MOJO is a funny thing, you sure as hell know when you have it, but it is really hard to find when you lose it!

Mine is lost; been looking for it for a while now, yet still nothing – *sigh*.

I have just finished facilitating an appreciative inquiry for a bunch of senior managers in a mining company. An appreciative inquiry is a method of getting people to focus on what is working for them in order to build more of that, rather than focus on what is not working, and trying to problem solve. There is a set of assumptions that sit behind an appreciative inquiry as follows: there is always something that works, what we focus on becomes our reality, there are multiple realities and the act of asking questions influences the moment.

The inquiry has four parts to it:

Discover: what is working well?
Dream: what would I like to be, do or have?
Design: how am I going to achieve what I want to be, do or have?
Deliver: what can I influence, what can I do and by when?

It got me thinking that if I preach this stuff, I should be able to live it and apply the assumptions to myself, so I went on a path of discovery to identify what is working for me and I came up with the following list aptly titled:

These are a few of my favourite things

I love I can get out of bed in the morning… that sentence could finish there, but I will continue with… and sit at my computer and write. I write story, I blog, I tweet, I email, I message.

I love that I have i-tunes on my computer and I download songs. I am back in touch with song. I have my guitar; I am remembering chords and can play and sing ‘Bridge over troubled water.’ I first learnt this song on my guitar when I was fifteen.

I love hanging out with my friends. I love doing long lunches, just chatting and enjoying. I love walking and playing with my dogs. I love being connected to friends via text. I love texting, I love hearing the sound of a new text message beep on my phone. I love my family. I love life. I love…

Yep, it works. When you start to realise all the things that are good in your life, you realise how blessed you are, well at least I did.

So ok, I get my life can function without mojo. But imagine the possibilities with mojo? Now there’s a thought, so I think I will keep looking a little longer. Yoohoo, mojo… where are you mojo? Here mojo …

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