Enjoyment

Ring in the New Year with a bank of positive feelings rather than a resolution to change or create just one new behavior. This is not necessarily a measurable goal, but rather an intrinsic change in behavior that will empower a positive quality in your personal character.

Our lives are quite full and active. Finding a balance won't necessarily take tasks off of your to do list, but it will help to center you, guiding you to reframe and exhale between the busyness.

Coming from a place of enjoyment can also ease the tension. Try to incorporate joy in all you do. Respond to others with joy – yes, even the difficult ones. Prosper with joy. Ensure that your income and financial endeavors bring joy with gratitude for what you do have. Relax with joy. We are all deserving and needing of some downtime. Even 15 minutes a day can be treasured joy. Pray with joy. Each of the life lessons and blessings in our day require faith and hope and gratitude. Play with joy. Whether your play is with children, pets, a night out with friends, or dancing to your favorite tune in the living room – give it joyful attention. Serve with joy. A joyful heart makes any work or caring for others a gift. Even doing the dishes can become a blessing rather than a task, once you've realized that you had food to eat!

Own YOUR joy. Each of us is responsible for our own enjoyment of life. We reap what we sow – so why not put joy in all we do. It truly takes so much less energy to open our hearts today to the blessings of joy. Let joy change the mundane to marvelous, and the dread to delight in your world. Who knows how far it will spread? I forgot to mention that joy is often contagious!

...always be the love and joy that YOU are

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. Paul Goodman