steva robbins here welcome to the get it done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more reading author marshal goldsmith's book mojo how to get it how to keep it and how to get it back if you lose it i realized my mojo had vanished last night the zombie reanimation powder canister was almost empty,

so I went to the kitchen to whip up a batch. While adding the monkey fur soaked in kerosene,

I was suddenly struck by an overwhelming sense of futility. Why bother dominating the world anyway?

I mean, can you imagine? You sit around all day saying, I'm king of the world, I'm king of

the world. Boring. When you discover you're going through the motions, maybe you've lost your mojo.

One of the most common questions readers send in is how to regain enthusiasm for their jobs.

It's hard to be productive in work as swift as a coursing river when you're not

psyched. Paradoxically, the less engaged you are, the more time you spend doing what doesn't

engage you. What is mojo? Mojo is the combination of happiness and meaning that excites and

motivates you. Marshall suggests using a daily mojo log to find out where your mojo has gone. When you're done

with an activity, jot down on your log how happy it made you and how meaningful you found it. By the

end of the day, you'll have a good idea of where you have high and low mojo. Bernice created a mojo

not surprisingly filling out expense reports had low mojo.

The task was not meaningful, nor did it make her happy.

But her log brought her some surprises.

Her goddess rituals were meaningful, but didn't make her happy, since they conflicted

with her sex in the city reruns.

Eating ice cream bonbons made her happy, but didn't seem meaningful.

Offering me useful advice on how to do my job, she rated that as both happy and meaningful.

Psy, great.

When something you do is low mojo, get your mojo back by adding what's missing or by dropping

the activity altogether. Bernice easily boosted the mojo of her your mojo back by adding what's missing or by dropping the activity altogether.

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