Turn up the Volume of Your Life – Create Your Own Moxie!

By Ann Tardy, Chief Catalyst at LifeMoxie!

Have you ever had a friend quit their job to start a business, change careers or sail around the world and wonder how they got the guts to do that? Do you watch the contestants on American Idol and wonder how they had the courage to sign up, let alone sing out loud? Do you marvel at Madonna, Lance Armstrong, Nelson Mandela, Ghandi, Jack Welch and Oprah and wonder how they came to be so big? They weren’t born with it. They created their own moxie and so can you using the nine essential strategies.

Strategy #1: Beat the Alarm Clock. Have some reason to get out of bed each morning. Be excited about something in your life, even if you have to make it up.

Strategy #2: Celebrate Your Wins. Take inventory of your past successes and accomplishments and know that you’ve done it before so you can do it again.

Strategy #3: Choose Your Channel. Surround yourself with Yaysayers – people who will say “yes!” to you, your goals, and your dreams. Change the channel on the Naysayers and stop listening to them.

Strategy #4: Say Yes First, Figure Out the How Later. Stop trying to figure everything out. Just jump and you’ll force yourself to come up with a plan on the way down.

Strategy #5: Act As If. Fake it ‘til you make it. This will give you the manufactured confidence you need to open doors of opportunity. Soon you will start to fee as confident as you look.

Strategy #6: Ask. Start asking for everything you need. Ask early and often to move you closer to your beat-the-alarm goal.

Strategy #7: Respond, Don’t Just React. Nothing ever goes exactly as planned so be prepared to learn the lesson and respond accordingly.

Strategy #8: Be Uncomfortable. Nothing great ever happens in the comfort zone. If you’re ready to pursue your beat-the-alarm goal, get ready to be uncomfortable!

Strategy #9: Keep Moving. Without movement, there is no moxie. Take the mountain of your goal and break them into molehills and start hopping over them.