What if Joy Was Your Job?
by Sally ~ October 28th, 2009. Filed under: creating a life you love, Happiness, joy, play.
Imagine if joy was your job. What if it was your responsibility to find happiness in your business and personal life wherever you could?
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” Robert Louis Stevenson
What kind of difference would that make for you and the people around you?
There may be times when you feel like there is nothing joyful about your life let alone your job. But don’t you owe it to yourself and the people around you to pay attention to what brightens your day, what puts a spring in your step?
How could you make things more enjoyable? What if you made a game of taking routine tasks and added a twist to make them more pleasing?
Even if you can’t be the head Joymaster in your work, you can find dozens of ways to make life more fun at home and work. And if you are lucky enough to have an entrepreneurial spirit, you can make choices to define your own job and put a priority on joy.
Your ongoing responsibility as Joymaster of your life is to be aware of everything that you are grateful for, everything that puts a smile on your face, and everything that makes your heart skip a beat (in a good way).
I love hearing stories about janitors, school bus drivers, and others who show genuine delight in what they are doing and their enthusiasm becomes contagious. They remind us that how we do something really does make a difference.
If you choose joy as your job, what might you do differently?
November 4th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Thanks, Sally. I totally agree! Joy is a wonderful guide. When my work wasn’t fulfilling me, I let go of what I thought I “had to do” and contemplated what would bring me greater joy. Fortunately I’m my own boss so I am a bit freer to do this! But following that impulse has led to wonderful work opportunities I’m really enjoying.
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