Posts Tagged ‘joy’
Keeping Joy at our Center Part 2
Ugly Efficiency: Discover the Secret Power of Beauty The benefit of beauty is joy. Utility—by itself—is ugly. When you add beauty to efficiency, you build human organizations. Ugly organizations are effective, efficient, and joyless. Let yourself be joyful. The Beauty List: #1. A morning without email. Designate one morning a week as a no-email morning.…
Read MoreKeeping Joy at our Center
Decades ago, when I was taking classes to be certified in Gifted and Talented leadership, one of my favorite professors, Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper, impacted my life by teaching us that joy should be at the center of all we do. We even made a little notebook about how we can always find time for joy.…
Read MoreDecember’s Gift: The Significance of Joy, Part II
In the previous article in this series, we looked at intentionally adding different “I-N-G” words to our month of December. We’ll continue that idea in this article by taking a deeper dive with a twist by exploring the connection between gratitude and joy. These are interconnected emotions. When you cultivate gratitude, you are acknowledging and…
Read MoreDECEMBER – One word – JOY
December seems to always sneak up on us. One week it’s October and then the next is December. Most of us are realizing that the older we get the faster the days, months and years seem to go. When December comes, even against the pile of “to dos” I just seem to feel JOY. Joy…
Read MoreLet’s Talk JOY
In continuing our focus on JOY – here are a few more possibilities for your consideration, and coming from my own book on Joy, first expressed over 37 years ago. From the Three Hours to One Day section: …sleep late and stay in PJs all day long…address Christmas cards with notes to far away friends…bake…
Read MorePure Joy!
Let’s talk JOY! All of us can sing the wonderful song from the movie, Sound of Music, “My Favorite Things.” Joy is like that. Little things that in an instance, in a moment, bring joy. I love the mountains. I love being in them, looking at them, the splendor, the majesty explodes my joy. The…
Read MoreThe Gift of Joy
Joy. How do you feel it? What brings you Joy each day? How important is it in our daily lives? May I share some thoughts and experiences? Recently, while leading one of our seminars, I was struck by the weight of stress, physically visible on and within the participants. This has become such a common…
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