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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

DynamicDuoTwins "Motivational Tip of the Week!"

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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

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module:  "Wolf Pack"

A famous line in the movie "Training Day" occurs at the beginning of the movie when Denzel Washington ask the new police recruit "are you a wolf or a sheep". This statement is the central theme of the movie in which all the events will revolve. The "wolf" represents the epidemy of the hunter who will stop at nothing when in pursuit of his prey. Wolves are known to hunt only in packs and will stalk their prey for miles before making the attack. Wolves adopt this mentality instinctively and are born with the natural synergistic ability to hunt in packs or a group. While this behavior is instintive it can be learned.

"Wolf is the Grand Teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share new knowledge with the tribe. Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath. When the Wolf walks by you - you will remember." Robert Ghost Wolf 

Are you a team player? Do you have what it takes to pursue a team objective regardless of how difficult it may look? If so than maybe you are a "wolf".

In today's market the most effective and notorious sales representatives and customer service representatives are those individuals who have adopted the "wolf pack" mentality. When they are working together they are unstoppable and the competition may as well take the day-off.
What is it about the wolf that makes it so ominous? Individually the wolf is not a great threat to his adversaries but as a member of the wolf pack he becomes invincible.  

"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual." Vince Lombardi

In the pack the wolf is feared and revered by his adversaries. His instinct and sense of committment, drive, tenacity and unwillingness to yield is unpararlleled. Have you ever noticed a sales or customer service operation that appeared to be very effective and efficient. Their quality services rating were high, their production was high, and their numbers were through the roof. Whether they were aware of it or not, they probably had adopted a "wolf pack" mentality as their mode of operation. When all the members of the team are working together, and whose goal as committed team members is to satisfy the team objective than nothing can stop their success.

Nelson Mandela "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

When you have learned how to identify with the "wolf pack" mentality your competition will fear you and your customers will love you.