or decisive time on which much depends; or a crucial moment when a person or thing is put to the test. Many people have arrived at this moment in life totally unprepared. I know people who have stumbled upon this moment or just simply bumbled it. If you fully understood what happens in this moment you might have been more prepared. Once you are in this critical time period, there is no turning back. You cannot decide that you will not go forward or that you have changed your mind in essence it is a point of no return. The beautiful thing about the "Moment of Truth" is that if you have properly prepared yourself for this special event in your life it can be a glorious thing. There is no greater feeling than to enter this moment fully prepared. Athlete's train countless hours, working every muscle, blood, sweat and tears to prepare for this moment. When they arrive at the "Moment of Truth" they take in a deep breath as if to savor a sense of victory that comes with it. In the words of the bible "Luke 9:51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem." In this account of the scripture Jesus had arrived at the "Moment of Truth" . By setting his face he locked it toward Jerusalem like a brick mason setting a stone as he was now determined to complete his work on the cross. History has demonstrated that countless others having themselves been prepared for this moment entered into it with a sense of triumph. As you prepare for your journey don't take this moment lightly you too will soon arrive at your "moment of truth". What you do with this moment is up to you.

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"Who is holding your keys to Success? "

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.- Albert Schweitzer

Each day begins with a new opporunity to shape your future and control your destiny. No other time is as important as the present moment.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.- Benjamin Disraeli

It is this moment that shapes your future and determines the course you will travel to reach your success. Often times our destiny is shaped by events in our life and others. If you are to reach your goals you must determine your boundaries but always remember the sky is the limit.

Make this a year of success, stop allowing other people to determine how high you will climb or how far you will go, its all up to you. If you believe you can do it than you can and love what you are doing. While no one can make you love what you are doing a truth is that if you don't love what you are doing than you are in the wrong profession or field. Determine what is right for you, what makes you feel good. What is it that brings joy to your face and a smile at the end of a long day. If you say its all about the money than your dead wrong. Money alone cannot bring peace and happiness into your life, there are other things as equally important and your must determine what they are. When you love what you are doing and learn to find happiness in it than you are headed in the right direction.

As you began tomorrow and before you do anything remember "you hold the keys" take them with you wherever you go, cherish and guard them like a priceless jewel.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.- Thomas Edison

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module: "Sideline View"

One of the most critical positions when looking at something objectively is the view from the sideline. The "Sideline View" as it is called, is a point of strategic advantage for both player and coach. It allows one to see what the other cannot see. It's one thing to be playing in the game and another to be on the sideline watching from a different perspective.

Perspective by definition:  a specific point of view in understanding or judging things or events, esp. one that shows them in their true relations to one another.

Often times we are too involved in our daily activity or problem to see what is really going on due to our inability to step back away from it long enough to consider the true relationship. This is common for most people regardless of your level of expertise or success, we all need a "sideline view" to help us navigate through the maze of obstacles that can impede our progress. Imagine a boxer fighting in the ring without the benefit of having a manager in his corner to help him avoid a particular punch from his opponent. Most likely he would undoubtedly loss the fight. Imagine for a moment a football team playing football without the benefit of a coach to help them determine which plays to execute. It would be a disaster waiting to happen. Its amazing what can be seen from the sideline when you are the one observing. The sideline viewer can see distracting behaviors, patterns, attitudes, skill deficiencies just to name a few. In fact the sideline viewer can see what your competion is doing even before the game begins. Without this view you are powerless to win regardless of how well prepared you are. When you are engaged in a task or project your engagement is generally subjective which causes a loss of objectivity. Once you have become fully engaged you loss the objective benefit, which is critical to a sustained victory.  

So than we see that it is to our benefit to seek a "sideline view" from one who is able and equipped to see the entire playing field. If you’ve been operating without the benefit of this perspective than you have deprived yourself of a key advantage and have unquestionably hindered your success. Anyone close enough to you can provide this perspective ex., a colleague, a supervisor, a friend, or even a family member. The key is to be able to have access to a "sideline view" when it becomes necessary to your growth and success.

"When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is." Michael De Saintamo

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module:  "Mind Set"

As a trained certified Black Belt instructor I taught my students when competing in martial arts competition to always focus their mind on winning. I taught them that winning is all about the "mind set". Its when you see yourself at the end of having already completed a task, a project, a goal or an objective that you can smell victory. A famous scene in the the movie "Apocalyse Now" occurs when the commander of an AirCav unit played by Robert Duvall refuses a request to transport a soldier who is considered to be a professional surfer. But rather instructs his pilots to capture a certain village along a dangerously fortified beach controlled by the enemy for the soldier to surf, since the beach which marks the opening to the river was perfect for surfing. Dismissing their concerns with the explanation that "Charlie don't surf!," the Commander  orders his men to saddle up in the morning to capture the town and the beach.

After helicopters swoop over the village and demolish all visible signs of resistance, a giant napalm strike in the nearby jungle dramatically marks the climax of the battle. This famous scene ends with the Commandre saying "I love the smell of napalm in the morning... The smell, you know that gasoline smell... Smells like, victory".  

" Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self discipline until you create a positive  mental attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are." --Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, author of "Think and Grow Rich".

 There is no doubt that the Commander had a certain "mind set" that meant for him both success and victory. Developing a victorious "mind set" must be learned, nutured and takes alot of training. As leaders strive to inspire and engage, we need to fully understand the power of senses that lie within the mind.  Many have heard the expression, often said of players on winning sports teams, they wanted the win so bad, they could taste it. Well it's all about the "mind set". Senior Executives will establish new performance objectives for the year along with new annual goals; Account Executives will strategize sales tactics and techniques; Customer Service Representatives will re-visit customer issues and solutions with a "mind set" to be victorious. I'm reminded of a song by Frank Sinatra called the "September Song":

Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December
But the days grow short when you reach September
When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
 One hasn’t got time for the waiting game
Remember that whatever you embark on its outcome will ultimately be determined by your "mind set". So think and achieve, think and succeed.

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"99c don't make a dollar"

Sure you've heard the expression "99c don't make a dollar". An expression that means that falling short of the mark does not count as having accomplished the task. Until you've crossed the finish line you have not won the race. This would be true of any endeavor that you undertake. As in football it's not enough to push the ball all the way up field to the one yard line and not score a touch down. Until the ball is in the end zone you have not scored.

"Failure is not my Destiny." -- Eric M.

How often does it happen in our own personal lives and in our professional careers that we get very close to completing a project, a task or accomplishing a goal or an objective but than just short of completing it someting happens that prevents us from scoring a touchdown.  This can happen to anyone regardless of how well conceived the plan, or how well executed sometimes things do happen. The second question is what do you do should it happen? do you except defeat or do you keep moving forward with an alternative plan? The obvisous answer would be that we should keep moving forward with an alternative plan of action a plan "B" and a plan "C". While no one intentionally plans to fail, planning to succeed takes a lot of thought and effort on your part. It is essential that in your planning that you consider all the variables that could impact on your success. Have you validated all your assumptions and weighed your criteria? Have you developed at least 3 courses of action to follow should one not succeed? If you haven't utilized this process than your headed in the direction of "99c don't make a dollar". Far too many people are satisfied with almost making it, but real winners and champions will not settle for less. Achievment for them is just that "going all the way".

"Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half." -- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

 Just remember as you climb closer to the top the air is always thinner. You will have chanllenges along the way but they are just reminders to keep us focused.

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure." -- David Ambrose

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 "Drafting"

Drafting or Slipstreaming is a technique or a concept where runners as an example align themselves in a close group reducing the overall effect of drag by exploiting the lead runners slipstream. We see this technique is especially useful with race car drivers as well. Drafting can significantly reduce the average energy expenditure required to maintain a certain speed and can slightly reduce the energy expenditure of the lead runner as well. Drafting is used to reduce wind resistance and is also seen most commonly in other sports such as cycling, speedskating, swimming, and cross-country skiing.  An example of swim drafting would be where in a swimmer in a pool competition may hug the lane line that separates him/her from a swimmer of whom he/she is abaft, thereby taking advantage of the liquid slipstream in the other swimmer's wake.

When we apply "Drafting" to business practice and to our personal career goals we will see amazing results. We will be able to sustain successful growth for longer periods and we will have less negative resistance as we sustain that growth. Ever find yourself faced with a challenge that was wearing you down only to find that someone else had already been faced with a similar challenge and learned to overcome it. Well than if you team up with that person and draft in their "slipstream" than you will be able to acomplish your goal with minumum effort and less stress while at the same time helping you to conserve precious energy in getting the job done.

"Many of us are more capable than some of us .....but none os us is as capable as all of us!!!" Tom Wilson 

Drafting can be cooperative, in which members of the same team take turns in the lead position (which requires the most effort and energy consumption). Or, it can be competitive or tactical, where one competitor will try to stay closely behind another leaving him or her more energy for a break-away push to the finish line. In cycling, the main (largest) group of tightly packed cyclists in a race is called a peloton, where cyclists ride in a long formation, with each (but not the first one) drafting behind one another. In this instance they may also use what is commonly known in cycling as the Belgium Tourniquet where the leaders occaisionally rotate throughout the race to help maintian a constant speed and velocity.

We aslo see "Drafting" techniques used in nature as seen in paticular with the Canadian geese and other birds. Canadian geese fly in a V- formation where cooperative fluid dynamic techniques like drafting are at work. The wingtip vortices generated by the front bird will create up-wash circulations. The birds flying behind will receive lift force from these up-wash vortices. Thus, the other birds in the pack won't have to work as hard. Studies show that the birds place themselves roughly at the optimum distance predicted by simple aerodynamic theory to achieve this effect. A similar theory that explains the wings of an airplane in general. Now compare the two effects that of a car in draft - vs- a brid in draft. While the car driving behind another will receive drag force allowing it to reserve its power, a bird flying in a flock will gain better lifting force to allow it to travel farther. So than we can say that if we were able to maximize our draft effect we would have two positive outcomes:

1) Lifting Force - ability to ascend altitude with the pack for longer sustained periods and involves the recovery of energy from vortices created by the leader.

2) Drag Force - the amount of pressure exerted to keep up with the pack also involves the recovery of energy from vortices created from the slipstream of the leader.

As you discover the power of "Drafting" soon you will be soaring with eagles and sitting among the stars.

"The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of this desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetitition to be buried deeply in his subconcscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimun of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end." Claude M. Bristol

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"Crossing the Rubicon"

Have you ever found yourself while in pursuit of a goal or an objective considering the idea of giving up, quiting or turning around? Well you're not alone many people are faced with that temptation when things don't appear to be going as planned, but don’t turn back! stay on course.

"Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully gudie you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms." Daniel Boone

 Its not that we can’t turn back, but in turning back we must consider the consequences of our action. We jeopardize losing the edge, the advantage, our focus and time. So that in turning back their lies the great possibility of failure, disappointment, and the loss of opportunity. To not turn back when tempted to do so, but to press forward is critical to your ultimate success. Have you ever been in a situation where you couldn’t turn back for fear of failure? The fear that comes with feeling that you can not afford to lose all that you have already gained and that the risk of turning back may result in your losing everything. It is a fear in thinking that I have reached a point of no return? You may be asking yourself what is the point of no return?

According to Wikipedia: The point of no return is the point beyond which someone, or some group, must continue on their current course of action, either because turning back is physically impossible, or because to do so would be prohibitively expensive or dangerous.

We call this feeling "Crossing the Rubicon" a metaphoric expression for deliberately proceeding past a point of no return. The origin of the term "Crossing the Rubicon" dates back 2,000 years ago when on January 10, 49 BC Julius Caesar was ordered to return to Rome an instead he and his army crossed the Rubicon River in violation of a direct order, recognizing that their fate together and ultimate success rested not in turning back but in pushing forward, hence the term “Crossing the Rubicon" was born.

So what have we to gain in pushing forward to cross the Rubicon, when faced with so great an onslaught of  alluring temptations to give-up, to quit or to turn around? The victory comes in our pressing forward and reaching toward the finish line.

A biblical writer wrote:

 Phillipians 3:12-14 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: I Forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

So when you are faced with the temptation to give up, to quit or to simply turn around don't!, you can do it, you can "Cross the Rubicon" and meet success.

“Success is not measured by what we’ve accomplished but by the opposition we’ve encountered, and the courage with which we’ve maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." Orison Swett Marden