"Don't Lose Your Mojo" by S. Anthony Iannario

I read this on S. Anthony Iannarino's site The Sales Blog. Anthony is the President and Chief Sales officer for SOLUTIONS Staffing in Columbus, Ohio, and he's an adjunct faculty member at Capital University’s School of Management and Leadership. To read the following blog post in it's original format, click here.

Don’t Lose Your Mojo
February 17, 2013 by S. Anthony Iannarino

It doesn’t matter that you failed. It doesn’t matter that you lost the client, lost the opportunity, or lost the job. It doesn’t matter that you did your best and that your best wasn’t good enough. The events or the circumstances that led to your failing don’t matter either. There are only three things that matter now.

First, you need to derive any lessons you can from your failure. The price of an education is experience. And the price of experience is failure. What did you learn?

Second, it matters that you pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and step back into the arena. Your past performance isn’t necessarily indicative of your future performance. Lots of people failed countless times before finally breaking through. But to succeed in the future, you have to try again.

But the most important thing I saved for last: You can’t lose your mojo. You are a value creator. You live by the Value Creator’s Code. Because you are a value creator, it’s time to reengage with the world and the opportunities in front of you with all the confidence in your abilities that you had when you tried and failed. It’s time to step back in with all of your mojo, all of your confidence. It’s time to reengage your head, your heart, and your guts. All of these things are still alive inside you. Or they could be.

The world is waiting for you to make a difference. We’re counting on you. A lot of people are counting on you. Get your mojo working.