The Mushin Way to Peak Performance

The Mushin Way to Peak Performance
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Veltri Michael. The Mushin Way to Peak Performance

INTRODUCTION. THE AIKIDO WAY

The Modern Battlefield

What Is Aikido?

My Path to Aikido

First Encounters

Journey to Japan

The Interruption

How the Book Is Structured: Applying the Principles of Aikido

How to Use This Book

CHAPTER 1. HEIKI: EQUANIMITY

There Is Another Way

An Opportunity to Prevent Violence

A True Hero

Calm Courage in the Everyday

A Moment When I Needed Heiki

Calm Energy Leads to Action

There When You Need It

Embracing Heiki

When You're Known for Fighting Fires, You Get More Fires to Fight

Helping Others Through Heiki

CHAPTER 2. KI: ENERGY

Building a New Routine to Embrace Change

It's All about Energy

My Own Encounters with Ki

When It Feels Like Ki Deserts You

Ki Alone Is Not Enough

When Strength Seduces You

Understanding Ki Means Understanding Your Own Limits

Learning Self-Awareness As an Entrepreneur

Channel Your Ki to Succeed

Building Elegant Support Structures

The Payoff

CHAPTER 3. MUSUBI: CONNECTION

Tying Things Together

It's All about Connection

Building Musubi: Start with Self-Interest

Deepening the Connection

Working without Musubi

You Can't Sell without Musubi

Turning a Company Around by Cultivating Connection

Putting Musubi into Action

CHAPTER 4. NEN: ONE-POINT

Finding Your Center of Gravity

Staying Centered through Good Times and Bad

Finding Your One-Point by Stepping Away

Maintain Your One-Point and You'll Achieve Integrity

Sometimes You Have to Make a Change to Remain Yourself

Michael Veltri, Super-Spy?

CHAPTER 5. MUSHIN: NO-MIND/NO-DISTRACTIONS/NO-FEAR

Give the Grenades to the Zen Masters

No Expectations, No-Mind

Mindfulness and No-Mind

Emptying Your Mind Isn't Easy

Silencing the Monkey Mind

The Opposite of Mushin

A Better Way to Make Decisions

CHAPTER 6. IRIMI: TO ENTER

Centripetal Force – You Have to Get Close

Not Confronting a Problem Can Be Disastrous

The Real Cost of Avoiding a Problem

Procrastinators, Take Notice!

How to Tell the True Problem from a Distracting Tangent

Confronting the Smartphone Problem

Starting Small Is Still Starting

The Power of Irimi

CHAPTER 7. KOKYU: BREATH-POWER

Kokyu-Ho: Knocking Someone Over with Only a Breath

Time to Get Uncomfortable

One Way to Get Past Your Anxiety

Breathing While You Work

How to Take Control of Your Day

Risking Failure to Succeed

Real Risk, Real Rewards

Creating Emotional Exhale Moments

Try It Yourself – Today

CHAPTER 8. AIKI: UNITY

What I Should Have Known

Harmony in Action

Using Aiki in Daily Life

Try It Yourself

Use What You Have

The Road Less Traveled

Start with Self-Awareness

Embrace Your Weaknesses

Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome

Do Your Own Self-Assessment

Finding a Way

CHAPTER 9. ZANSHIN: CALM AWARENESS

Real-Life Daredevils

The Skill That Gives Spies Their Edge

An Exercise in Zanshin

Moments of Calm Awareness

Prepared for the Unexpected

Developing Zanshin

A Moment of Truth

The Power of Zanshin

CHAPTER 10. WA: HARMONY

Why the Finns Are Different

Fighting for Peace

Harmonious Hiring

The New Polaroid: Winning through Cooperation

Harmonious Progress

Understanding How Progress Really Works

The Honorable No

The Honorable No That Saved My Company – and My Sanity

CONCLUSION. SUMI-KIRI: CLARITY OF MIND AND BODY

Clarity of Mind and Body

The Road to Acceptance

Listening to the Inner Voice

Clearing the Way for Action

My Teacher

Duty and Obligation

Strength Forged in Pain

Tempered Steel

A World of Enlightened Warriors

Are You Ready to Transform Your World?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

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The soldier and martial artist Morihei Ueshiba was about to die.

Ueshiba was in Inner Mongolia on a mission of peace, traveling through a remote mountain pass when, suddenly, he and his party were ambushed. Their enemies – Chinese Nationalist soldiers and armed bandits – made a sudden attack, firing weapons as Ueshiba's party scattered, looking for cover in the bare mountains.

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Thankfully, I've been cancer free since that surgery. But as you can imagine, my life has never been the same. After fighting cancer, the idea of quitting my stable corporate job to open a full-time aikido academy didn't sound scary at all. After all, what was the worst that could happen? The school could fail. So what? It wouldn't kill me.

I became a full-time business owner in 2006. I built a very successful aikido martial arts academy. Gradually, as I developed my aikido practice and worked with students from all sorts of walks of life, I started to see how the principles of the discipline could help me – and others – become more successful in my business career. I developed a coaching and consulting practice, and these days I speak all over the world, sharing aikido wisdom with groups at conferences, Fortune 500 companies, and elite organizations such as the Central Intelligence Agency.

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