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Joy Beat Blog

Staying connected with JOY matters. I have found that reading inspirational stories and insights around joy greatly increases my joy factor. I have also found that sharing some of my best tools and techniques for keeping JOY alive are useful and helpful. I created the JOY beat to provide a fun and joyful blog for you. In addition, it’s a way for you to keep up to date with all the happenings in our Life Full of JOY world. Don’t miss a beat-sign up today! 

Mindset

Five Strategies to Support Your Environmental Landscape

I was recently working with a client who had a major project to complete. The client was really stuck. We started exploring what was happening. As we dug deeper, we realized that it wasn’t just the usual case of avoidance. It was about the environmental landscape. What is “environmental landscape?”

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Perspective

Is Your Why Good Enough

I’m fairly certain we’ve all said or heard these types of comments: We all have things on the “I’d like to do this” list. Sometimes this stems from comparison. Other times it comes from something we do truly want to do…and yet, we don’t do it. Here is a news

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Comfort Zone

Five Lessons We Can Learn from a Children’s Book

My husband is an elementary school teacher. This also means that a lot of our friends are teachers. One common conversation is around children’s books. As a mom, I’m glad this conversation continues, because reading with my kids was one of the favorite activities I remember and treasure. Recently, the

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Brilliance

The Mutual Admiration Society

On a recent conversation with a dear friend, she shared a poem she had written. It was brilliance. Pure brilliance! I told her I admired her writing and that she was a genius. She said, back at you girl. It’s a mutual admiration society. I had never heard that phrase

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Clarity

The Impact of Asking the Right Questions

Sometimes I think I’m the person in a meeting who drives everyone else nuts. It is not uncommon for me to say, are we asking the right questions? Part of this comes from my deep curiosity. Some of it comes from the frustration I get when I hear, “we tried

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Choice

When Being Done Means Moving On

I recently overheard myself saying the following: I am SO DONE with this! Not two days later, I had a client who said, “I am so done with this, I am so OVER MYSELF!” Talk about that moment where everything makes sense. My claim was also about being done with

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