from good to great

from good to great
was a popular business book

and like many
of that ilk,
had a lot of wisdom
and it's mainly in this awful
masculine prison
of getting the ball down the court

and
and
and

to go from good to great
you have to go more feminine
have to have more connection
have to pay attention to the process
have to slow down to get more done
have to take time to refresh

you don't have to be
mindful

and that,
alas,
is the flaw

since an unmindful life
is really a lost one

oh, well

they can still love their kids
and their dogs
and the occasional good sex,
all of which,
by the by
are moments in the present

and I can type about it
in a mindless fluff
or
sense my feet
and pelvis
and breathing
and neck and eyes
and spine
and arms
and legs
and tongue

how about you?
care to go from good to great
by waking up
remembering your deep and glorious desires
and then
making some happy
and perhaps not yet brilliant
moves in that direction??


I hope so

let's frolic toward our bliss

no: frolic blissfully
toward our better

good to better
to
better
to better

never getting it right
as in "right"

never getting it right
along the way



good

Doing it right, vs. Doing it better

To "do it right" puts the pressure on,
don't you think?

Either we've got it, or we don't.

Sometimes when people do the movement lessons,
at first they pay attention,
and figure out what the new configuration of action
is,
and then,
once they "get it,"
they just go into automatic and "crank it out."

And I tell them:
hey, you've figured it out,
you all get an A plus,
now how can you slow and discover
something new and pleasurable and interesing
and a connection
you didn't know about before.

So: it isn't getting it right,
it's creating a pattern and then using that pattern
to be present
and to slow and learn
and to increase pleasure and ease
and discover connections we didn't realize before.

So: instead of "doing it right,"
we play in the movement with
"doing it better" in the sense of ease
and
pleasure
and
discovery
and
connection
and
efficiency in the sense of less effort
and
reversibility
and
using of the whole self

And,
this can be applied to learning music:
doing it right
or finding all sorts of delightful ways
of a process of ongoing improvement.

This can be applied to
learning golf, or tennis:
"doing it right" means
once you've reached "right"
you don't get to improve anymore.

You're stuck.

This is the human delimma:
to stay at good, or stuck in trying to go for good,
or to be at ease and pleasure and curiosity
in the ongoing discovery of ways to
improve.

Good.