MojoDave

Good Support Can Help Your Mojo I explained earlier that I believe support is essential to having your mojo workin ' .  There are two kinds of support, depending on when the support is received. Early support Current support Early support is something that you had to help you get started or to build a particular mindset.  Current support is the support you rely on today.  If you had early support, in addition to building a mindset, you can express it over a long period of time going forward. It may even carry over to today.  On the other hand, currents support can be beneficial to today's events. A person who has good support may exhibit other characteristics that lead to more mojo, such as motivation, willingness to act, faith, and even the accumulation of expertise and experience. The earlier model is simplified and does not show these possibilities.  This post will concentrate on the past and the present, i.e., early and current support. The r...

My Top Ten Classical Music Pieces It took  a lot of mojo to build this classical music list.  It will inspire your own mojo.  Many sources make lists. I have used them to build my own list for you.  Wikipedia is a source that does a good job of describing how a list is built.  But I don't rely on it for the list itself.  Instead, I have used several other lists to build my own for you.  I used Change your life , Most Famous , Greatest Pieces , Everyone Should Know , Inspirationa l, Best Of Classical , 100 Greatest Classical Works , and my own music library on Google Music as my sources.  In compiling my list, I emphasized increasing you mojo.  I excluded anything that was too sad or morose.  No funeral marches, no requiems, no dirges.  Ironically,I like sad music myself.  It helps me focus and gets my emotions going which is hard to do because I am naturally calm.  There are a lot of very good and sad pie...

Top Ten Sites You Must See It took  a lot of mojo to build these.  They will inspire your own mojo.  Many sources make lists. I have used them to build my own list for you.  Wikipedia is a source that does a good job of describing how a list is built.  But I don't rely on it for the list itself.  Instead, I have used several other lists to build my own for you.  I used World Atlas, Wonderslist ,  YouQueen , and 100 Wonders of the World as my sources.  In compiling my list, I emphasized human achievement, intrepidity,  and steadfastness. The people who built these wonders did not take no for an answer.  Their visions were at times unpopular, even ridiculed.  But through shear ingenuity and hard work, they got an amazing feat done.   I considered being early and not having an example of something similar to look at as qualifiers.  These wonders must of course be man-made.  They must not be  simply...

Systems or goals? On Quora, I was recently asked, "Is it necessary to set a goal so that you feel motivated to jump out of your bed every mornin g?" I think not. Consider the pros and cons of goals verses systems.  I think you will agree with me.  Goals Pros: Well defined, specific, easily time limited, easily measured. Cons: What do you do if they are met.? What do you do if time goes by and they are not met?  It's easy to rationalize waiting to test. Inflexible. Systems Pros: No time limit, usually a lifestyle change, flexible, adaptable to circumstances, systems become habits. Cons: No time limit, no well defined tests.   What comes after you test your goal?  Better to shoot for a process or a system. Find a system that you like instead of a goal. For example, you might say to yourself, "I am a runner."  "I will run regularly."  Each day, you get up and know that running is a process, a part of your being, that you will wan...