Khuram

How to get your mojo back

Humans have a curious relationship with certainty and uncertainty. We need a certain degree of both in our lives to be truly happy.

Think food, clothing and shelter, for certainty, but then think, without some entertainment, mystery and surprise on a regular basis, life would get pretty dull, i.e. uncertainty.

Tony Robbins has been speaking about this for years.

Think about the hallway in your house. If I were to ask you to run from one side to the other at full speed, how confidently could you do it? Silly question, right?

Now if I were to blindfold you and ask you to run through the hallway, you probably wouldn’t be anywhere near as confident, even though you’ve done it hundreds, if not thousands, of times before.

For me, the blindfold is your relationship with certainty and uncertainty. Without certainty, you don’t have the confidence to move forward.

Entrepreneurs face this in business on an almost daily basis. They constantly push the envelope for themselves and their business into areas where they may have not ventured before.

But it’s this push out of the comfort zone, that creates those extraordinary results, i.e. remarkable businesses.

However, we don’t all, even the best of us, have the courage to constantly push past our comfort zones, or stretch the limits of our creativity. Things get us down, circumstances change, and, more often than not, that voice of fear, doubt and insignificance starts to loom above our heads.

At this point, regardless of what you currently know and believe, if you don’t have the courage to continue, if you don’t have your mojo sitting right next to you, it doesn’t matter how talented, creative or skilful you are, you are not going to create the best results, or do your best work that we can all be proud of.

It’s at these times that the best thing you can do is create some psychological distance. Let’s face it, the only thing that is really affecting your motivation is hardly ever actuality in itself, but the reality that you, in fact, perceive – your interpretation of your current situation.

Immersing yourself in something that can alter your perception of your current reality is the best thing that you can do when your mojo is gone. At least in my opinion. Whatever form that may take, aside from the illegal of course.

I, for example, often watch videos of other successful entrepreneurs, because it reminds me, that if they can do it, so can I. That gives me certainty, which in turn gives me the courage to continue.

So don’t get inspired, get certain!