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Intentional Performance … Undoing the Mystery

Posted by Joseph Riggio on Sunday, March 23, 2008

As 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:


  • Operating from INTENT ... i.e.: knowing who you are, operating from your center, relating to the larger systems that you are a part of, acting with integrity and living without compromise

  • Living Aesthetically ... relating to yourself, to others, to the world around you “mythologically” ... i.e.: thinking and acting systemically ... in regard to the larger consideration of a form containing an essential elegance and grace, thinking in terms of relationships and consequences, and learning to operate further from yourself in terms of space and time

  • Exquisite Performance ... operating in a wholeform manner consistent with producing outcomes that serve the entire system in which they are created ... i.e.: acting in a complete, precise and perfect alignment with your intentions and the emergent information/data in the system, collapsing desire and expectation into a singularity represented by the intended outcome, updating personal resources as necessary and required, and achieving extraordinary results along the way.

    • 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!

    (4) Comments • Permalink

    Excellent idea this new radio show.

    Olivier on Thursday, March 27, 2008

    Joseph,

    What time on Saturday? Not yet listed on the schedule @ webradio. 

    Thanks
    Richard

    Richard Alday on Friday, April 04, 2008

    This Saturday? or next?

    Thanks

    Avid listener grin

    Michael Roach on Saturday, April 05, 2008

    http://www.webtalkradio.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=477&Itemid=33

    Michael Roach on Tuesday, April 08, 2008

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