Joy: How To Become Joyful & Passionate

Joy… it makes our days go quicker, it warms our hearts and leaves us with great lasting memories.

When you think backward to anytime period of your life, where you experienced true joy, whether that be on a bus, or laughing with a family member until it hurt, it warms you up thinking about it.

When you in a difficult place or have what seems an unmovable object in front of you it becomes imperative to look back to these times.

In the cold, these memories keep you warm. In the hard times, they keep you going.

But how do we practice joy more often?

How do we master joy?

Becoming A Master Of Joy:

Joy is an emotion and if you have read any of my other blog posts this week, you will see a theme emerging, that we have complete control of joy. We have complete control of our emotional state.

We can decide whether to be negative or positive about the obstacles that have been put in our way.

But to truly master joy we must practice it, make it a habit.

As those who master joy live better and more full lives.

Joy has the ability to improve the work effort, motivation, and attention to the task at hand.

Tasks where you feel a genuine joy to be doing, you tend to work harder, more efficiently, you become enthusiastic about that task and you will pay more attention to what needs to be done, and perfecting it.

Therefore, joy can be linked to work performance.

When we exhibit joy in what we are doing, it spreads to others, we are healthier.

But mastering this skill is hard work.

When we think of children they are naturally joyful, they explore and are curious, and have no expectations of a result. But as we grow older we begin to expect a reward for our work. When we fail to be rewarded we lose our joy and we struggle to get it back.

When we begin to expect we then fail to remember the moment.

As we struggle we must learn to enjoy our surroundings, and everything that happens. When we look back at our struggles more times than not we are proud that we did struggle. When we struggle we do not expect anything, our only focus is on getting out of our current struggle.

This is what we need to focus on, an intentional distraction from results.

To live happier we need to be focusing on the moment more, we need to go into tasks with a how can I bring joy to this situation? Attitude to everything that is happening during the struggle.

We need to become more curious about the world and the task that we need to perform.

An Example:

For this I will use myself:

Writing these blogs, I could focus on the fact that at present not that many people read my blogs. I could have put out two or three blogs only got ten people to look at them and nothing else.

Now if I focus on this as a result that my hard work did not meet some deluded expectation that hundreds if not thousands of people should have read this blog by now, then me writing out this blog would be unjoyous.

Every second and every word would suck and hurt. I would have to stop writing once a minute to think of my why and my meaning.

I would struggle my way through writing this.

But instead, I choose to focus on the joy of writing. It is my passion, I enjoy conveying information that I have learned to all who want to read.

Every word written is just as passionate as the last, and the blog moves along at a concise and quick pace, as not to linger like in a book.

By focusing on the writing, feeling the heat coming from my office radiator, the rain hitting my office windows. By looking outside to see robbins on the bare branches of a tree behind me, I can be joyous in the fact that I get to work at home for myself.

I do not have the worry of food or heat. I have a computer that allows me to convey my ideas to the world.

I get to write six blogs every Monday for the rest of the week.

I choose to focus on joy. I am curious as to where my writing may one day lead me. Who my teachings might inspire.

By focusing down on these two concepts of where I could go and who I could inspire, these words become full of joy.

How You Can Master Joy:

Joy is a simple emotion to master, it is a choice. You can choose to focus on a deluded expectation or you can decide to be curious as to where this path is going to lead.

You can waste your time with bitterness and coldness or you can choose to bring joy.

The magic formula is”

Curious + Pleasure In The Small Things + Expecting Good Things — Actual Expectation Of A Result= Joy

Until tomorrow this has been your coach Andrew