How To Increase Faith To Improve Your Mojo

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How To Increase Your Faith To Improve Your Mojo

First of all, it is important to understand what I mean by faith. This blog is about mojo and I will describe how having faith increases it. For example, if you have faith in your training, e.g., that you have been properly prepared for the current situation, you can perform better. But what is faith? 
There is a difference between faith and belief. Belief suggests that in this example you know that a given training regimen works and could handle your present situation. However, faith means that not only do you have the belief that the training is appropriate, but you act on it. Faith requires the additional step of investing yourself in the belief.
Now consider trust. The two words, faith and trust are closer together. Trust implies blindness to anything that might impede performance. For example,, that you trust a person to do well even if he isn’t prepared. Other than that, they are the same. So if everyone in your circle has followed their training properly, having faith in their performance is the same as trusting them.
Having made these distinctions, I am talking about faith in your abilities and training to enhance your mojo.

How can a person get more faith? I have six recommendations.
  1. Get and heed expert training. - You have probably experienced some training already. If it was good, you need to have faith that it will produce good results. If it wasn’t, get somebody new to train you and believe in him.
  2. Recognizing your’s and other’s abilities. - This is a good starting point. If you understand your activity you can tell if you are good and who else is good. Commit any evaluation that you make to memory. If necessary, keep a record of what each person is good at.
  3. Practice the above in small ways to gain additional confidence that they will work in bigger ways. - Don’t bite off more than you can chew. Start somewhere, start small and work your way up. Someone once said that the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Try out a new trainer on something small. Notice abilities on small things to get your feet wet.
  4. Don’t try to do everything yourself. - Delegate. Let others do their jobs while you stick to your’s. In basketball, they have a name for the type of gameplan in which one person does everything, taking over the game. It is called ”hero ball”. A team that plays hero ball will usually lose to a team that plays team ball.
  5. Accept that some failures will happen and move on. - Remember that sometimes you might be overmatched or that you or a teammate might make a mistake. Failures will take place. Learn from them. Don’t obsess over them. Set a good example of being quietly optimistic that your training and added experience will eventually bear fruit.
  6. Avoid overreacting to the effects of luck. Be humble. Sometimes, your opponent will get lucky and you will lose when you shouldn’t. Sometimes, you will get lucky and will win when you shouldn’t. Maintain an even keel. Never get too high or too low. Remind everyone that luck will even out and good training and skill will win over time.
These are my suggestions for adding faith to your arsenal when building your mojo. Two other opinions that talk about building trust, not faith, are here and here. You might learn from these alternate sources too. There is almost always more than one way to look at a problem.

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