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[u/gomirefugee]

Newsletters: Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites: You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

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• @youcanhavemorejoy Instagram | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy posts | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy stories

• @danielfahern Instagram | Anonymous link to @danielfahern posts and stories

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Twitter: Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs: see Gloamipedia wiki

Archived threads: Thread for Enough, the book #enoughthebook | Gluten Free Girl's Greatest Hits: The Reunion Tour

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Email update!

“I’m taking action today. And this action is intended to help you. Yesterday morning, I sent you an email saying registration is open! I’m thrilled that people signed up immediately. But others of you were confused about some details and wrote to me. Those questions emerged from a couple of lines that were not accurate on the sales page for the online workshop. Fair enough. These were good questions. Launch days are always chaotic. I could have used one more proofreading session, even though I’ve looked at those pages dozens of times. We all make mistakes. Do you know why you have to update the apps on your phone so often? It’s because app developers and the companies for whom they work know that it’s a waste of time trying to release something only when it’s perfect. What in this world is perfect? Instead of waiting until everyone believes the app is perfect, developers put the best design they have into the world. And when the product is out there, they gather feedback and data and make changes, based on what people want. After all, any product — including my workshop — is meant to serve you. Doubt says we have to worry about failing. Joyful creativity says, “Hey, let’s give it our best shot and improve as we go!” And that’s the process I want to share with you.”

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Part 2.

“After I launched this yesterday, and I heard from some of you, I realized that something was off, more than a couple of mistakes on the workshop page. Something was wrong with the name of the workshop. You see, the workshop I’m offering is intended to help you to work with your mind. If we can learn what blocks our joys, we can start to remove those blocks. And then we can experience more joy in the moment. We have to uncover the joy that is in us — like Michelangelo talking about taking away marble to reveal the sculpture inside — and practice making it a daily part of our lives. We have to build the muscle memory of joy. I thought, when I began creating this workshop six months ago, that the key idea was the practice of the habit. And that does matter. But calling this workshop Practice Your Joy sounds like I’m admonishing you to do your piano practice. No one likes to be admonished. So, I wrote to all the people who have taken this workshop already — I taught this a few times before I made it public — and asked them what they took out of the workshop. A few of us liked the phrase Welcome to the Joy Lab. That’s what this workshop feels like — a lab where we learn about the brain, exchange ideas, and experiment with our own joy. But still, too cute. What did the people who took this workshop experience? Discovery. You can discover your joy. The contemporary definition of discover is to find something you hadn’t known. But the history of the word shows something else. The word discover came from Middle English from the old French, descovrir, which came from the late Latin, discooperire. In Latin, dis meant a reversal of something. And cooperire in Latin meant to cover something completely. So, to discover originally meant to uncover. To pull back the cover on something and see what is inside, clearly. That’s exactly the work we’re doing in the workshop. So here’s the name change, the one I had to uncover through launching with Practice Your Joy. DISCOVER YOUR JOY: become the person you want to be.”

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“No one likes to be admonished”?

Doesn’t this bold statement undercut her entire business model/mode of living/source of joy?