3 Steps to Increase Joy In Your Everyday Life
How to Increase Joy in Your Everyday life
Is there an area of your life that is generally good but could use an added dose of joy?
If so, you’re in the right place. Let’s see which area you’d love to experience just a little more joy in and then we’ll go over the 3 steps you can follow to experience more joy in that area!
Okay, so let’s first go over 4 very important relationships we all have in life and see which one you’d like to find more joy in. As you read them, see if there’s one area that sticks out to you the most.
1. God/spirituality
2. Family & loved ones
3. Community/work/creative work
4. Yourself/self care
Which one of these relationships do you want to find more joy in?
Once you’ve picked an area or relationship you’d like to add a little more joy to, all you need to do is follow the simple 3 step process:
1. Visualize
2. Experiment
3. Discover
Keep scrolling and we’ll walk through this process together.
3 Steps to Experience More Joy In Your Everyday Life
Okay so once you’ve found which area or relationship you’d like to have more joy in, you can just follow this simple 3 step process that works every time. Let’s see how this could work for you.
1. Visualize
First step is to visualize! (We love this part!)
Think of how you want to experience more joy in this area. What could that look like?
Now is a great time to access your future self and imagine your ideal life 5, 10 years from now. Ask your future self what her life looks like. How is she finding more joy in this area?
Picturing, imagining and visualizing is a great place to start to see what you actually want. What would be fun? What do you really want?
This is something we love to do right before bed. Just as we’re falling asleep we start to visualize and picture our ideal life and what that looks like.
2. Experiment
Once you’ve visualized, now it’s time to experiment and have fun trying things out! It doesn’t have to be perfect. Remember, you’re just experimenting. If you don’t like something or it’s not a good fit, try something else.
Now’s a great time to ask yourself, “What can I try right now? What sounds fun to try? What sounds interesting to me?” Start there.
It’s not about doing what you “should” do. Now’s a great time to try things you might not have tried before or haven’t done in awhile and use to love.
3. Discover
After you’ve visualized and experimented it’ll lead you to the third step, which is to discover.
By now you’ll have uncovered what you like and don’t like. Take a look at what worked and what didn’t work when you were experimenting and decide what you want to do moving forward.
This is where you can start to incorporate what you discovered into your everyday life and hopefully experience more joy than you had before!
It might even become a new habit, goal or a practice you now try.
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Podcast Ep. 131 3 Steps to Increase Joy In Your Everyday Life
Is there an area of your life that is generally good but could use an added dose of joy? In today’s episode we’re talking about 3 steps you can follow to experience more joy in any area of your life.
You’ll learn:
How to experience joy in 4 different relationships we all have in life
The 3 step process to follow in the relationship you choose
Examples of how to use that process
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