Personal Growth
I’ve evolved quite a bit since starting this site.
When I first conceived GroovyMojo, I was recovering from divorce, recovering from the dot.com crash, and working at a fall-back job doing computer support. I was rather lost at the time, and decided I needed to rediscover my path in life.
As I did some introspection of my own passions and interests, and searched for new things to help me on my way, this web site came about. When I first put it together it was an experiment, just to see what I could do. And I put the context ads on it to see if it would support itself. When people asked me, "What’s it about?" I didn’t know how to answer. "Everything, I guess," is what I’d finally say.
"Groovy" means good, and "mojo" means magic. I wanted some good magic in my life. I write science fiction and fantasy, so I actually think about magic quite a bit. I think I’ve come to understand it, the way it really works, and it’s not actually supernatural.
Magic — real magic, not trickery — comes from thought, intention, and deed, all together. The magic part comes from the synergy of the three. Synergy, an over-used buzz word, is the term for the total being greater than the sum of the parts. It a real phenomenon. And that is how I define magic in our mundane world.
You mix a positive attitude, a lot of thought, solid realistic goals, passion, and action, and you get groovy mojo.
Good magic.
Good things start happening because you draw the good things to yourself. Your success builds upon itself, and gets stronger. You achieve goals and set new ones.
I worked myself into better jobs. I achieved my goal of becoming a full time professional writer. Then, as I realized — in a professional sense — what I really enjoyed is creating and maintaining websites, I worked myself into a position where I do that for a huge multinational corporation.
Even better, I’ve found someone who I love without measure, a person that I seemed to be designed for at a molecular level, and she for me as we11. I can’t imagine someone more perfect.
Groovy mojo works. It worked for me. If it can work for me, it can work for anyone. The requirements are that you have to believe, and you have to want it, and you have to be determined to study the ways that you sabotage yourself and develop ways to keep it from happening.
It’s an ongoing process. You don’t set it up, get it going, and step back from it. You have to live it.
That’s why, when I stumbled upon the quote, "Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself," I instantly knew that had to be my mantra, and so I made it the theme of this website.
So now if someone asks me what this website is about, I know what to tell them.
It’s about creating yourself.
20080318 7:48 am
Has anyone ever told you that you sound phenomenally like your eldest daughter?
Especially the part where you said that the requirements are that you have to believe, and you have to want it. *nods sagely*
Then again, if I didn’t know any better I’d call you the new Dr Phil. *ducks*
I believe in what you say. Not believe, that is, in some bizarre cultish ’sacrifice a large potato to the Divine Jerry’ sort of way, but in a more heartfelt understanding that at the end of the day, if you don’t want it - whatever “it” may be - in the most stubborn, entirely and deeply truthful of ways, then you’ll likely never get it.
I think that love in itself is a perfect example. But that would just be my soppy side blabbering on again.
And I love that quote - “Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.” I think I’ll take that to the grave with me. Or, at the very least, wherever they scatter my ashes. After all - how can one find what’s not there? Sort of like Columbus stumbling upon India - nice try, wrong continent.