10 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR JOY

10 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR JOY

EPISODE #74
Today’s episode is going to cover:

10 ways to increase your joy and your happiness
7 joy killers you must avoid
12 small ways you can spread joy to others in big ways

WE’RE TALKING ABOUT JOY THIS WEEK!
WHY JOY?

The idea of joy changed my life. Ok, it was the word JOIE itself that moved me most, and the French phrase JOIE DE VIVRE. The day I realized joy was a choice was the day everything about my attitude towards life changed. I became happier, healthier, more confident and optimistic.

WHAT IS JOY?

Joy defined: a feeling of great pleasure and happiness; keen pleasure; elation
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. – John Keats
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RELECTION QUESTIONS:

Have you found joy in your life?
Has your life brought joy to others?

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Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. –Greg Anderson
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My answers to those questions:

Yes – I find it in my relationship with God, I find it in the small pleasures of life – les petits plaisirs, I find it in writing, I find it in movement, I find it in optimism, I find it in the celebration of things, I find it in learning, I find it in the sunrise, I find it in the cool breeze of the fan above my bed, I find it in brushing my teeth, I find it wherever and whenever I can.
I make this question a part of my conscious daily goals.

I believe, no matter your circumstances, you CAN have joy in your life.

THE JOY BLACKLIST:

Perfectionism
Underestimating Your Worth
Striving for External Measures of Success
Try to Do it All
Agonizing over Past Mistakes
Focusing on