10 Tips for Living Your Bliss

When life has lost its shine, doing a few simple things to redirect our focus can help us get back on track and back in our “joy” zone. Try these out, and if you find them helpful, download the free printable at the bottom of this email.

1. Loving Self-Care. Lift your vibe, and practice what Cheryl Richardson calls “extreme self care”, by doing at least one act of loving self-care everyday. It could be enjoying your coffee in the sun, treating yourself to some cut flowers, or saying “No” to a request that doesn’t lift your spirits.
2. Follow Your Bliss If you’re struggling about which path to take or which project to start, follow your bliss and choose the one lights you up the most. I promise you your whole day will shift when you allow yourself to do the thing that makes your heart sing.
3. Create a Joy List. Make a list of all the things that bring you pleasure and joy. When you’re having a bad day, refer to your joy list and do one of those things, even if you don’t feel like it. Quite often, once you start, you’ll shift from feeling depleted to delighted. 
4. Collect Joyful Images – Collect uplifting images from magazines or create a “joy” board in Pinterest. Fill it with images of all the things and places that make you feel good when you look at them. Next time you’re feeling stressed, simply look through the images. Nature images, and especially images with fractals, are soothing and stress reducing (read the book The Nature Fix).
5. Look for the Good. Instead of noticing what’s wrong (negative bias), spend a little time everyday contemplating what is right in your life. Notice the pretty pink flowers in your neighbor’s yard, the peacefulness of your home, the friendly greeting of your dog, having reliable transportation, etc.  Help your brain build the habit of noticing what is good and it will shift your mood for the better.
6. Practice ‘Joyspotting.’ Ingrid Fetell Lee, the author of Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, offers a free Joyspotting Guide. I highly recommend working with it. It will help you start noticing things that delight you. Here’s something else I do when I see or experience something that lights me up, I say to the Universe, “Yes, more of that please!”, to affirm bringing more of it into my life.
7. Practice Gratitude. Create a daily gratitude practice. Example: Encourage everyone at the dinner table to express three things they are grateful for. Or, as you drift off to sleep at night, ponder three things you are grateful for.  The positive impact of daily gratitude is real, check the Science of Gratitude.
8. Start a Joy Journal. Start a joy journal to record the little and big joys that you experience throughout your day (use the Joyspotting Guide in #6 to help you notice more of them!). Each time you read your joy journal it will fill you with delight all over again!
9. Affirmations. Affirmations are the mental vitamins our minds need to offset the human tendency towards negative bias and negative thinking. Affirmations are best stated in the present tense. Write several affirmations, record them with your smartphone “voice recorder”, and listen to them everyday as you get ready for the day, exercise, or drive to work.
   • I breath in peace and joy and I breath out stress and fear.
   • Every day, in every way, I experience more joy in my life.
   • Today I am full of energy and overflowing with joy. 
   • I am joy. I radiate and spread joy everywhere I go.
10. Create Joy. If what you want to experience doesn’t exist, create it! For example, many years ago I wanted to bring our friends together on a regular basis, but hosting big parties wasn’t my way to connect. Instead, I created a “couples card night.” One a month, about ten of us gathered together to play cards and socialize. It was a blast!

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