Mojo

[learnteach]

How does one get it back?

This is the question of the moment. While I am sick, I am contemplating an electronics project I promised to fix.

I used to get things done. Meetings, parties, electronics; long motorcycle rides, black belt, white belt, classes developed and taught; bad poetry, good inspiration...

now I go to work and try to not react badly to the management which distrusts me, work extra hours, and go home.

2 sick days show me that this existance is hollow...

time to find my mojo.

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

If I may advise: start with the basics. Are you eating lots of veggies and getting exercise every day?

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Er, sorry, to continue: if your Maslow's pyramid isn't satisfied, you're going to have trouble doing the fun stuff.

[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

For me, when I've lost *my* mojo, it has always been a "simple" decision to just find it, pick it up and dance with it again. Or take it to the beach. Or climb on the back of a friend's motorcycle...

Sometimes I've found it by/while doing those sorts of things.

*hugs*

[ianhess.livejournal.com]

I list out commitments and projects. I have found in the past that I either have something I need to finish or abandon, or I have simply got too much going in parallel. In the latter case, spending a frantic few weeks clearing my plate often results in the return of sanity and/or creativity.

[nibuca.livejournal.com]

http://twentytwowords.com/2011/11/13/are-you-happy-a-flowchart/

1. Study the system.
2. Identify points of friction (ie, those things that make you unhappy)(I recommend you start with no more than 5 things).
3. Brainstorm how to eliminate or ease those points of friction.
4. Prioritize the "fixes". Consider what fix is easiest.. and what pain point is most prominent. An easy fix to a small pain point is silly and possibly a waste of time. Look for easy fix to big pain point.. or even an easing of a big pain point.
5. Implement one fix.
6. Goto 1. Re-examine the system in light of the one fix. Have the pain points changed? are there new pain points? What is most important to "fix"? I have a bad habit of identifying "fixes" and doing them like a to-do list without reexamining the system. This leads to me fixing things that are no longer big pain points and a lot of wasted effort. Don't be me.

[ladybrid.livejournal.com]

find the small victories and honor them. stack them up until you've gotten back to the bigger ones...
or at least that is what I'm telling me ;)