Episode 2: Start with Joy!

On this episode, you’ll get loads of practical tips and tricks to help you cultivate a practice of joy in your life. If you are looking for practical tools that you can implement today to lead a more joyful life, then this is the episode for you.

Listen in and learn why we need to START WITH JOY! And, how to do that.

In this episode, I cover:

• What joy means to you and how to recognize it,
• How to discover (or rediscover) what brings us joy, and
• How to cultivate a practice of joy, including overcoming some of the internal and external obstacles to joy.

In the first part of this episode, you will learn:

• Why your past can be the key to more joy in the present moment.
• How to use journaling to deep dive and understand what brings you joy.
• How to do a deep dive into journaling to move toward greater understanding of what brings you joy.
• How to hack the feeling of envy to use it as a guide for creating more JOY in your life.

In the second part of the episode, I’ll explain how to:

• Fit fun, joy, and enjoyment in your schedule life (especially if your day is jam-packed),
• Make the ordinary moments extraordinary,
• Add more “joyful flair” to your daily life, and
• Manage your own mind for more joy!

Quotables:

• "It is our responsibility as adult humans to manage our own minds and we can manage our minds to create more joy.”
• “You can add more 'joyful flair' to your life, even if you are a grown up.”
• "We are meant to live extraordinary lives, and we do that by making the ordinary extraordinary!”

You can have more joy in your life. It is within your reach. Let me show you how.

Resources in this episode:

The Book of Joy by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, by Helen Oxenbury and Michael Rosen

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