You’re rushing down the street. Excited and anxious to get to your business appointment on time. You glance at your watch. Looks like you’ll just make it on time when… you realize… you left your baby on the bus!!!

Is your mojo out of whack? If you find yourself running ragged and dropping things through the cracks, it’s a sign that your mojo is out of whack. Pull your Mojo in!… And what is your mojo? You may ask. It’s your ‘Universal Resource’…that part of yourself that is the universal joint in the drive shaft that is your life.

It’s your magic… your spark that gets things done. We often forget that the power that moves our lives comes from within. Some of us don’t even know it’s there. We need it for raising children. If it’s scattered, pull it in.

So, what do I mean by scattered mojo? Well, it’s when we attempt to have our point of focus on more than one thing at a time. Our energy gets scattered in all directions like a single beam of light going through a prism. Remember prisms? Anyway, the light goes through, gets divided into many beams that are not as strong as the light that was the single point of focus. The resulting light is watered down, weaker, fainter. That’s why multitasking isn’t a good idea. The brain can do only one thing well at a time. And it literally does that… just one thing at a time even though you think you’re doing many.

What does all this have to do with communicating with our children? Well, scattered Mojo, watered down by too many things to do or grief, pain or depression is a leading cause of grief, pain and depression. It’s an absolute self-fulfilling prophecy …a wet soggy mess that needs airing out and fluffing up. If you’re impatient or snappy in your communications with your family, check your feelings. If overwhelm is part of them, it’s a sign your Mojo is out of whack.

Raising children is the task at hand. It is an all-consuming love challenge, the ultimate Life project, second to none. Requirements are that we seek ambitiously to create the best family unit we can. To do this we MUST have our energy for family intact and refresh it and ourselves on a daily basis. What do you do to refresh your energy on a daily basis?

Make a note of this: I (meaning You) am Dean and Chancellor of Home University. As the Deans and Chancellors of Home University, as the Super-Heroes to our wee ones, it’s imperative that we keep in touch and in tune with our Mojo. Parenthood is a serious 18+ years project. At their birth we’re to pick up the mantle and engage as a Life coach.

We are training our children for greatness as we’re being trained in grace. Once the child is here, what is the big benefit to us? It is that, if we allow it, we are forever changed and inspired to the better and best we could possibly be. They are our call to Mt. Olympus. Isn’t that what deep, unconditional love does?

Why is mojo important in communicating with our children? Well, aside from what I’ve already stated, children are still in loud tune with Original Mojo. Think of it as taking up a significant amount of that 93% of in-person communication that is non-verbal.

It’s that part of communication that’s there before telepathy. It colors and flavors the message that being communicated. As Dean and Chancellor of Home University, does your home curriculum take into account the outrageous genius of your child(ren)? Does it respect and reflect yours?

I won’t dissect the intimate components of mojo here. That’s best done in my mentoring sessions. Let’s just say that for as many people as there are in the household, there is at least a multiple of three on each person as to the color and flavor of their exceptional natural capacity of intellect. The good news is, we can relax and just let it show and express itself. Remember this: Our exercise is to ‘relax’.

Mojo injects play. Let me tell you about one of my most favorite uncles. His nickname was Jabbo. He’s long gone now but his spirit, his mojo lives on in me. Like most people, he had a dark side but for me, it was his mojo that made him stand out.

He was upbeat and funny and was always playing and wrestling with us kids. I was born and raised poor in the South. My whole extended family was poor, including my uncle but he exuded a loud jovial confidence that made us feel magical.

I think the other expression for it is joie de vie. Joy of Life. Toward the end of his life, his dastardly deeds caught up with him but his big contribution to MY life was the Joy he brought to me every time I saw him… having a boring afternoon? Wrestle with Uncle Jabbo, he was always down with it for us kids. Stranded at school in the rain? He’d swoop in and pick us up. He always seemed to be there to the rescue. Magically. It’s the magic of Life that fascinates me to this day. That was his contribution. This illustrates the influence and contribution of others as well as parents.

When things are going your way and in a consistent flow, that’s your mojo working. When we’re able to identify it and work with it until it’s virtually tangible, we’re able to melt it into our kids. Do you have this as a subject of study and exploration in your home curriculum?

When our kids get a handle on their mojo, they’re happier and able to have more things go their way (that we want them to have go their way). Heaven forbid the kids have more mojo than YOU!!! What do you think will happen in that case? Would you be at their mercy? Would they bully you?

Honing a skill like that when they’re children helps to make their adult life a lot happier and easier as well. I’m sure you’ve met people that you considered magical. That whatever they touched turned to gold. Well, we’ve read about them at least…

It doesn’t HAVE to be only the upper 1/10th of 1% who we recognize as having their mojo working. There are some truly spectacular teachers, scientists and uber drivers out there who have it like that as well. What is your measurement of success? Is it happiness?

How does one develop their expression of their mojo? Remember this: your innate essence powers your mojo. To develop an ever flowing stream of mojo, joy, things going the way you want, all it takes is an absolute quiet in your negative thought and feeling activity. Developing that absoluteness is the exercise. How do you do this? If you want help with it, connect with me through the parenting assessment posted at the end of this program.

What if we don’t care about getting our mojo working? Then, the wheels come off the tricycle and we fall off! Have you ever heard the expression ‘Man cannot live on bread alone’? We need flavor and variety in our lives to keep our brains healthy. Our central nervous systems spark off of a certain amount of sugar… the sweetness in our lives. Our children are doomed to boring themselves and everyone else to death with their crassness if we don’t show them that mojo is something to aspire to ALL of their lives. Have them and yourself put the electronics down and hang out with their electrical insides.

From a global standpoint, a substantial loss in a sense of humor is what ails the world today. A sense of humor flavored with a healthy dose of humanity, understanding and compassion would cure a lot of ills, particularly in people who want to war. Using that power for good, good meaning loving people, is what mojo is all about.

Nationally, we as parents, lead the way in having love, joy and understanding [aka mojo] be the priority in how we conduct ourselves amongst ourselves and other nations. Our vested interest in our child’s future happiness and well-being as well as our own is the motivating factor. We sentence ourselves to self-annihilation or implosion if we don’t. What is your choice in this matter?

Locally, and in the home, is where it all starts. The attitudes, the attributes, the integrity, the humanity, respect, the compassion, the joy, ALL take root in the home. Our domain. If it is to be, it’s up to ‘we’. Are you on board with this? How easy is this? It’s as easy as ‘let it be’. It’s as easy as rain. It’s as easy as you already know it all.

When we as babes dawned upon this planet, we came here with a purity of spirit. Remember this: our pure spirit is our joie de vie, our mojo. It is the seat of our mojo. May it reign forever.

Our children come here with this same purity of spirit. When we remember that, we need to identify it in ourselves at the same time. This is one of the beauties of having children. They remind us of who we really are.

So tell me, what is your favorite way to keep your Mojo workin’? Here at The SAVE YOUR BREATH TV SHOW we help parents eliminate the stress and aggravation of parenting, whether your child is 5 or 50! If you need help with that, take advantage of the Complimentary Parenting Breakthrough Session you receive when you submit the parenting assessment at www.saveyourbreath101.com/parenting-assessment. It’s a $250 value for free for a limited time.