Follow your own nature to achieve clarity, power, and success The Mushin Way teaches tools and techniques to help you reach peak performance and transform your business and personal life. Regardless of what we want to achieve in business or in life, transformation can be difficult and we tend to be our own worst enemies. We hold ourselves back without even realizing what we are capable of. In this book, you'll learn how to break through the cycle of stress and setbacks to act with clarity, purpose, and direction—achieving peak performance and transformation along the way. You'll look deep inside to discover the natural leadership abilities lying dormant within you; you'll wake them up, make them stronger, and learn to draw on the strengths of those around you instead of muscling through with brute force. You'll discover how making the right choice is an empowering act, and develop the strength and confidence to stop hesitating at every crossroad. With pragmatic advice and wisdom drawn from the guiding principles of the Japanese martial art of Aikido, you'll find your inner warrior and learn that even the most challenging battles can be won—or may not even need to be fought. When you set your sights high, peak performance can feel like a constant uphill battle fraught with failures and disappointments. What if success was more like a transformational river current that carries you along to your goal? This book shows you how to come down off the hill into the refreshing waters of mindfulness to begin your journey to the top. Develop laser-like focus, even in high-stress environments - Identify and develop your own innate leadership qualities - Turn setbacks into opportunities and defeat into victory - Achieve much more than ever before, with far less effort Eastern philosophy teaches us to work in harmony with our own nature instead of fighting ourselves every step of the way. The Mushin Way shows you just where your inner strengths lie, and how to leverage them for success. Have you become "successfully miserable"? Are you caught in a "success trap" where yesterday's major achievements are today's performance standards and continued success is the expectation —not the exception? Are you "rewarded" for your hard work with a distracting and never-ending to do list resulting in tension, conflict, and confrontation? In his new book, Michael Veltri introduces readers to The Mushin Way, a pioneering new system for achieving peak performance with balance. Not burnout. Written for leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals across all industries, this book equips readers with: Practical exercises to unlearn a lifetime of unproductive and reactionary responses to threats, conflicts, and challenges and replace them with techniques that de- escalate, clarify, and resolve situations. - Simple and effective steps that teach you how to receive a 20% raise at work. Or the courage and strategy to leave your dead-end job and create the vocation of your dreams. - Relevant and retainable tools and techniques to make better decisions when the pace is fast, the stakes are high, and the outcome unclear. - The confidence, know-how, and WHY it is so important to your continued success to create an empowering "third place". - Actionable steps to move challenging business and personal projects forward to completion with velocity. Praise for THE MUSHIN WAY TO PEAK PERFORMANCE "Michael Veltri teaches entrepreneurs how to win the losing battle against distractions and attain clarity in their business and personal life. The Mushin Way to Peak Performance is a fun, fascinating read that will free you from being 'successfully miserable' and get you back to loving what you do." —Josh Linkner, New York Times bestselling author, cofounder and chairman, Fuel Leadership; founding partner, Detroit Venture Partners "In my life, there's been nothing more clarifying than violence. Not random violence, but the focused, controlled study of martial arts. In martial arts, the truth finds you. Michael Veltri has been studying martial arts for decades, and distills its most important and crucial lessons into easy to understand exercises that can be applied to business and life. Read this book and you won't have to get punched in the face to apply the lessons of martial arts to your life." —Tucker Max, #1 New York Times bestselling author, cofounder of Book in a Box "In navigating through volatile, uncertain, chaotic, and ambiguous environments, The Mushin Way to Peak Performance teaches readers to successfully balance competing priorities. Michael Veltri's steps toward clarity offer a path to success in life and business." —Colonel Michael Callender, United States Air Force " The Mushin Way to Peak Performance is a playbook on how to successfully apply the many benefits of the martial arts—humility, self-confidence, and indomitable spirit to name a few—to your business and personal life." —Jayson Gaignard