A Master Class in Gremlin-Taming(R) by Rick Carson

Author:Rick Carson [Rick Carson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061747373
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2008-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Clinton was not thinking about Debby Darby or any other cheerleader. His heart, his mind, and his body were set on one Intention with which he was fully Connected: whipping Bubba. And he did. Five times that day. Coach Duval kept them going at it. After all, Coach Duval’s prize bull had gotten his dick knocked in the dirt by a kid he had treated all season as an also-ran. It didn’t say much for his foresight as a coach, and I think he hoped Bubba would save face for both of them before the afternoon was out. Clinton bested them both.

Raw power guided by clarity of Intention and an uncompromised Connection is a hard combination to beat. One thing led to another. Clinton moved up to the starting lineup, and his date for the prom was Debby Darby.

Desire and Intention are different. Your desire may be to win the big game or her admiration, to climb Everest, or to surmount a slump. But Intention is a breath-to-breath activity. It has to do with choosing what you want to devote your attention to right Here, and right Now.

Certainly, it’s a good idea to vividly picture the finished product—that is, to Connect with your desire. Where wellness and blue-ribbon performance are concerned, positive visualization is a worthwhile tool, as is supported by a wealth of data. But it’s not enough. It’s important to know where you are, where you want to be, and the precise stages leading from point A to point B. From my experience, more often than not, what separates getting there from going nowhere is a willingness to let your desire drift into the background of your experience long enough to let you Connect with the next small step leading from point A to point B, with the same enthusiasm and quality with which you first envisioned the desire. Give your Heart the gift of each step, and involve your Heart in the process of taking the step. In other words, achievement requires that your Intention be to fully and completely Connect with the next step toward fulfilling your desire.

An all-out Connection engenders a full-bodied experience. It doesn’t always result in jump-up-and-down elation, and it’s not always a pleasurable experience. It can even result in heart-throbbing terror or trepidation, even pain. (This morning I connected fully, or at least my shin did, with the corner of a coffee table I had managed to skirt past unharmed hundreds of times.) But with few exceptions, an Intentional Connection, be it with a thought, a human, a critter, a project, a fantasy, a memory, or Mother Nature, beats the hell out of the dead zone.

Combine a clear Intention with a clear choice to make a strong Connection predicated on Respect (for the fact that these are precious moments of your own life passing by), and phrases like “taking control of your life” start to make sense.

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