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Health Care Facilities Management Society of New Jersey – January 19

MOJO How To Get IT,

How To Keep It,

How To Get It Back If You Lose It

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MOJO

• What is MOJO?

• Examples of professional or personal MOJO.

• The MOJO Paradox

• How do we get our MOJO back and keep it using the MOJO toolbox.

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MOJO – Definitions

• MOJO is the moment when we do something that’s purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. • MOJO is: that positive

spirit - toward what we are doing – now – that starts from the inside – and radiates to the outside.

MOJO – Paradox

“What really matters” in your life?

• Health

• Wealth

• Relationships

• Happiness

• Meaning

Our default response in life is

• Not to experience Happiness.

• Not to experience Meaning.

• To experience inertia.

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MOJO – Key factors• MOJO is impacted by four key

factors:

1. Identity – Who do we think we are?

2. Achievement – What have we done lately?

3. Reputation – Who do other people think you are and what have you done lately?

4. Acceptance – What can you change and when do you need to just “let it go”?

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Where You're “Living”

Sacrificing

Succeeding

Surviving Stimulating

Sustaining

Low High

Hig

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Short Term (Happiness)

Long

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(Mea

ning

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Identity

Programmed Identity

Created Identity

Reflected Identity

Remembered Identity

PAST

SELFOTHERS

FUTURE

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MOJO - ToolboxIDENTITY

1. Establish Criteria That Matter to You.

2. Find Out Where You’re “Living”.

3. Be the Optimist in the Room.

4. Take Away One Thing.

ACHIEVEMENT

5. Rebuild One Brick at a Time.

6. Live Your Mission in the Small Moments Too.

7. Swim in the Blue Water.

REPUTATION

8. When to Stay, When to Go.

9. Hello, Good-bye.

10. Adopt a Metrics System.

11. Reduce this number.

ACCEPTANCE

12. Influence Up as Well as Down.

13. Name It, Frame It, Claim It.

14. Give Your Friends a Lifetime Pass.