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Are you finding JOY? My friend Michelle has some great tips. 

Transcript:

Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2 minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. 

I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and my friend Michelle hosts an interactive newsletter and membership called Pieces of Me.  Link in the transcript. The other day, her newsletter was about being intentional about finding and creating JOY.   Her journal prompts included three questions: 

- What does JOY mean to you? 

- What memories of JOY do you have? 

- What do you associate with JOY? 

Have you ever sat with your thoughts and asked yourself, what makes you happy? 

Over the next few weeks, Michelle’s community is intentionally focusing on Joy and some tips that Michelle has for us to cultivate and be intentional about this exercise are: 

- To create a JOY Inspiration Board ~ fill a piece of paper with images and words that bring you or remind you of JOY. 

- Go on a JOY Hunt ~ notice what it is that brings you JOY, in your daily surroundings. 

- Keep a JOY Journal ~ write 5 things each day which made you smile, brought happiness, or fed JOY. 

- Talk about JOY ~ all the time! 

- Write “joy” in capital letters, whenever you write ~ enJOY, enJOYment, JOYful etc. 

These are such a practical and tangible way to think about emotions and just to have a little bit of fun when it can feel like the world is heavy with all the things going on.  I hope this inspires you as much as it did me and that you go about your day and take notice of what brings you JOY and gives you a little boost of happiness.  

Join me over on social to continue this discussion.  I’m at @everydayhappinesswithkatie. 

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Michelle’s Group, Pieces of Me: https://piecesofme.mn.co/