10 Simple Ways to Experience Unabashed Joy: Guaranteed!
(c) 2002
Julie Jordan Scott

1. Participate in activities that you loved as a third grader. Were
you in the class play? Take an acting class! Did you love basketball?
Join a basketball league. No excuses, simply do it!

2. Take a mid day break everyday with a Gratitude Partner. Get
outside, get moving, and be grateful together as you eliminate
whining in your workplace or family or neighborhood. Watch the
subtle changes of people observing your Gratitude Partnership.

3. Borrow a child (or if you have your own, its even easier!) and
take an afternoon off for unstructured, unscheduled play in the park.
Don't just watch him play, get on the swings, the slide, climb on the
Monkey bars!

4. Purchase a big pad of newsprint and mount it on the wall along with
plenty of art supplies of different types: markers, paints, chalk, crayons.
Create colorful images of all sorts when you are "blocked" in your
"ordinary" work. See what this simple creativity time can do for you!

5. Send flowers to your child/parents/siblings/neighbor. You might
even want to pick some flowers from your garden, arrange them into
a bouquet, and leave them at the door of that single person down the
street who never has many visitors. Wait to see their reaction as they pick
them up!

6. Schedule a personal retreat day each month. Set this day aside as
sacred. Use it to intentionally create your life as one where joy reins
and creativity abounds.

7. Find a nightclub that specializes in music of the time when you were
in high school or college. Go there and dance the night away with
reckless abandon!

8. Set aside one of your lunch hours each week, say Tuesday, to be
"Building Friendship Lunch Day". Invite a different friend to lunch
each Tuesday with the intention being to intensify your friendship.
Follow up lunch with time at the gym or at a group gathering. Watch
Your circle of friendship grow in depth and width!

9. Attend free, outdoor concerts in the park. Bring along a picnic
dinner as you learn to enjoy different types of music. Really listen
to the different instruments as they play. Feel the breeze as it blows.
Smell the food as you serve it. Create a multi-sensory concert event.

10. Learn and practice the fine art of storytelling. Begin with scenes from
your life, and tell your stories to a young relative. Not only will they love
helping you grow and embellish your stories, you will be passing along
your history and life to them in the process. Focus at first on legends
and tales of joyfulness within your family. Weave your legacy and connection
to the future!
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Julie Jordan Scott is a Certified Life Purpose Coach with an International
Practice working with creative, action oriented individuals ready to
make powerful changes and choices in their lives and their businesses.
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