When you feel lost maybe it’s because you lost your mojo, but what is your mojo and how do you find it once it’s lost. We could make the argument that your mojo is that personal swagger, not necessarily your ego, rather a simple confidence that makes you feel good.
In the context of your business, start by asking yourself why you’re the best option for the consumer and watch as your passion to compete swells up. Listen to the conviction with which you describe the problems in your industry and how the lesser competitors could never compare to your compassion and level of service.
Then write it all down. Clean it up. Simplify it. Convert it into a simple claim based statement that tells the world why they should choose you. Then there you have it; the campfire that your mojo loves to gather around.
You can do this in any aspect of your life. Simply remember that all you need to find your mojo again is to turn your passion loose. You’ll always find your way back!
Thankfulness…the attitude of gratitude. For what? The good things only? How about the tough times and the trip-ups that teach us too? Why aren’t we thankful for all of it?
Just up the road a bit from where I live, the Pilgrims gave thanks. They had plenty of ups and downs, especially in the first winter when many of them didn’t even survive. To this day you can go there and witness the rugged conditions those early settlers had to endure.
Nevertheless they were thankful. They were free to live and worship as they saw fit. Nobody telling them how to think. They made plenty of mistakes but found meaning in all of it.
So how about you? Are you grateful that people like that came before us and struggled immensely to chisel out greater opportunity for future generations? Is your life really that hard? Look around and I bet you’ll find somebody today struggling like an early American settler. Be thankful that you have what you do and reach out with your talent and your resources to help.
Thanksgiving is a time to recognize the blessings that you really have but might have forgotten…so slow down, take inventory and be thankful!
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. -Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831-1891), An English Statesman and poet.
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There are seeds of destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. -Dorothea Brande (1893-1948) American writer and author of Becoming A Writer.
This week I had the privilege of working with some great people during a real estate conference. Although I have done these many times before, each event seems to give me a much deeper understanding of what keeps people back from being their best. I have said many times before that no matter what the system or vehicle being taught, the real challenge will always involve the “operator”. In other words no matter how proven a method or system may be, it’s always difficult for a new user!
That clearly begs the question, why? But I’m not referring to the obvious fact that learning anything new poses it’s obvious challenges, rather that deep inside each one of us there seems to be a ‘tripping point’!Malcolm Gladwell’s fantastic book, The Tipping Point discusses why things just seem to suddenly click and take off…but what about the converse?
Have you ever had a moment in your life where you thought you were making progress and finally getting somewhere and then the bottom fell out? How about all those people that work a life time to accumulate a level of wealth just to see it evaporate in the latest economic catastrophe? How about that relationship that you’ve been involved with for years that seems to collapse over night?
What the heck is happening? How can this happen? We follow “the rules”…you know, the ones that tell us hard work will get us through anything and everything…”just persevere” they say! While I find that an admirable characteristic and embrace it in my own life, I’m realizing that there is something deeper that could be causing this self destruction!
