Finding the joy!

For most of you who have followed me for the past few years, you know that I'm always on the lookout for simple effective strategies to improve the quality of life for myself, my friends and family, for students/teachers and those I teach both in my seminars and online. The  good news is there always seems to be more to learn and share.  Here's the latest...personally tested as always, simple and effective as promised.

What is it?  Be on the lookout for joy.  What?  Joy? Yes...things that make you happy.  As you drive to work, look for things along the road you like.  For me now, the green of the trees after a long winter, the flowers everywhere, a car I like, maybe a beautiful building. Or it's a song that comes on the radio or my CD or for me another strategy on a motivational CD that helps me see life in a totally new and inspiring way. Those are mine.  What can you collect starting now?

Basically you're like the opposite of Santa.  Instead of giving great gifts, you're collecting them. You're collecting things you like in your mind and as you collect them, you feel better because your brain is focused on appreciation.  So instead of all the things that annoy you about your significant other, all the things you don't like at your job, all the things you don't like about yourself, you're thinking and enjoying and collecting what you do like. Since, your brain can't think of opposite things at the same time, it's perfect!  Make sense?

Try it.  Try it starting first thing in the morning if you can.  This is positive thinking at its best because you're training your brain to look for the what's good, to send out spirit lifting hormones that make you feel even better. You start a chain reaction just like when you start the day on the wrong foot and say something like, "It's going to be a bad day." And then it is. Same idea, bad momentum. We've all done it.

I woke up early today but happy and inspired after a week of putting this into practice.  I couldn't wait to share it with you. 

Sending and wishing you lots of joy!