JOY
re:vision
Day 1: understanding your joy
In this video, I give you some of the foundations of what joy is. Once you have watched the video, you can get stuck into your Day 1 inspired action. Grab your journal, a nice cuppa, get cosy and spend some time journaling on the following questions to help you understand what your authentic joy is:
What in my day uplifts my spirits, or bring me peace, fulfilment or balance, or that I savour and look forward to?
What have I stopped / do less frequently that I want to reconnect to?
What new connections, interests or experiences do I want to call in?
What interests or experiences no longer serve me that I’m ready to let go of?
Once you are done, take a look at these lists - make sure you’re planning enough time for these moments of joy and getting them in the diary. And for those already in your day, ensuring you are fully present to enjoy these.
My encouragement during each of these joyful moments is come into full presence as you are doing them. So, set an intention, ‘I will be fully present for this,’ and then put away all distractions like your phone and gently bring your mind back onto what you are doing if it wanders off.
I also love to zoom in on the small details in these simple joys each and every day - for example it might be the bright and vivid colours that uplift your spirits, the intricate design that you haven’t noticed before, the rich textures, the delicious tastes, the smells that make your stomach grumble - anything!
day 2: balancing your negativity bias
Today’s topic is a juicy one, as it can affect each of us daily. We are talking about your negativity bias and ways that you can start to rebalance it with the positive.
Once you have watched the video, I want you to start bringing awareness NOW to your thought patterns. Your inspired action for today is:
Bring awareness onto your mind, so that you can start to witness and understand any negative thought patterns that you have. Simply notice times in your day where you feel negative emotions such as anger, sadness, fear, worry or anxiety, or where you observe negative stories and perspectives in your mind. Ideally, keep a note of these in your journal as it’s helpful to start spotting patterns that you can work to reprogram.
Once you catch one of these moments of negativity, simply observe the stories that are being broadcast in your mind, with lots of self love and compassion and without judgement. Then see if you can identify the positive stories that are also available to you right now (they are always there, just sometimes we have to look for them…). For example; what are the positives in your current situation that you have been ignoring in favour of the negatives; what are the silver lining lessons here; what can you do to bring comfort, support, hope and joy to yourself in this moment.
Like attracts like, and the more you bring awareness and consciously re-focus in on those positives, the more of that joyful energy that you will attract in - as your mind will start looking for those positives instead of being so heavily tipped towards the negatives.
day 3: feeling joy + gratitude for where you are now
As we speed joyfully into day 3 🏎… Today sees us dive into two of my favourite practices; stopping to celebrate the small wins and joy journaling.
Your inspired actions for today are:
Firstly, stopping to celebrate the small wins each and every day; whether doing a little dance of joy in the moment or on reflection at a later point. The more you bring these mini celebrations in, the bigger boost you will feel as you build that joyful energy of celebrating and acknowledgement of YOU into each and every day.
Secondly, your Joy Journaling every night before bed. Here are some journal prompts to kick start this powerful practice:
What experiences in your day, no matter how small, uplifted your spirits, grounded you, brought you joy in some way?
What did you achieve today? Focus in on the small steps and small wins, which are just as important as the big wins
What did you learn today? Focussing on that perspective shift here when faced with failure / tough days and feeling the positives from those learnings
What made you feel grateful today? And what else can you see on reflection that there was to be grateful for?
How did you show kindness, generosity, compassion, forgiveness to others?
day 4: simplify your life
You are over the half way mark! I hope you are feeling some beautiful and powerful shifts forwards as you invite more joy and presence into your life and prioritise that which brings YOU joy.
Today, we look at simplifying your life - finding mindful moments of the purest simplicity and presence, whether during tasks, moments of connection and stillness.
Your inspired action for today is to identifying moments in your day (starting with 2-3) that you can simplify, remove distractions and be fully present:
Identify these moments or activities, make a commitment and before you start, set an intention to be fully present for them.
Simplify your surroundings, remove any distractions like phones, emails, TV etc.
Make sure you are mono-tasking and not multi-tasking - just do one activity and fully engage with it.
Start by connecting to your breath to bring you into presence, and use your breath to bring you back to presence if your mind wanders off.
Additionally, as you look at removing distractions, you might also look at any clutter that surrounds you. This can cause the energy surrounding you to become distracted and clogged. I investing time in regular spring cleans and spiritual cleanses to make sure that my space embodies and calls in joyful energy.
day 5: start your day with joyful intention
They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And I think there might be an argument for our morning routine as being the most important time of the day. My morning routine really does set me up for the energy that I invite in across the day ahead. It is crucial, and without it I know (from experience) how ungrounded and unbalanced my day can feel.
Today’s inspired action is for you to create your personal morning routine, or to look at how you can optimise your existing routine to be even more aligned and authentic to you. Your rituals should light you up, set your joyful intention, ground you, balance you, energise you.
I have shared my non-negotiable morning routine in this video and accompanying download ebook.
day 6: Deepen and prioritise your connections
Our human connections are so important. Not just a nice to have, but they actually come as a fundamental human need. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, after food, water and safety, love and belonging are our most important needs. This includes our desire to connect with others and to be integrated into a group. When these needs are met, our wellbeing improves and we feel more fulfilled.
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Today’s inspired action is your next step in your self enquiry to understand your most authentic and joyful self. Grab your journal and reflect on:
Which human connections bring you the most joy? You could reflect back to your journaling from day 1, and build out this list.
How can you prioritise these moments more? What is your commitment e.g. to connect more frequently or to be more present and less distracted?
What gets in your way from deeply connecting?
How can you more deeply connect in a way that is authentic to you?
From this journaling, identify actions to take forwards. For example, scheduling these in your calendar, setting intentions to be fully present, putting your phone away.
day 7: authentic connection
Here we are on day 7 - YES! High five 🤚🏽
On our final day for this mini course, we go deeper into connection - with your final piece of journalling to understand your authentic self.
You inspired actions for today is journaling on:
Identify your key connections that either mean the most to you (as identified yesterday) or those that take up lots of your time / there is room for improvement. Note that these don’t have to be individual connections, you can group them for ease e.g. family, friends, work.
For each of these, journal on what in these moments of human connection makes you thrive? What lights you up? What makes you feel at your most present, relaxed, connected and authentic? What in these moments of human connection bring you joy? As with yesterday’s journaling, these identify the areas that you want to keep prioritising.
Then look at what in these moments of human connection makes you sigh? Where do you not feel like you are being, or can be, your authentic self? When do you feel guarded? When do you disconnect? Are there any triggers that cause you to put a mask on?
Now choose the areas of connection from your sighs, where you want to show up more authentically and therefore create those deeper moments of connection. What boundaries do you need to create and communicate to be able to move those sighs to thrives?