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Taking Care of Business

Posted by Joseph Riggio on Thursday, September 07, 2006

There are many ways to success ... all of them probably make performance improvement an issue ... (so would I) ... yet a significant question regardless of the path would be, “Does the path I’m on “HAVE HEART"?”

Does the path your on address the whole of your life ...

Hello All,

The challenges continue ... but as can happen they've gone from intense to absurd ... and to some extent that brings out the humor inherent in them.

I sit in my world and it comes up swirling around me ... there has never been any question for me in having things to do ... or as I prefer to say, "Life Comes Up." The most appropriate response to this seems to me to be to continue going on. Not, just in a "herky ... jerky" way, but in a more precise way of responding to what actually emerges and becomes present. Maybe the easiest way to say this would be, Taking Care of Business.

I think often life presents us with opportunities to take care of business ... and get on with it. I don't mean this in terms of "just business" ... but also in "life in general" ... with my family, with my friends, in social or civic engagements ... all around. So again I find myself in "real life" - (a little aside, many times I've come up against the idea that people think that this term ... "real life" only applies to certain circumstances and situations ... and that some circumstances and situations are outside the domain of "real life") - and hear I am taking care of business ... AND IT AIN'T ALL BUSINESS THAT HAS COME UP!

Instead of just putting my head down - or maybe more to the cliche "my nose to the grindstone" - I keep finding myself wanting to put my life into my life. Instead of taking it in bits and pieces, I find myself wanting to keep it in wholeform. This means to me that I make sure that I relate what I'm doing in each moment to the whole of my life.

It seems easy to allow myself to take life in pieces and to forget that it really comes all connected ... in one piece ... of one thing. Yet when I hold my life of in "wholeform" it works ... regardless of what comes at me.

This seems to be a kind of a "secret" or a "trick" as I like to say. The "trick" being that you keep your life together ... REFUSE to allow the things that seem to be bits and pieces to remain apart from the wholeform.

What I find specifically interesting about this approach has been that when I do take my life as it comes to me ... in wholeform, things become apparent to me that would not have been apparent to me before. When I "forget" to do this and take life in bits and pieces ... life becomes chaotic and unstable. Life can generally be "chaotic" ... the distinction comes from the sense that life makes sense only when I'm taking it in wholeform.

This just makes so much sense to me overall in my life ... MY LIFE OCCURS ONLY IN "WHOLEFORM." And yet ... I also recognize that it remains critical to include the details AND the wholeform structure ... the details count as well. By addressing the structure of the wholeform the details become apparent - AND they do not overwhelm. So now by operating in this way ... I am able to hold BOTH -the wholeform in place, and attend to the details as well. Holding this position in regard to what comes up ... LIFE ... in this way my performance dramatically improves.

I even think that this "trick" may be one of the critical components of what I've referred to again and again as "Exquisite Performance" - if not "the critical component." So let's leave it there for today ... putting the pieces together within the structure of the wholeform ... to generate your results.

Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Princeton, NJ

Take a quick look at the short introduction to EPC2 - Exquisite Performance Coaching series audio CD, Beyond the Obvious ... you'll get the full taste and flavor for what I think resides Beyond the Obvious the EPC2 - Exquisite Performance Coaching process.

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