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Here We Go Again …
Posted by Joseph Riggio on Tuesday, September 30, 2008The secrets of extraordinary success are often extremely simple ... yet like all secrets until you know what they are the remain “Beyond the Obvious” to you ...
Among the very first and most important secrets of extraordinary success I ever learned were about the essential keys to build Exquisite Performance ... building the habit of success and the attitude that makes that possible.
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Long Time Gone …
Posted by Joseph Riggio on Sunday, September 28, 2008It takes a lot to get me writing these daze it seems (you’ll understand a bit more why that’s so given my recent schedule which I’ve shared a bit of in this posting) ... and the confluence of events swirling up just now seems to have done it again ... an energy crisis ... a fiscal crisis ... an ongoing war ... and the ever-loving Presidential/Vice President Debates ... in this debacle of the American electoral process ...
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Rethinking Performance
Posted by Joseph Riggio on Sunday, May 04, 2008Everybody seems interested in performance ... if not their own than that of others.
For some the fascination begins with the extreme performance of elite performers like Olympic level athletes, for others it can be the outstanding performance of renown entrepreneurs and investors, for others the master-class mental performances of world-class chess players are what catch their attention, yet for another group it will be the day to day performance of making a life worth living ... but regardless of the specifics what we’re talking about can be thought of as an aesthetic consideration
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Dazed and Confused …
Posted by Joseph Riggio on Thursday, May 01, 2008Moving beyond the limits ...
Leaving behind what no longer works has been a long hard road ... and yet so utterly satisfying in every drop of sweat, blood and tears shed.
Now I find myself more and more embracing and being embraced by the aesthetic ... residing in aesthetic arrest ... and finding my performances expanding in ways unimaginable ... only possible in an imaginal way ...
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Intentional Performance … Undoing the Mystery
Posted by Joseph Riggio on Sunday, March 23, 2008As always and in all things the constant is change ... sometimes this means RADICAL CHANGE! ... and sometimes this can mean more subtle change as well. Yet in all change there must be adaptation ... and the distinction for humans remains constant ... the act of ‘Becoming Human’ ... a phrase I picked up from Joseph Campbell, reiterated in many way be my own mentor Roye Fraser ... and which I now love and hold to in my own work.
For me the idea of ”Intentional Performance” ... i.e.: performance based in intentionality ... resides at the heart of all I strive to do.
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