Alison: How do you protect your mojo?

Wendy: I do wonder though, given the optimising for peace that you speak of so beautifully, how you maintain your peace within while attending to what needs to be done for your family, your business, and other things in your life which can be quite fraught in this uncertain world? In other words, how do you maintain your peace when the world outside you is often anything but peaceful?

Rachel: I've been leaning into joy lately. Reading about it, fostering it, embracing and enabling it more and more in my life. So, my question is, how do you, or do you, find and foster joy in your daily life, and, how does that manifest?

Thank you Alison, Wendy, and Rachel for these intertwined questions.

I think protecting my mojo, my spirit, my energy is incredibly important. It’s the source of everything else I do. I’ve prioritised this for a long time. I’ve run many different experiments see what works for me. I’ve got a lot of structures and habits that help.

I’m also incredibly fortunate that I’m in a place where I’ve got time and resources to do all this stuff.

I think that optimising for peace and leaning into joy are both things that protect my mojo. Hence combining these questions.

Without further ado, here’s a list of some of the things I do to protect my mojo:

Meditate – at least an hour a day.
Sleep – mostly in bed by 10pm, and 7 – 8 hrs sleep.
Move – gym twice a week, and something active every day.
Nutrition – have a fairly clean diet, and get support around this.
Nature – walk through the bush by the river 3 – 4 times a week.
Retreat – every three months I spend 3 days by myself, in the bush.
Relationships – I prioritise time with people that fill my cup.
Stuff – I try not to keep accumulating stuff.
Money – we spend less than we earn, and manage our money in a way that (mostly) reduces stress.

And the thing that sits above all of this is the decision I’ve made to design my life in a way that protects my mojo.