WHERE HAS MY MOJO GONE?

I wrote this a good few years ago, but I want to share my vulnerability with my readers.

We have all heard that expression, but what does it mean? well, it means “finding the magic in what we do”. When we don’t have that magic, we don’t have that special spark or that inspiration which makes us feel alive. We feel like a boat adrift at sea with no particular destination on the horizon.

I have got many reasons to be positive and have direction in my life, but it doesn’t feel that way at the moment. I have a new business I am planning, which is ok, it is a little behind in the development, but it’s not life or death. Two months ago, I thought I knew exactly what it was I wanted from this new business, and where it was going, but now it seems like every time I think about it, I stare into a big hole of “nothingness”. I have a little devil sitting on my shoulder saying, “Who do you think you are trying to set up a new business, there are bigger and better people than you out there, and all you are going to do is fail”. So what do I do………..I do nothing. I listen to these words like they are the truth, and I get on the train to failure. I need to stop listening to the “poor me” conversations that are rattling around in my head and practice some gratitude for what I do have.

I have had an unproductive week, which consisted of staring at my computer, writing nonsense ramblings on pieces of paper, surfing the net for “nothing” whilst at the same time conning myself that I was looking for inspiration.

I worry about my business, and I worry about me. I talked my concerns over with my son the other day, and he said I am planning to fail. I am making all the right moves and heading right for failure. There is a saying in computer terms which is WYSIWYG…."What you see is what you get", and my family are telling me I look really sad. And they are right, I am sad because I have lost my mojo.

I can relate to when my computer, for no reason, started to go slow and failed to open the documents or pages I wanted it to. Sometimes my TV is the same: it just stops responding. So what do I do? I turn everything off and reboot. I give them a chance to “start again”. At the moment, I feel just like my computer when that little timer is going round and round aimlessly.

I need to stop the train I am on and get off, because it is heading to “failure-Ville”, when I need it to be going to “success-Ville”. To change that, I need to change my thoughts and replace them with ones that will empower me, make me feel positive, and only then can I change my actions. In other words, I need to take control of myself. I need to be able to think clearly about what to do.

So what do I need to do:

Ø Read motivational books

Ø Listen to whatever music feeds my soul

Ø Get out and exercise.

Ø Practise Mindfulness

Ø Do something positive.

Ø Find a new direction for my business and write a plan.

Ø Focus on my business - what’s wrong, what it needs, what do I need to do.

I have got to ask myself why I have lost my mojo, and I believe it is because I am trying to do too many unplanned things. I started to worry about too many things and didn't do anything about them.

I need to be on a success path, need some positive feedback to get my business on track.

“Be in motion, be interested and be useful”. Don’t sit around waiting for things to come to you, because it won’t change all by itself.