Live Your JOY: What is YOUR sprinkle of joy?

Live Your Joy!

September 30, 2011

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(Past joy musings feed the soul.)

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Greetings!

I give lots of presentations and I share lots of quotes. One that keeps bubbling up lately is from the late Princess Diana. She is quoted to have said something like: "The greatest disease this world suffers from most is people feeling unloved. I can give love."

That has been my motto for years now - to live like a princess. I can give love. What I want is to eradicate the world from the disease of feeling unloved.

Please join me in this mission.

This year for my birthday, besides a leaf blower, I want love. I want you to first start showing yourself love. Then you can start to love on others.

That's where we get hung up, the loving ourselves part. That is what I teach. In programs like JOY A.D. and workshops at various groups. Even in the corporate world, I give hardcore facts and I slip in the love. I don't tell them upfront it will be a lovefest. I use corporate speak like "knowledge transfer". The whole purpose of the Joy Beyond Your Dreams program is loving yourself. And every week right here in the joy letter, I give love so you can get love and give love.

Love, love, love.

For those who are not ready to receive, I want to thump you on the noggin, but I just have to be patient. For some, love takes time.

I hope each little sprinkle is penetrating, slowly dissolving your armor. I want to teach you that you don't need that armor. In your own time, you will come to realize that.

Today, I write this on my birthday eating my birthday cookies, and your gift to me is to acknowledge that you are pretty awesome. In fact, I think you are divine.

Words to Ponder:

Love like a princess.

What brings me Joy lately....

a pomegranate Tootsie pop
a bouquet of cookies
saying I LOVE YOU
painted wine glasses with bling
new opportunities to love on people and teach them to start loving themselves
good hand lotion
cushy "spa" bath mats
coaching calls
candle light
prepping with my groom for our singing bowl classes
getting effusive email thank you's for offering the divorce workshop. please tell someone you know who needs to heal about this workshop.

HAPPYHAPPYJOYJOY Birthday Wishes to:

Sheri Oberbroeckling White

Mike Ruggles

Mary Smith

Turtle Power!

(THANK YOU all for my birthday wishes. I LOVE being in my 40s!)(I will also love my 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and may start to fade after that. I will live to 108. And still be dancing in my kitchen with my groom.)

(Send in your birthday. Each week, we do a birthday shout out. At the end of each month, a name is drawn and receives snail mail surprise!)

Sprinkles of JOY

What originally started as simple email exchanges of the little things that bring us joy has morphed into a book idea.

JOY is contagious. Sharing our sprinkles sparks others to start noticing their joys. The more we notice, the more they keep coming.

Please send in whatever brings you a bit of joy. Anything that makes you smile, feel delight, appreciation, gratitude, giddy, calm, peaceful. The things that make a bad day better and make a good day joyous. We are compiling these sprinkles of joy into a nifty little gift book to be out this early winter.

Send your one line or poem or essay or novella or haiku or limerick or rap or whatever to info@kellyepperson.com.

WE ARE STARTING TO COMPILE. THERE IS STILL ROOM FOR YOUR SPRINKLE! SHORT AND SWEET OR LONG AND LUSCIOUS. ANYWHERE IN BETWEEN. WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL HAPPY???? SEND IT IN!

Kelly's JOY=Writing

Order Books Online:

-When LIfe Stinks, It's Time to Wash the Gym Clothes = a collection of Kelly's newspapers columns-365 Days of Joy - How to be Happy Every Single Day = practical steps to live a happier life every day

Happiness Club

Happiness Club is the First Thursday of each monthImplement new habits that can change your life! (Like, seriously dude.)North Suburban Library, 6340 N. Second St., Loves Park6:30 - 8:00 pm - All are welcome. Free.

One minute Video of Happiness Club

Oct 6 - Jodell Gabriel - Aromatherapy/Relaxation Techniques

Nov 3 - Tom Zuba - Happy on Your Own Terms

Dec 1 - Year End Sharing and Celebration

+ Awesome things are already planned for 2012!

AND Don't Forget:

LAUGH CLUB

Third Saturday at 9 am

2222 E State Room 208 Rockford

Leaders: Marty & Jodell Gabriel

Divorce Healing

For those who are still stuck in the muck, you need to know there is JOY A.D. (After Divorce)

One Night to Jumpstart Your Joy

A workshop to get you back to you, to get you healing, to get you knowing you can be happy again.

Tell everyone you know who has not let go of the emotions of divorce to attend this night. Sign up by Oct 4.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

6 - 8:30 pm

Meeting Room, North Suburban Library

6340 N. Second St., Loves Park, IL

$50

info@kellyepperson.com or call toll free 888-637-3563.

Credit card registration can be taken online, over the phone, or checks to

PO Box 2324, Loves Park, IL 61131.

It doesn't matter if you have been divorced a long time or if this is new territory. Maybe you are in the tangled mess of emotion and questions right now. If you still feel sad, angry, confused, lost, alone, bitter, guilty, hurt, scared, numb, depressed, don't you want to start getting rid of that?

Maybe you haven't even gotten to divorce yet but it is "there."

HEALING STARTS NOW!

Singing Bowls

Mind-Body-Spirit are all connected and we have to take care of all for real happiness. I am not a natural meditator, (my brain keeps firing), so to take a pause for relaxation and rejuvenation, I have discovered the healing benefits of singing bowls. They get me to the place of calm and I don't have to do anything but let them!In my steps to share all my happiness "tips", even the woo-woo ones, we are offering a class to introduce people to singing bowls and the many benefits of sound healing - which includes physical healing too. Jim and I believe this is one more tool for your happiness tool bag. :)

Introduction to Singing Bowls and Sound Healing

The same one-time only session is offered at three venues.

Friday, Sept 30, 9:30 - 11:30 am

Center for Learning in Retirement

Wednesday, Oct 19, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Rock Valley College

Wednesday, Oct 26, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Womanspace

(We will be offering sound sessions at the Briar Joyhouse when we get moved in. :)

JOY Assignment

Please "LIKE" the Facebook page for Kelly Epperson JOY Beyond Your Dreams ! Some local writer galpals, the Chicks of the Trade, were put on the spot at lunch this week to be in this very brief (60 seconds or less!) joy video. Thank you to my camera shy pals! You are lovely, inside and out!

What is YOUR "sprinkle of joy"? KellyEpperson.com

If you have tried to get my free ebook "7 Steps to Being Happier Right Now' and you did not get the link to download it, please email info@kellyepperson.com. Web tech issues are being worked out, and we will send it to you right away!

Live joyfully,

Kelly

PARTING SHOT: (It's my birthday so I can repeat a favorite.)

"Your life is a sacred journey. And it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love."
Caroline Adams

ABOUT KELLY:

Kelly Epperson, a former IRS agent, is now an agent of joy, living the life of her dreams and teaching others to do the same.

To download a free copy of Kelly's ebook "7 Steps to Being Happier Right Now" go to www.kellyepperson.com.

Would You Like Kelly to Inspire and Teach at Your Next Event?

Kelly presents keynotes, trainings and Lunch-n-Learns for corporations, associations, public seminars & events, and industry-specific trainings. Contact info@kellyepperson.com or call toll free 888-637-3563.

Would You Like Kelly to Inspire and Teach YOU?

Kelly works privately as a happiness coach/consultant/mentor. If you want to pursue your own Joy Beyond Your Dreams™, write info@kellyepperson.com or call toll free 888-637-3563.

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