10 Motivational Tricks To Help Reclaim Your Mojo

Have you mislaid your mojo? Do you feel you’re losing a grip on your ability to be effective and successful at work and at home?

Nowadays people are time poor – there’s the commute to work, the job, the meetings, the deadlines – all followed up by demands made at home: the family expects dinner, the dog expects walking, the clothes expect washing and the house expects a clean now and then.

So it’s not surprising that many of us get tired, feel as if we’re on a never-ending treadmill and start to lose our mojo – that seemingly magical feeling when we get the new job, a promotion or something else that means a lot to us.

So here are our tips to get you motivated so you can get your mojo back.

1. Treat Your Body With Respect

If you’re exhausted you won’t perform at your best. The great ideas you used to have in the workplace will dry up as your brain feels like cotton wool. You’ll find yourself snapping at your partner and kids, because if they ask just one more thing of you, you’ll be likely to implode.

So treat your body with respect. It might sound boring, but eating healthily, minimising the number of alcoholic drinks you have each day, and getting an early night will help revitalise your body and mind.

2. Believe In Yourself

If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you expect others to believe in you? If you tend to think, “I can’t possibly do xyz”, stop yourself and change your thought process. If other people can do it, you surely can too. A positive mindset is a fundamental requirement for a motivated life.

3. Do A Job That Lights Your Fire

If you despise your job, you need to change. Life is far too short to waste it in a dead-end, unfulfilling job. Start investigating alternatives. Maybe you love the work but don’t like your colleagues – if so search for similar job vacancies at other companies.

Perhaps you have always wanted to do something completely different. Well don’t just sit there – find out exactly what you need to do to make it happen, whether that’s retraining or taking the leap to set up your own business.

Just by taking these first steps, your sleeping mojo will already be raising its head to find out if it’s time to wake up.

4. Ignore Negative People

If you can’t avoid them physically then simply tune out when they are repeating their negative, pessimistic tales of doom.

“Oooh,” they might say, “isn’t a career change at your time of life a bit risky?”

For negative people, any change from a safe, mind numbingly boring routine is a risk. So avoid them like the plague and continue believing in yourself and making sensible plans to make your life a happier one.

5. Make Time For Inspiring People

Positive people are a joy to be around. Their mojos are strong and bouncy and, well, inspiring. Think about what makes them so content – what do they do that you don’t? Can you learn something from their attitude to life? Let their positivity wash over you and you will feel enthusiastic and invigorated each and every meeting.

6. Delegate

How will you have time to refresh your body and mind, consider your long term career plans and meet up with inspiring people if you are getting snowed under by too much work and drudgery?

Delegate when you can to free up some of your time.

Don’t agree to work to unrealistic deadlines in your job – explain to the boss what you can and cannot achieve in the set time. Get all the family to help with chores – yes they’re boring but everyone needs to get stuck in.

7. Have Realistic Goals

A word of caution – set yourself realistic goals. If you set yourself a goal that is clearly without anyone’s reach, your setting yourself up for failure. And that will deflate your mojo once again.

Create a plan – around whatever it is that you want to change about your life – and break it down in to baby steps. Then when you nail each step, your sense of achievement will rocket.

8. Don’t Procrastinate

Stepping away from an unsatisfactory life takes guts. It’s far easier to put off doing anything with lots of “buts” and “what ifs”. However the procrastinator never achieves anything in life – they are too busy being cautious and sitting firmly in a rut. Which is such a shame.

Remember grab life with both hands and start living it. No more procrastination for you!

9. Bounce Back From Failure

No-one is immune to failure. Even the most famous entrepreneurs of all time have made some massive errors of judgement in their time. But if you fail at something, the most important thing is to dust yourself off and bounce right back.

You may have to adjust your plans a little, you may be a little more cautious next time, but failures are designed to help us get it right next time around.

10. Eat, Sleep, Motivate, Repeat

Keeping a positive and motivated grip on life takes a little effort. Don’t get complacent and fall back into bad habits. Keep revisiting your plan, taking stock of how healthy, fulfilled and motivated you feel, and regularly follow the advice above. Doing so should see you working happily at full capacity – yep, you’ll have reclaimed your mojo.