| When Life Stinks, Find Your Joy! |
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| Issue No. 34 |
April 24, 2009 |
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Talk to me!
What brings YOU joy?! |
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Kelly Epperson
PO Box 2324
Loves Park, IL 61131
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Live large. Before we moved to France, I had a moment of tears saying goodbye to my coworkers. Parting advice from my friend Cheryl was, "Live large." Those two words made a big difference in my attitude and still do today.
It doesn't take a trip across the ocean to open your heart and mind to new adventures. Cool things happen no matter where you are. The time to enjoy is now.
Living large is unique to each person. It means living your life your way. It means ignoring the naysayers. It means being bold and taking a chance. It means staying home and taking a nap if you feel like it. It means trusting yourself and not worrying about what others think. It means you being you and becoming the best you a little more everyday.
Take a bumper sticker phrase and stick it where you see it everyday:
Live out loud.
Just do it.
Just be it.
Just be.
Follow your heart.
Follow your bliss.
Girls just wanna have fun.
Boys too.
I am woman, hear me roar (sorry, couldn't resist) (please, no cougar insinuations)
Live large.
The more we live by our intellect, the less
we understand the meaning of life.
--Leo Tolstoy
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| Joy = Wisdom |
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the
desire for that work has been put in every heart.
--Rumi
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| Joy = Music |
Song title that makes me smile:
My Life Would Suck Without You
Kelly Clarkson
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| Joy = JUMP for JOY |
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~from Dave B, Rockford, IL
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Joy = Look to the future |
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
--Stephen Covey
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| Joy = Writing |
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My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light!
~Edna St Vincent Millay |
| Joy Droppings |
| What brings me joy lately?
* boas, tiaras, fairy dust
* dark chocolate and red wine
* gumballs
* people who are patient with me
* a puppy (a big puppy) lying on my feet as I type
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Joy = Dogs |
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Coco, (our pup, not Coco Chanel), sits on the back of the couch and looks out the window like a kitty cat. If you sit on the couch, she wraps her arms around you and nuzzles your head like a big hug. She is brilliant too. She knows the difference between her duck and her monkey. I believe she also is grateful to have the best boys in the world. You can see it in her eyes. |
| Joy = You |
Happy Incredible Fabulous Joyous Birthday Wishes to:
Lynne K, Rockford
Ruth P, New Milford
Joan Pfeifer, Rockford
Bill Downes, Plainfield
Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre fans all sighed and smiled)
(New JOY seekers/spreaders: Let me know your bday. At the end of each month, I draw a name and one birthday person gets a joy present in the mail.)
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| Joy = Books & Movies |
Book Pick This Week = Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
More than fifty years later, her words still resonate with the restless hearts of the world.
Flick Pick This Week = George of the Jungle |
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Brendan Fraser stands the test of time in his loincloth.
Oops! Wrong George!
Really the wrong George! |
| Quote Junkie |
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Joy =French Lesson |
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Eat some creme brulee.
Drink some red wine.
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| Joy = I AM |
The biggest thing that holds us back from doing what we want, living our individual life of joy, is mindset. We rattle off the usual "I don't have time" and "I don't have the money" or "I don't (fill in your blank)."
Your joy job this week is to stop saying I don't or I can't. Switch to I AM statements. I am living the life of my dreams. I am out of debt. I am living in my dream house. I am (fill in your blank).
Present tense I AM statements. That's all you gotta do for now. Don't worry about that you still have debt or live in your less-than-dream house. Keep telling your mind "I am." You'll get there. |
| Joy = Never Give Up |
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Henry David Thoreau published Walden; or, Life in the Woods. The first edition was 2,000 copies, and it took five years to sell them off.
I bet a lot more than 2,000 have been sold since. :)
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Do not be afraid. Your vision is true.
Enter the tunnel and walk through.
--Ernest Holmes
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| JOY = Getting Help in Embarassing Moments |
...like running out of gas in my smart car...
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| Joy = The Wonder of You |
JOY is a gym full of 50 fifth-graders roller skating (not roller blading) and singing "Livin' On a Prayer" at the top of their lungs.
~Denise B, PE teacher, Frisco, TX
"Any day I'm vertical is a good day
...that's what I always say.
If you ask me, "How are you?"
I'll answer, "GREAT!" because in saying so,
I make it so. " ~~~ "Weather Report" by BJ Gallagher
~from Channahon Connie, Channahon, IL
"Something funny happened when I got home from work today. I'd made a video on youtube on smart car gas mileage and I was contacted by someone who trains smart car sales "specialists" and he wants to use my video as a training "tool" for specialists!"
~Jim H (fellow smarty and now smart GURU)(who would never run out of gas)
check out his videos at smartusainsider.com!
"Hi Kelly. You have immense joie de vivre! And I know you're tired. How do I know that? I just do. Eighty percent of the people on this planet are tired. The other twenty percent are children."
"You made it to the country music awards? I'm impressed alltohell! WAR! What A Room!"
~Harry H, Wood Dale, IL
Women are like phones:
They like to be held, talked to, and touched often.
But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
~ from Kathy B, Belvidere, IL
Accept that some days you're the pigeon,
and some days you're the statue.
If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Just get up and dance.
~from Christy V, Pecatonica, IL
These classifieds actually ran in newspapers -
1. FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER.
8-years old. Hateful little bastard. Bites!
2. FREE PUPPIES:
1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog.
3. FREE PUPPIES.. Mother, AKC German Shepherd; Father, Super Dog. Able to
leap tall fences in a single bound.
~from PJ Francis, Durand, IL
Steven Wright Quotes:
Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
~from Cindy Lynn O, Rockford, IL |
| Joy = Crytpic Message |
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The joy letter is scheduled to be delivered overnight to greet you Friday morning (USA folks anyway). Email systems send automatic "out of office" reply messages when someone is on vacation or away from email.
This message got my attention, but I'll omit person's name since I don't know the situation. "Thanks for your message. I am out of the office and will not be returning. Please contact me at xxx."
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tune playing at the moment: If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell..........
I never thought I could act this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back
~Gordon Lightfoot
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| Joy = Yahoo Headline |
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"Man pretending to fall off bridge actually falls off bridge"
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| Joy = Vocabulary |
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Tintinnabulation (noun)
Pronunciation: [tin-t�n-ab-yu-'ley-sh�n]
Definition: The ringing or jingling sound of bells.
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Sing.
Sing out loud.
Sing out strong.
Don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear.
Just sing. Sing a song.
The Carpenters rock. Well, not exactly rock. But Karen and Richard still bring me joy. Especially on rainy days and Mondays.
joyfully, xx kelly
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| Joy = Parting Shot |
... Live large.........
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