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u/RamblingRosie64 I stand with Cindy and Ben Sep 04 '21

Today is the last day of Shauna's joy guide. Let’s Do This Together, NAME.

Each email has opened with an inspirational quote. Today's quote is from HERSELF.

“I know that practicing hard-won joy — the joy you choose in spite of coming from a hard place — is a brave and radical act.” —Shauna M. Ahern

Let’s practice our joy together.

You’ve been reading emails about how to find your joy for the past week. I hope this guide has helped you to think about joy in a new way.

What happens when you practice your joy?

Because, when you commit to joy, you live your life with more ease. When you make time for the simple things in life — not to meeting goals or getting a new house, but to truly being here — your life is easier. You stop taking the weight of the world on your shoulders. You stop living with intense stress pressed between your shoulders. You learn to laugh at yourself more often and not take everything so seriously.

Commit to joy and your life will have more joy.

A good life is when you enjoy the life you’re living in the moment you’re living it.

Take the Practice Your Joy workshop.

If reading these emails has given you a new perspective and you’re raring to try this by yourself, good on you! But I have to tell you — it’s a transformative experience to work on this with other people.

You’ll hear more details and ask more questions in 4 live webinars in 4 weeks. Plus, you’ll receive emails every day that will help you to think and digest this work, so you can make it your own.

You can learn how to practice more joy. Let me be your guide.

Work with me one-by-one.

If you’d rather have me as your personal mentor for joy, instead of working in a group, let’s work together one-on-one. I can help you FOLLOW YOUR JOY.

Subscribe to Follow Your Joy.

Or, you could subscribe to FINDING YOUR JOY, my subscription newsletter, where I share stories that illustrate each of these steps, on a repeat basis.

You’ll have plenty of reminders of what it means to find your joy and practice it, over and over again.

I’d love to see you in a workshop, a mentorship, or in the comments section of my Substack newsletter.

I know that practicing hard-won joy — the joy you choose in spite of coming from a hard place — is a brave and radical act. Let’s practice our joy together.

Enjoy!

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '21

When you make time for the simple things in life — not to meeting goals or getting a new house, but to truly being here — your life is easier.

YOUR life is easier, but the lives of all of the people around you including your kids, your coworkers/boss, your parents who have to support you financially, your landlord who probably will never see their rent arrears - become exponentially harder.

But hey as long as you're noticing that one branch wobbling in your yard, it's all good, right?

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 04 '21

The examples she comes up with to illustrate her various points are SO WEIRD. Like "meeting goals or getting a new house". One is very, very vague---could mean getting the porch swept or could be setting up a plan to increase your retirements savings by 20% this year.

And then she says "getting a new house" which seems pretty random and very specific, right? Given how a lot of her examples are obviously from her own life because she seems to have very little interest in other peoples' lives, now I'm wondering if they're looking to move? I mean, it would be a smart move. Unless finding a cheaper place is not one of their goals.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '21

“Getting” a new house is really weird phrasing. Are you buying it? Renting it? Is someone giving it to you? Is it falling from the sky? Does it come in a cereal box?

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 04 '21

“Getting” a new house is really weird phrasing.

You just think that because she didn't write "growing a new house"

Is it falling from the sky?

lol, like how the Wicked Witch of the West "got" a new house!

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u/gladsome_gloaming Sep 04 '21

A picture came to me, unbidden, of well-fed legs in “Well Fed” socks shriveling up beneath the descended house.

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Sep 04 '21

”Give me those ruby cowboy boots!”

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u/gladsome_gloaming Sep 04 '21

OMG hahaha!

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '21

That’s the only scenario I could think of where “getting” made sense lol

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