A recent post on Improvised Life highlighted the work of Kate Conklin, a performance coac
h. She asks the question: What are the qualities that make a performance extraordinary? What are the things that happen that make both the performer and the audience feel like they’re flying? …like these aeralists from Cirque-du-Soleil.
Well the answer, she found out was not just in the desire but in the work that follows. Deep down, what do we care enough about, desire enough to, as Kate says, “Respond to that desire and do the work to support that response.”
It led me to wonder, how many of us really want extraordinary? extraordinary lives, work, relationships….
Hard and persistent work in service of what we want is not what most of us want to hear. We want easy answers, magic pills, miracles. It’s OK but chances are it won’t be enough for the Universe to deliver the result we want….and without a shift, we’ll settle for mediocrity, for less.
So, I sit pondering, “What do I want?” Want enough to do whatever it takes?
And if nothing comes, I wonder, what is that all about?