George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.”
Depending on what time of day it is or where you’re currently hanging your head while tossing those eyes at a computer screen; it’s difficult to grasp the concept of understanding how this fits into a modern society where nearly every player firmly believes what they offer and continue to bring to the surface of reality is always the best and nothing but.
Maximizing the minimum is the new disease.
Corporations do it everyday by downsizing boxes of soap then slapping a new label on it: New and improved with a bigger punch! They’ve maximized the minimum.
In the past three years department heads have cleared out their staff to the point of not leaving enough of a skeleton around to inspire CSI Miami to look into a possible crime.
Show me someone who doesn’t feel ten armloads of stress and pressure and I’ll introduce you to a person that knows how to manage tension but doesn’t have a clue on how to manage relaxation.
From the pages of his book Secrets of a Martial Arts Master, author Richard Andrew King explains relaxation requires only two things: mind control and technical expertise.
Tension is linked to the mind. The more you’re told what to do and how to perform it, the harder your mind works. Tension destroys relaxation creating a serious lack of power and proper execution.
We are the cause of the tremendous amount of stress delivered everyday. Because we aren’t in control of maximizing the minimum the end result is an out of control headache, depression and or reason to pop the top off a bottle of tequila and suck in back to back chunks of liquid emotion.
Learning to manage relaxation is a great workplace tool not a decision to stop by the massage hut on the way home. When you breathe too fast your head becomes light forcing the body to get weak and pass out. Stress is no different. You can only handle so much before being introduced to the backwash of business.
We can’t control other people; instantly you’ll be labeled an a** or failure. The true mark of a master is better understanding that you can only change what you’re capable of controlling. Mastering energy influences your body to relax.
The majority of us have allowed people with money and poor insurance policies to seize our efforts and turn it into things we can’t talk about. We’ve evolved into the crowd of rowing ship slaves onboard wooden boats headed for a new land that promises freedom of speech, cheap gas prices and a better dollar menu at McDonalds.
What’s the most you can give without maximizing your minimum? In a business world oversaturated with give me your life or die leaders…there comes a time when surviving requires an act of courage from you…don’t fight, become a squeaky wheel or develop a temperament that pushes people away. Face the fricken facts; managing tension comes in a bottle managing relaxation is crafted by the hands of an inner eye connected to a decision to never cross the line of maximizing your minimum.
The wrist watch I wear wasn’t designed to tell me the time. I use it to measure my heart rate. Too much pressure introduces me to a reason to take a walk around the office. Too low and I hit the floor to do pushups and sit ups.
I can’t control the unheard of amount of work that enters my path daily nor am I going to complain about it because I knew it was a rattle snake when I picked it up. Maximizing my minimum means changing what I can control…the amount of stress allowed to seep into the soul.
Get control! Learn to manage relaxation.
I will always believe in you first…
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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