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Monday Mojo: Ponds vs. River – What Type of Water are You?

By Tom Tognoli | March 15th, 2010 0 Comments

Do you know what percent of our body is water? We BEGIN life as a fetus at 99%. When we are born, it drops to about 90%. Then the average human body settles in around 70%. So, from a simple physical perspective, we are all made up for the most part of water!

Let me ask you a simple question – if you had a choice to drink from a body of water, which would you prefer – a river or a pond? Why?

Water in a river remains pure because it is moving, and it is generally agreed that the quicker it is moving, the more pure it is. When water is stagnating, trapped, or immobile, what happens? It collects a lot of crap and becomes polluted. Right?

So, what is the message we all can learn from water?

That it is critical for us to continue moving fast and forward if we are interested in improving. Otherwise we could be in danger of becoming idle, polluted, and turn into crap. It is interesting to note that as children, we are expected to grow and improve every year mentally, physically and emotionally. That is why we have different grades in school. And each year you must improve to continue on.

Then we graduate and what happens? Most people’s growth process stops or slows down drastically. And the unfortunate thing is when we stop growing, we don’t stay the same. We actually start to move backwards year after year. What are you doing to improve every year mentally, physically and emotionally? Are you reacting to life or are you attacking and taking from it?

Let’s all make a commitment to keep in action, keep moving, changing, flowing – mentally, physically, and emotionally. It is going to help purify who we are. Let’s choose to not turn into crap. Let’s choose to continue to become more pure!

Side Note:

Be sure and drink lots of water since 70% of our body is made up of it and we don’t want it just sitting in our bodies stagnant like a dirty pond – purge the old and replenish with new fresh clean water every day.

Like most of you, one of my New Year’s resolutions is to eat healthier. There is a group of about 20 people I am doing a food log with. Every day we send everyone in the group an e-mail with everything we ate/drank for the day, everything!  It is amazing how much of an impact this little exercise has on your daily eating habits. One of the most important things we do in our group is keep each other accountable for drinking lots of water. I have been drinking about 100 ounces a day.

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Monday Mojo: How come kids are so smart?

By Tom Tognoli | February 15th, 2010 0 Comments

TognoliLast Sunday was little league baseball try outs and my son Nick was so fired up, he absolutely LOVES baseball. Nick has no doubt that come time for college he will be playing baseball at UCLA, and soon thereafter will be drafted by the New York Mets.  You have to love kids.  They know anything is possible and they dream big.

Here is what Nick, who is only 10 years old, told me just before his tryouts – “Dad did you know your dreams can come true as a long as you give it all of your effort?”  How come kids are so smart? We all know Nick’s revelation is true. Unfortunately, as we get older all too often, not only do we stop dreaming, but we stop giving it all of our effort.

This week’s Mojo is short and sweet, but I think Nick hit the nail squarely on the head.  Dream big and give that dream 100% of your effort – this is the recipe for success. I also think it’s the recipe to remain fired up and young at heart throughout your life.

Thanks Nick.

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Monday Mojo: Burning the Boats

By Tom Tognoli | January 18th, 2010 0 Comments

As we start the 3rd week of the New Year, now is when it really starts to get hard to keep up with those resolutions. When I went to the gym over the weekend, I was shocked by the number of cars in the parking lot. I’m not sure why, I shouldn’t have been, it was the same thing last year. There must have been 10 times the number of people there compared to last month. Over the last two weeks gyms all around the world have been flooded with millions of additional people. The unfortunate thing is, it’s the same millions of people who were in the gym the first week of January last year….and the year before that…and the year before that…and the year before that…and by February 1st it will be back to the old regulars.

So, why can’t we keep it up?

Whether it is going to the gym, spending more time with our kids and/or spouse, eating healthier, whatever it is – what can we do to keep those resolutions and make them changes for a lifetime, not just a week or a month? The answer is good old discipline and accountability. If we are truly committed to having a better life, we need to tell everyone we know about our resolutions and ask them to help hold us accountable. We have to burn the boats, so to speak, and not give ourselves a way back to the old us – the one who hits the snooze bar. Because if we don’t burn the boats, so there is no going back when the going gets tough, we are simply going to revert back to all our old bad habits.

Now, when you are too tired to keep your commitments, too tired to keep inspired, too tired to keep being disciplined and accountable, play this video and ask yourself, what would Lance say to you?

Lance Armstrong

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Monday Morning Mojo: Get More of What You Want in 2010

By Tom Tognoli | December 21st, 2009 0 Comments

Merry Christmas and thank you. Thank you for the gift of opportunity to share Monday Morning MOJO with you. By having to think, research and create ideas to share every week it has forced me to reaffirm what is important to me in my life.  By writing Monday Morning MOJO I have also attracted into my life more of the things which are important to me, my family, my friends and our company.  As we have discussed in past Monday Morning MOJO’s, one of the best ways to get more of what you want in life is to help others get more of what they want. I hope I have been able to help you do just that - you have certainly helped me. You have been my best accountability partner in 2009. So, don’t forget to get more of what you want next year – help others get more of what they want. You have to give to get!

So, what do you want Monday Morning MOJO to provide you for Christmas?  I have been sending out Monday Morning MOJO now for over a year and I thought I would ask you what you are struggling with in life, what breakthroughs are you wanting to accomplish but just can’t quite seem to make it happen? What questions do you want Monday Morning MOJO to help with? Do you have an inspirational story to share – one which you think can make a difference for the thousands of people who receive Monday Morning MOJO?  It’s the stories of real experiences which truly make the difference and have the largest impact.

My gift to you today for Christmas is MOJO.

What exactly is MOJO you ask?
MOJO defined is:

  • A magic charm or spell
  • The art or practice of casting magic spells
  • An object, as an amulet or charm that is believed to carry a magic spell
  • MOJO is me sending you success, health, and happiness.

Merry Christmas and click here to enjoy a holiday slide show.

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Monday Morning Mojo: Don’t Make Life a “Crash Diet”

By Tom Tognoli | December 14th, 2009 0 Comments

Applying the “crash diet” method to anything in life simply doesn’t work.

Life is a marathon. Make sure you are going at a pace you can maintain so you finish the race.

So, many times in life people make commitments they just can’t keep. Often at first those over extended commitments are kept, but only for a short period of time. They simply become too much, too fast and end up impossible to maintain. And if they are maintained it’s usually with compromised efforts resulting in a job poorly done.

We all have goals we want to accomplish in our life and there are lots of different ways we can go about accomplishing them. The one thing I know for sure is we will never accomplish anything if we try and do it all.  We have to pick the few most important, and create a system enabling us to go at pace we can maintain for the long haul.  If we can stick to our plan – we can experience the benefits of “The Slight Edge“.

I know people who one week do this, the next week do that, and the next week are onto something else. They never give anything an opportunity to gain traction all because they make commitments they cannot keep. This type of person ends up living in a life of frustration, anxiety, disappointment, and anger.

Remember it’s the accumulation effect of the small things we do over a long period of time that will make the HUGE difference.  It’s not the HUGE things we do over the short term, and it is not about doing the most. Make a few changes you can commit to for a lifetime, don’t try and jam in too much and you will experience magic. It is why things like crash diets never work. You may lose the 10, 20, 50, or 100 pounds quickly, but I promise you will gain it all back and then some. The key is to create systems and a lifestyle you can maintain for a lifetime – not just a week, a month, or a year.

Check out this book – do what it says, and experience the “Slight Edge” breakthrough:  The Slight Edge

Make it a powerful week!!!!!

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