Greetings, Leaders.
Joy! This one emotion dramatically impacts our ability to endure, gain new strength, and receive the power to overcome all life's challenges.
Can you recall a time when you experienced joy? This emotion makes life worth living in the moment because it resonates with our core identity.
"To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with." Mark Twain
Sharing joy lifts our mood, boosts our energy, and brings smiles to their faces!
Every leader will experience testing on their journey. Someone shared this insightful perspective.
"Don't run from tests and hardships, leaders. As difficult as they are, you will ultimately find joy in them; if you embrace them, your faith will blossom under pressure and teach you true patience as you endure. And true patience brought on by endurance will equip you to complete the long journey and cross the finish line—mature, complete, and wanting nothing."
When a team performs at its best, overcoming challenges, every player — indeed, the entire arena — experiences an overflow of joy that lifts the team even higher.
Joy is a multiplier in our ability to endure and the strength to perform.
Gratitude can ignite our joy. Being grateful creates a mindset for resiliency, strength, and victory. Counting our blessings cultivates, stirs our emotions, and positions us to win the battles of life and career.
Everyone in every walk of life can be a force for good through their response of gratitude with joy!
How can we cultivate the emotion of joy for life and career and experience endurance, strength, and victories?
Consider starting each day by writing down several things you are most grateful for in your life and career.
Think about them for a few minutes. Let your mind replay them throughout the day and replenish your joy.
Keep asking for joy, seeking it, knocking on the door, and you will find it! Research indicates that cultivating this habit of dispositional gratitude increases our state of joy over time.
Please remember to share your joy with others. Joy is contagious.
"Got joy?"
Be glad and enjoy your days and your work.
"A joyful heart is good medicine."
Victory!
