Feeling mojo

I felt mojo on Saturday and I'm feeling mojo today.

In fact I'm humming as I busy myself with the new me. The new me who doesn't feel like she's knee deep in mud,  wading through it in too-big wellington boots.

I left my job as lecturer in a Business School to get away from stultifying non-mojo, and since I left many of my colleagues have written to say they are inspired by my decision:

Para dizer a verdade tenho uma certa inveja (uma inveja boa, que fique claro,...) quem me dera ter um projecto para abraçar e deixar de aturar as frustações dos outros.

Tara Hunt  first got excited about Finding your Mojo - soul and sex appeal - and identified some of the ingredients (expanded in the full post):

1. Have a higher purpose.
2. Don’t be a commodity. Commodities don’t have mojo, they compete on price, efficiency and speed. Mojo is terribly inefficient...
3. Work as a team....Reward passion.
4. Be part of the customer community you are serving.
   
5. Operate on passion, not ambition. Ambition is great for making barrels of money on undercutting and destroying your competition, climbing to the top of the corporate ladder, etc. It ain’t mojo.
6. Give a damn. ...people with mojo never have to have “because it’s the better thing to do” explained to them.
7. Commit to excellence. Obsess over details. Experience. Be bothered by one customer’s bad experience. Work hard to do better.
8. Get slow. Ever notice how people with mojo never seem to be rushed or distressed? They seem reflective, introspective, they take their time.
9. Believe in your gut.

Then in February Tara Hunt asks "Does Mojo = fun", quoting Evhead on fun:

Fun in work to me means a lot of freedom, and ton of creativity, working with people I respect and like, and pursuing ideas that are just crazy enough to work.

Tum te tum, tum te tum ... here's to mojo and lots of fun!

Comments

[josien]

Here is to a mojo life! printed and above my screen as somehow, with me, mojo moments tend to slip, drip, evaporate, melt or otherwise somehow turn into a mess or emptyness..

[Beverly Trayner]

Yes! Here's to a mojo life - even in all the quiet corners of Portugal!