Have you read Marshall Goldsmith’s new book MOJO, How to Get It, How To Keep It, and How To Get It Back If You Lose It? If you haven’t you should check it out.

I have always admired his work, and his way of thinking about leadership and thoroughly enjoyed What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.  Now, with his latest book, Marshall takes on that indefinable ‘something’ and makes it tangible.  MOJO is that sense of purpose of meaning we find in the moments of life when we feel fully engaged and alive.

His definition of MOJO goes like this:

Mojo

is that positive spirit

toward what we are doing

now

that starts from the inside

and radiates to the outside.

The key word in this statement is the word NOW.   Mojo is found in our present moment, not in the future, and not in the past, although we may have experienced it in the past. He says that MOJO is an exercise in self-assessment.

Think about that.  If we were to stop our daily busyness and ask ourselves for a moment, “what am I feeling?”  ”what am I doing?” “what is going on?” and take that personal assessment of your life at any given time, will you be able to say I’m living my life with meaning and purpose.  Are you experiencing joy, or indifference?  Are you dwelling in the negative or the positive?  When we stop and consider this, we give ourselves permission to think about things differently.  Engage with things differently.  Live a little more, and let go a little more.

The good feeling that you get from being on purpose and doing something meaningful radiates from the inside to the outside.  Pretty soon everyone within your circle knows how it feels because you’re sharing it by being more confident, being more self-assured, being more engaged than you’ve ever been before.

Are you ready to get your MOJO on?

Go buy his book and find out how to do it.