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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.
Howdy,
One of the things I know about myself is that if I want to be building a habit I have to do “IT” ... again and again and again ... whatever the “IT” is that I want to build a habit around.
In this case the habit I’m looking to (re-)form is one of putting sometime into writing each day ... I have a number of reasons why I want to do this, but nonetheless the habit will build if I do it, regardless of the reason behind doing it.
This is a rather powerful idea, i.e.: you can build any habit you want simply by committing to doing whatever it is that you want to build a habit around doing.
So as I began, “Here we go again.” I’ve been working quite hard for a long time at rebuilding my business, and I mean this in two ways:
A brief history probably has a place here to help the story make sense. A few years back I was traveling excessively, up to forty-two weeks a year at one point. I made a very conscious decision that I would revamp my business to spend more time at home with my family and that demanded a change in the most basic form of my business. Rather than continuing existing contracts or seeking new contracts that required me to travel internationally for as many weeks a year as I had been, through Europe, Asia and even Africa on occasion, not to mention throughout the North and South America, I decided to let it all go.
Literally, I began concluding the outstanding commitments I had in place with regard to my corporate clients and refusing additional or new work. Within a year I had closed that business for all intents and purposes, going from seven-figures a year in revenues to low six-figures a year in revenues. I also began shifting my attention from doing primarily corporate training to putting my attention on building up my public training and personal consulting work. What this specifically meant was:
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At that time I especially wanted to be expanding the MythoSelf Certification Training programs we were running and putting together products to reach out to a much large audience. What actually happened was a definite increase in both the quality of our training programs and the attendance in them, both in terms of the quantity and quality of the participants IMO. Some of the shifts I’d begun making must have appealed to folks who were willing to make significant commitments to learning this work with me and then taking it out beyond me on their own as well.
In regard to developing products I began by reconsidering the basic models I was working from at every level ... content, process, intention, audience ... you name it. What resulted was the design of two new significant programs at that time, EPC2™ | Exquisite Performance Coaching and Consulting.” I began offering these two new programs as a set, one program building on and reinforcing the other. Both programs were built on a precise performance improvement model I’d designed and explicated just for these programs. I had no idea when I was doing this how successful these programs would become, nor how integral they would prove to be within the toolset for MythoSelf® Facilitators.
While I made each of these decisions intentionally I have to say I didn’t fully realize what the cost would be when I made them. Ultimately, before we saw things turn around we came very close to bankruptcy ... but truth be told other than for specific passing moments I just accepted this as part and parcel of the process of getting to the next phase. Now I can happily report that my business is more than turned around from being anywhere near the edge of bankruptcy. In fact in many ways my business is more stable than it ever was before.
Specifically, I’m now running the business I dreamed of when I began making these changes five years ago. To a very great extent this is a function of building a habit of success. It includes both doing what it takes AND most importantly building the mind-set that it takes to do just that ... what it takes!
Performance is an “inside job” ... before you can take the action you need to take to create the results you want, you need to build the mind-set from which taking action becomes possible ... IT’S ALL ABOUT ATTITUDE!
I can tell you that during the transition from when I began changing my business until today when I’m running the business I only imagined back then the most important thing I was able to do was to set and maintain an attitude from which action was possible ... “regardless of all external evidence to the contrary.” Even when I was going through the most difficult moments that came about as a result of the decision to change my business and all that came along with it ... both planned and anticipated AND completely unplanned and most definitely unanticipated ... I was able to maintain a Ready State from which I could and did do everything I had to in creating the outcome I kept in mind all along.
This wasn’t just something nice to be able to do, it was critical given what I do for a living ... giving clients critical advice about sensitive, significant and often confidential issues in their lives and businesses. So even when my life seemed to be falling apart from all external observations of it (and there were times in the last couple of years when it seemed that way to others who were observing I can assure you), for me from the inside looking out it was just something to be moving through ...“So This, What’s Next?”
In closing (for now):
When you combine both of these things I’ve been addressing in this posting, building a habit of success and developing an attitude of success (despite all the evidence to the contrary) ... you are well on your way to the kind of Exquisite Performance that elite, world-class performers in every field of endeavor display every day ... the kind of performance that virtually eliminates limitations and takes these folks to the top of their game!
Well there you go ... another day of having written and another chapter in doing what it takes ...
Best regards,
Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Princeton, NJ
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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 ...
Howdy Folks,
WOW! ... it’s been a really long time since I’ve put up one of these, i.e.: a new blog posting.
Anyone who’s been tracking my schedule knows it’s was a busy summer for the Riggio family and me. I started off with a bunch of travel for clients ... mostly through Europe, that was followed by a week in Denmark at the Blue Butterfly, Langebaek Retreat Center doing my first ever Intentional Performance training program, then it was off to California with the ‘fam’ for a bit of R&R;just before we all left for the Mytho2|MythoSelf Facilitator’s Intensive Training Program at Relaiscortefrancia in Lake Iseo, Italy ... whew! It was all quite a rush. I don’t think I was home in NJ for more than two weeks in the last twelve weeks total.
However, I have to add that it was all well worth it ... I had a great summer. What makes it work so well for me is that I get to do pretty much exactly what I love doing. All summer I’m running around meeting up with people I enjoy being with and in some case at least sharing the stuff I’m most passionate about in my own life. I’ve often said that “I live a truly magical life” and the evidence keeps accumulating to support that particular claim.
But enough of my rambling about how incredible my life can be ... what’s got me writing (among other things) is that we are in the final stretch of the U.S. Presidential election process ... and I for one think “It’s been a long time comin’ ...”. Those of you old enough will remember the reference there to 1969, the “Summer of Love” ... Woodstock ... and the David Crosby tune played by Crosby, Still and Nash at that event. I was ten years old at the time myself ... the country was at war in Vietnam ... Richard Nixon, a Republican, was the President of the United States and despised by much of America’s youth. Those were interesting times (that Chinese curse/blessing), marked by what appeared to be radical social upheaval and change ... and yet ...
To use an old quote:
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Here we are again ... only this time I’m on my way to being fifty ... a long time gone from being ten I can assure you! But, at the same time things seem very much the same ... another Republican President is in office, George W. Bush, who like Nixon is despised by much of America’s youth ... we are at war in Iraq ... and the country seems ready for massive social change. Yet ... I think it “Appears to be a long time before the dawn ...”.
Despite Barack Obama’s claims to the candidate of change after Thursday night’s first presidential debate I have to say my doubts couldn’t be stronger that it won’t be the case. I’ve got to presume that when they are alone and looking themselves in the mirror Barack’s camp have to be mighty disappointed with their boy. He was supposed to be a real firebrand who was going to bring real change to Washington (D.C.) ... and instead he spoke like a tepid pot of old tea ... i.e.: really he’s just more of the same old, same old ...
Then of course there was Senator (John) McCain, who began with a tribute to, and I quote, “the lion of the senate” ... Ted Kennedy. It just seemed might self serving in context from my point of view. And, while he made some strong points of his own ... he just seemed ... tired. More to the point he seems so “senatorial” ... compared to Obama’s Presidential presence. He really set himself up to be read as the old guard. While repeating over and over that he was a maverick and the sheriff of the senate and that he’d never been voted Miss Congeniality ... I couldn’t help but feel like I was watching someone who’s been sitting in the same chair for much too long.
I guess if I had to some them up I’d say it was a battle of the “better than thou upstart kid on the block” who keeps talking about “Main Street” while he’s looking to move into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue himself, and the old solider with “many miles to go before he sleeps” and who needs a win before he can go in peace ...
All in all I’m left thinking that:
… but I’m beginning to think I may be a cynic.
Yet, what I have to add that I find most fascinating of all is the study in presentation and propaganda this affords us all in such a public way. These folks are among the best at capturing their ideas in thirty second sound bites, using the platform ... the cameras ... the audience ... the press to their advantage and presenting the persona they most want us to imagine they are, regardless of the evident truth behind the persona that they can’t help but let peak out from behind the mask (as if anyone really cares to look). In some way when I view it as a combination of entertainment and education I can walk away amused and enlightened ... (the challenge is that there’s so much at stake).
What I invite all ya’all to do in the upcoming weeks is to watch the remaining debates, not necessarily for the political content, instead listen and watch for the lessons there in in professional communication. (Although, if you’re planning on voting it wouldn’t hurt to know who your actually voting for ... what they’re saying, AND WHAT THEY’RE NOT SAYING OR SAYING THAT’S JUST PLAIN WRONG!)
Watch for the studied expressions, the gestures ... the tonal variation and rhythmic marking ... and notice how it effects what you think you’re hearing them saying. I was amazed that after the debate on Thursday, and I mean just after, how many people couldn’t remember what had been said in the previous ninety minutes by either candidate ... that’s a full hour and a half of content! What stood out were the sound bites ... and of course the post-debate spin by the pundits that followed on every news channel ... and over the next day or two in the rest of the media.
It’s funny but it seems to me like on a really fundamental level we’ve haven’t moved forward in time at all ... I keep listening for the real change coming but I guess it’s still much like it was in 1969 ... just that now there are more zeroes on the end ... and I keep hoping that truly “the darkest hour, is always just before the dawn ...”
Best ...
Joseph Riggio
Princeton, NJ
PS - I’m planning to do a bit of post-debate coverage myself after the upcoming Vice Presidential debate ... my money’s on Palin ... in front of an audience she’s a natural ... don’t count the lady out just yet ...
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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
Folks,
Howdy ... I’m almost feeling like I have a head cold, all full up with something that I can’t quite get clear. Yet in this case I know that the experience I’m having has much more to do with ideas than anything else. I’ve been rolling around in ideas for days, weeks, months ... or maybe more correctly years. Most of this time the ideas have flowed pretty well ... and to a great extent that remains true for me. Yet there I find myself tending a new crop of ideas about some ideas I’ve had for a while. And these new ideas are iterations and referential to a lifetime’s worth of old ideas.
Specifically, I’m finding a few things that stand out:
What seems so significant to me now has to do with the way the ideas are coalescing into some new form. I cannot speak to it yet, but I sense that it will have a form that I can speak to very soon. I already have some sense of where these ideas are going, I’m pretty darn sure of where the ideas have been drawn from that are in the process of coalescing, and I can even speculate on where they could end up in the short-term. What I cannot do yet revolves around a common language that would express what seems to me to be new ideas, although I am perfectly ready to accept that they are more likely revisited ideas that are expressing in a new way.
What I’ve been putting out, the aspect of these ideas that has been accessible to me for the last couple of years at least, has been around the idea of performance as an aesthetic consideration. Most folks are looking at performance from an analytical position, seeking to quantify the components to create a impact on the total performance experience. This would be anti-aesthetic in my opinion.
The primary distinction of the aesthetic consideration begins with the perception of the wholeform experience, perceiving the entirety of the experience as a singularity as opposed to a set of linked fragments.
Beyond the perception of the wholeform experience operating from the aesthetic consideration the perception of either “well-formedness” or “ill-formedness” of the experience becomes obvious.
Well-formedness and ill-formedness are expressions of the pattern inherent in the experience and the context that the experience occurs within.
My simple take on performance as an aesthetic consideration lives inside of the idea that the aesthetic consideration resides in the sensual experience of pattern ... both pattern as resonant and dissonant forms. Thinking about form as the primary consideration ... the wholeform experience, how the entirety operates ... positions the performer in a different relationship with performance.
Instead of considering fixing the aspects of the performance that are somehow wrong or not working, the performer who operates from the aesthetic consideration operates in regard to the wholeform experience, which resides beyond any specific aspect of the performance ... in this way of operating intention informs actions and overrides analysis.
We can say that we’re discussing the concept of intentionality here. This concept has been at the heart of my thinking since at least 2002 when I began my research for my doctoral dissertation. In fact the concept of intentionality became the central concept of my dissertation. [If you’re interested you can read more about this in my full dissertation “Towards A Theory of Transpersonal Decision-Making in Human Systems”, which you can purchase from Amazon.com.]
What I’ve been putting my attention on has been getting these ideas together in a a coherent form and then out in some way that makes sense independent of the entire historical context in which they were fermented. The basis of what I’ve been doing has been rooted in literally centuries of material dating back to the early Greeks. I know that the culmination I’ve been moving to, must stand alone before I’ll be able to express it in a way that relieves the sense of stuffiness I’ve been experiencing. So I’ve been dancing around the absolute center of the idea until very recently. Now I’m much, much closer and sense I’m closing in on that expression that will pull it all together for me.
Joseph Riggio
Princeton, NJ
P.S.: There’s still time to get in on the Intentional Performance program in Denmark this July. If you’re reading here ... you’ll probably be thrilled to be part of what we’ll be doing there ... go ahead download the brochure Intentional Performance.
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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 ...
Howdy all,
Some folks have been noticing that I’ve been appearing infrequently here on my blog ... at least based on some private emails I’ve been receiving. Well there are a bunch of reasons I could give, or I could sum them all up and say that I’ve been overwhelmed with the amount of things to be doing ... but it all becomes meaningless because regardless of what might be going on in my life or yours we all do what we decide is imperative for us to be doing. Simply I haven’t been called to be writing so much here lately ... and I’m beginning to think I understand a bit more why.
Let me start a bit earlier back than where we are right now. First of all I think we all want to live lives full of meaning and purpose ... to be in the flow of the cosmos knowing we are standing in a position well suited to us and where we can make an impact of some kind based on our unique potential ...
It was 1969 and I was most assuredly Dazed and Confused ... when Led Zeppelin debuted the tune with that same title on their premier album Led Zeppelin after Jimmy Page, who IMO was the greatest blues-rock guitarist of all time, reworked a version of the same tune from an earlier group he played with, the Yardbirds. The tune was originally written by a folk singer named Jake Holmes in 1967. It’s a dark tune about what sounds like a bad relationship or maybe an evil woman if you listen to the lyrics closely. But what Holmes said about in a 2001 interview was this:
“The song’s about a girl who hasn’t decided whether she wants to stay with me or not. It’s pretty much one of those love songs.”
I was ten years old when they released that album and that song. When I first heard it I was probably closer to twelve years old and it was 1971. The world around me was dazed and confused ... it was literally in a cultural, social upheaval ... war was raging, rioting had transformed the country and more specifically the city I lived in, politicians had lost virtually all their credibility ... the chant all around was a combination of “Down with the establishment!” and “Question Authority” ... I was a child of revolution, not an external revolution like civil war, but an internal revolution of the mind ... of values ... of everything that represented stability in the world as I knew it to be.
So I listened ... John Paul Jones driving the tune with that compelling, entrancing, exquisitely simple descending bass line ... Page with those ethereal sounds as he bowed his guitar ... John Bonham supporting the pulsing rhythms on drums ... and Robert Plant with that hauntingly pained vocal ... it was mesmerizing long before I heard the words. Literally it was a song title and a soundscape to me and for me ... a way beyond the limits of what I saw, heard and felt going on around me ... maybe even a way out.
The question of course would be, “A way beyond what?” ... “A way out of what?”
The simplest answer I could possibly offer would be, “A way beyond and out of the position of being dazed and confused ... beyond and out of the roiling circumstances surrounding me.”
As I’ve said this wasn’t, isn’t, about the words ... the lyrics ... nothing particularly profound there IMO ... true and honestly raw maybe ... but not profound. It was a purely aesthetic experience ... something that drew me in and opened up to me another position of perception. That sound drew me in and restructured how I saw the world around me, what I heard in what was being said, how I felt about it all ... even that which I myself couldn’t express ... couldn’t even point to ... and yet knew as well as I know my name that it was so ... aesthetic arrest.
At the time I was a committed fan ... listening to Led Zeppelin the way my children today listen to the bands they too find transport them as well. I must say I don’t get it, I don’t get the same experience of being transported by what they are listening to as they do, yet I do get that they are ... transported and beyond the limitations of the present.
And now we are back again ... to the present. I’ve made more than one comment about the idea expressed in the phrase, “Be Here Now” and all such nonsense pointed to being in the present ... in this space and time we occupy, e.g.: The Power of Now ... like where else can we be?!!?!? Of course we’re all here and now!
Yet many people recognize that they are not available to what is here or now ... what is present in this space and time. In essence they are in another space and time ... a fabrication that they impose on this space and time. It’s not a question of operating with a consideration of alternate space and time being present ... or calling into this space and time the consideration present in other space and time possibilities ... but the imposition on this space and time of another that doesn’t belong or fit.
This then becomes the essence of this dialogue ... the fit ... or as I prefer, the fit and match ... of things. Another way to call this out would be as the pattern of things. Pattern resides at the core ... the heart ... of the aesthetic position. When the pattern is recognized in the sensual experience the veil of the aesthetic has been drawn.
The challenge with all of this ... the aesthetic position ... has to do with the unspeakable nature of it. The aesthetic position cannot be spoken ... nor can it be written ... and therefore I have chosen more and more to remain silent.
I find myself drawn by the pull of the aesthetic. I’ve said clearly that the work I do resides in the aesthetic ... neither scientific or psychological, neither rational or irrational ... maybe non-rational, it’s not even philosophical ... although it’s most definitely informed by all of these and contained by none of them. I follow the pattern to see where it leads. Try selling that to a client who thinks they are paying for results!
Yet ... this is where I am ... embracing and embraced by the aesthetic. I am positioning myself more and more to hold this position ... for myself and for those who seek something of the same ... aesthetic arrest ...
Best regards,
Joseph Riggio
Architect and Designer of the MythoSelf Process
Princeton, NJ
I am stepping outside of the contained position this summer .. stepping into that place where the aesthetic reigns ... and yet connecting it to the place where we live in our ‘ordinary’ lives as well ... Intentional Performance ... it will be exciting to see who’s ready to let go and show up ... all I can promise is that I’ll be there and no where else.
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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.
Welcome ...
If you’re a regular visitor to BlogNostra you probably realize that I’ve been a bit off in my posting schedule. To say the least I’ve been sporadically posting here over the last few months ... with an intention to be more regular in my posting, but challenged with all the things coming up around me. You’ll also notice something that I haven’t done before ... I’ve posted a picture. I did this, posted this picture, specifically because it will be the one that I intend to use for a new project I’ve been asked to work on, a new Internet radio program I’m calling Intentional Performance.
This program will begin airing on Saturdays starting the first week of April on Web Talk Radio.
Although I’m also currently hosting my live Internet radio show Leadership Intuitions on Voice America, this program offers both my listeners and me a different direction that I’m excited to be going in.
Here’s the description I wrote for the catalog entry about the show:
Intentional Performance
with Dr. Joseph Riggio
The shift from living an ordinary life to living a life that is extraordinary and authentic often requires only a millimeter of change in attitude.
Join Dr. Joseph Riggio and his guests as they talk about their failures and successes, the unique lessons they’ve learned and their tricks and tips for building a life from the inside out.
This show will take a different direction as I’ve said, first of all I intend to be doing interviews with some really interesting people on this show, drawing them out about “… their failures and successes, the unique lessons they’ve learned and their tips and tricks for building a life from the inside out.” This alone really sets this show apart from what I do on Leadership Intuitions, with Michael Cage who co-hosts that show with me.
While I still love doing Leadership Intuitions it’s really for a completely different audience experience. On that show, Leadership Intuitions, Michael and I discuss every aspect of leadership possible ... often talking about leadership in organizations and business, or in relation to entrepreneurship, but we also often discuss leadership as a personal or social attribute as well. In the new show Intentional Performance in addition to building it around interview with some of the truly fascinating people I know and meet, I’ll have a chance to take a direction that has become far more personal for me.
This new show really has me excited because I sense a complete alignment with where I am now in my own life and work, and that will be the focus and what I’ll be talking about on Intentional Peformance. The fundamental premise, “The shift ... of change in attitude.” has always been close to my heart. The idea of moving to the excitatory bias or to a positive position or even as I sometimes say “being at your best” stands directly at the center of the work I’ve been studying, developing and delivering for just about twenty years now.
It really, really gets me though when folks think that this idea of “being at your best” revolves around some airy, fairy concept of feeling good or being happy. As I’ve said a couple of hundred times, or maybe even a couple of thousand times ... “What I do has nothing to do with being happy ... although you may find yourself happy as a result ... the work itself has nothing to do with being happy as its intended outcome.” My work has as a singular intended outcome, ‘Becoming Human’, exemplified by two or three things that are primary in the way in which this specifically manifests:
This new show, Intentional Performance will be all about just these kinds of things! I intend to find people who are living in relation to these three points I’ve noted above, and have found for themselves their “blueprint for success.”
To sum up where I find myself going with this new adventure I’d have to say it’s about, “Creating Futures That Work.” I hope I find you there joining me on this next part of the journey ...
Joseph Riggio
Princeton, NJ
PS - Keep a lookout for the soon to be released information about my summer intensive retreat at the Blue Butterfly in Langebaek, Denmark. I wrote about this back in December (2007) in my blog posting, Continuing the Journey (check that posting out for more details about the program). BTW we have now confirmed the dates with Varuni at the Blue Butterfly, we’ll be there doing this program 7-11 July 2008 ... and I couldn’t be more excited. I’m going to limit the program to just twenty people to create a truly special, intimate, profound, transformative experience for everyone who attends.
Truth be told I hadn’t even realized that I’d already named the direction I was heading in, i.e.: Intentional Performance, when I was asked for a name for this new radio program ... but I’d obviously committed myself to this direction more than I knew myself before the beginning of this year ... that’s the power of intentionality!
PPS - I really hate to sound pushy, but if you haven’t done so already and you’re even slightly interested in attending the Intentional Performance Retreat with me in July at the Blue Butterfly please, please get a note to Nancy to be put on the mailing list for this program, 2008 Intentional Performance Retreat and we’ll do the rest ... we’ve already got people who have asked us to hold a space for them without even knowing the dates or the costs ... so I’m sure this program will fill very quickly when we release the program details and I will be limiting it to absolutely no more than twenty people!!! ... THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING!
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