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HOW TO IMPACT WITH LEVERAGE
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When I teach self-defense, it is essential for my students to learn how they can get out of a grasp. In this situation, the other person catches their wrist, and holds it. Now, the grasped student has to get out of this grasp with the wrist. The situation becomes especially severe when the attacker is strong and the defender rather weak. Finally, it comes down to a situation such as the one between David and Goliath. The weak defender can only get out of the grasp using some form of leverage.
One method would be to deflect the attacker, but this does not work in every case and with every attacker. What I teach my students in this situation is to move the grasped arm in a manner that forces the attacker to release their wrist immediately. This method works with every attacker and with every defender, no matter how strong or weak they are. By knowing and applying this method, the defender becomes stronger and forces the attacker to release her or his wrist. And it works, believe me!
As you see, leverage is a very, very important tool in having an impact on this world. It's clever to use leverage when we want to make an impact on something or someone, because we need to make less effort to attain a bigger impact. So why do most people not use leverage when they intend to make an impact on something or someone? This is because they have no idea what kind of leverage they can use in different situations so that it will make sense.
What kind of leverage is available to us?
My belief is that the most relevant kind of leverage is the help of other people. As Barbara Sher always puts it "Isolation is the dreamkiller." We can get help from other people and we can even hire others to help us so that we can concentrate on the most important tasks. Especially those tasks that we don't like to do or that we are not really good at, should be outsourced, because it will take us a lot of time to get them done.
However, we should also outsource tasks that we are very good and fast at, if we don't really enjoy doing them. When we waste our time doing things that we don't love, we have less time left to complete the tasks that we do love. This is very hard to do, since we are trained to do what we are excellent at. But is it really worth our time? There is no right and no wrong answer to this question. True is what you believe.
I have collected a list of other types of leverage:
- Read e-mails just once or twice each day. Answer them immediately if possible.
- Dedicate the first hours of each day to tasks that you love doing. Don't do anything else before you have spent these hours on what you love.
- How would you like to be remembered after your life? Spend your time on working towards these goals.
- Spend your thoughts on what you love, and they will bring you one step closer to your goals.
- Take care of your health, so that you will have much life time available to do what you love.
- Knowledge is leverage. Whenever you intend to do something and you don't know how, collect as much useful information as possible.
- Communicate as precisely as possible, and fill your words with important content.
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Can you come up with your own ideas of what types of leverage are available to us?
Please e-mail me your ideas and stories about leverage to andreaklee@gmx.net.
I wish you an awesome month with many opportunities to make life more efficient and greater by using leverage!
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Andrea Brigitte Klee
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My favorite quotation for July:
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie
Andrea Brigitte Klee
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