Teensy Weensy

Apparently, I'm just a wee bit off. I'm millimeters away from making it happen. Just a flick of the wrist or a slight step in one direction will yield big results. The teensy weensy movement in the right direction is the mainstay logic of the motivational speaker Tony Robbins. And while I've never been a bopping head for motivational, go get 'em speakers, I have to say that Robbins' spiel made a lot of sense. In his need to improve his golf swing from abysmal to passable, he changed his movement ever so slightly, just a hair, and then all hell broke loose, or for that matter all heaven broke out and greeted him with a warm hello.

The thing that really got me was the "certainty" stance. Robbins did not call it that, but he said the difference of posturing yourself, literally and figuratively, with a stamp of certainty makes all the difference. While the difference in being completely certain and confident, and disillusioned and dejected are a couple of inches. It's is the mere difference between regal: shoulders - back, face - open, as opposed to slumped and sad. I tried on the confident stance and the dejected one back and forth, along with Robbins who had it down pat. The difference is a flick of the switch. I decided to take the confident stance out for a walk. Shoulders back, bust forward a la Sophia Loren, face open, eyes gleaming. What a response! Robbins is on to something! I got what I wanted. I got respect. I got adoration. I got taken seriously. Then a little later that day, just for a lark, I wore my slumped self out, and I was a veritable doormat. Ignored, bumped on the street without apology. I was invisible. I was a ghost. Scrooge that! I don't care if I fall over backwards in my effort to keep the back back and the bust forward. Gee, I'm even going to e-mail the contagion of no-respondies with the certainty stance. I'm on the phone following up with you. Guess what? You can be sure I'm erect. I'm now certain Clover. I'm exchanging the bad arc for the good one. I'm millimeters from making it happen. Like Robbins, I'm on the upswing.