degadar
08-07-2008, 11:39 AM
There's a distinctly odd way with people how the things that motivate us are all so different.
I'm not really materialistic and certainly not extrovert. If you want to know who I am, I'm the Joe stood at the back of the crowd wearing the same jeans as I was wearing 4 years ago.
A month or so ago we were burgled at home and the car keys (and subsequently car) were stolen. I went out and bought an old Landrover to keep me mobile but something I didn't expect happened - I lost my confidence too. It was like my personal 'evidence' to myself that I can achieve something in business was gone. All the other evidence, however evident, didn't have any power over me as my own proof. I slid even quieter to the back of the crowd.
There was something 'nice' about the invisibility I felt driving a many year old Landrover for a while, but I wasn't making decisions confidently and I had much less confidence in my own abilities.
Losing my Mojo was a good reminder to me about how hard it is for me to remember to consider and respect the things that motivate my staff and my customers. How many times have I been asked by a member of staff what their job title should be? I would normally brush them aside telling them to make something up because it doesn't really matter. Asking to be given a title isn't something you do if titles don't matter to you, is it?
Anyway, happy ending because the insurance company (http://www.norwichunion.com/) Norwich Union (shameless plug because I like them very much), delivered me my brand new shiny Porsche Cayenne this week. Mojo restored, and owner suitably taught yet another valuable lesson. Or two.
I'm not really materialistic and certainly not extrovert. If you want to know who I am, I'm the Joe stood at the back of the crowd wearing the same jeans as I was wearing 4 years ago.
A month or so ago we were burgled at home and the car keys (and subsequently car) were stolen. I went out and bought an old Landrover to keep me mobile but something I didn't expect happened - I lost my confidence too. It was like my personal 'evidence' to myself that I can achieve something in business was gone. All the other evidence, however evident, didn't have any power over me as my own proof. I slid even quieter to the back of the crowd.
There was something 'nice' about the invisibility I felt driving a many year old Landrover for a while, but I wasn't making decisions confidently and I had much less confidence in my own abilities.
Losing my Mojo was a good reminder to me about how hard it is for me to remember to consider and respect the things that motivate my staff and my customers. How many times have I been asked by a member of staff what their job title should be? I would normally brush them aside telling them to make something up because it doesn't really matter. Asking to be given a title isn't something you do if titles don't matter to you, is it?
Anyway, happy ending because the insurance company (http://www.norwichunion.com/) Norwich Union (shameless plug because I like them very much), delivered me my brand new shiny Porsche Cayenne this week. Mojo restored, and owner suitably taught yet another valuable lesson. Or two.