Ep. 106 A Life Filled with Joy, Beauty & Simplicity
Ep. 106 A Life Filled With Joy, Beauty & Simplicity
Do you ever wonder if it’s possible to find more happiness in ordinary life? This week, we’re talking about how to find more joy, beauty, and simplicity in the everyday.
We’re chatting about:
Finding more joy in repeatable tasks
Making your time count
Looking for opportunities for inspiration
Simplifying family adventures, outings, and vacations for more joy
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4 Ways to Find More Happiness in Your Ordinary Life
Finding Joy in Repeatable Tasks
Making sure your goals & to do’s are all connected to your unique purpose.
When you have your own personal Purpose Statement, you can use that to help you set your big goals and daily to do’s. This makes it so you’re aren’t just doing things that people told you to do or that you think you should do or have to do, but instead these everyday tasks are things you’ve chosen to help you live out your unique purpose!
Try finding a new gratitude practice that speaks to you. It could be by yourself or with your family, but just a time to recognize all that you’ve been given and all that you currently have.
Make a “We’re so lucky list”
Written prayer
Make little notes around the house to remind you what you now have (dishwasher, garage etc.)
Make a verbal list out loud while you’re driving with your kiddos.
Use a sense of curiosity
How could I do this task differently?
Use a sense of childlike discovery, as if you’re doing it for the first time
2. Making Your Time Count
Being mindful of your magic hours throughout the day and make those count!
It helps if you make the decision ahead of time, so that when you have some free time you aren’t wasting your time with distractions, but instead can get right to work on those tasks you already planned out. We like writing out when we want to accomplish our priority for the day in the beginning of the week or in the morning so we’re ready to go.
Creating home systems that work for you personally that you love repeating each week, like meal planning. This way those daily tasks seem less of a dread, because you’re quickly getting them done. Those daily tasks become more light and easy when you have a system that helps make things run smoothly.
3. Looking for Inspiration
Where can you find simple inspiration in your daily life?
Sometimes a simple hike on the weekend or trip to a local nursery can fill you up with inspiration to bring back to your home and day to day life.
4. Simplifying Family Adventures, Outings and Vacations for More Joy
Have you ever taken your kids on an expensive vacation only to find out that their favorite part of the trip was the little hotel pool?
Sometimes we forget that adventures, outings and vacations can be SIMPLE and yet beautiful!
In this episode we chatted about how we could experiment with adventures, outings and vacations that are filled with inspiration, discovery, exploration, beauty and simplicity. Places where our kids can be free and adventurous. Trips that are quite simple, yet filled with inspiration for us and our kids.
Do you have any tips on how to keep family outings filled with joy, inspiration and simplicity? We’d love to hear in the comments below!
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