Last week’s post encouraged establishing meaningful priorities, putting them into your calendar, and passing on the unrealistic expectations that bring you stress.
As we transition from one year to the next, let’s expand on that idea. As we establish priorities for the new year, focus on establishing priorities that bring you joy.
What is joy?
The dictionary will tell you that joy is a feeling of great delight, happiness, or satisfaction.
I believe joy is bigger than a feeling. I believe joy is a choice we make. Regardless of our circumstances, we choose joy.
Joy transcends happiness and is a sense of wonder, belief, hope, and peace creating a state of being and perspective that rises above whatever is going on around us.
“Joy is the kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” David Steindl-Rast
What priorities bring you joy?
The answer to this question is unique to you but is closely tied to your values. What is important to you? What gives your life a sense of purpose and meaning?
Take time as you transition to a new year to reflect on the answers to these questions.
Look at these posts for ideas for reflection as you look ahead to a new beginning:
Achieve balance in the new year
As we choose joy over apathy, despair, or discouragement, we can achieve balance in our lives.
We can balance the heartaches and disappointments that are ever present, with a joyful perspective, an outlook believing that we can make a difference by how we approach each day - with empathy, with our words and actions, and by holding onto hope.
Choose joy. Communicate joy.
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." ~ Henri Nouwen
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