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Week #3

Monday, November 19
You know how you can have a super high fever or the stomach flu and are so miserable you vow to never again take for granted the pure joy of just getting to feel okay? Then the next day, in the hustle and hassle of everyday life, the first thing you do is forget about all that gratitude and you keep forgetting how blessedly wonderful it is to just feel okay until the next time you suffer again, at which point you renew your vow of gratitude.
Week #6

Monday, December 10
We’ve all had that experience of witnessing someone’s spectacularly poor handling of a situation. And we’ve all masterfully gone the wrong way ourselves.
Week #7

Monday, December 17
Obstacles. That’s what this week is shining the light of joy on -- all the things we let roll over the good so we can’t see what is right there for us to enjoy.
Week #1

Monday, November 5
Welcome to Going With The Good – 4th Quarter Joy, just in time for the holiday frenzy when things can get a little out-of-hand. But that’s okay because the next two months are going to be all about seeing the upcoming events and experiences in their entirety – the good, the bad and the ugly – and then deliberately deciding to go with the good view of things.
Week #2

Monday, November 12
We’ve been “Going with the Good” for a full week now. So, I’m wondering: How many times have you failed to go the way of the good so far? Or maybe you can’t even remember that going with the good is what we’re doing—that going with the good is an ever-present option?
Week #4

Monday, November 26
It’s no big surprise that we find a major source of joy in nature because nature is mind-blowing every day. What’s more, I think that the older we get, the more joy nature doles out. I base this theory on the fact that the poems, short stories, and essays submitted by all the “old ladies”—40 years and up—for publication in the college literary journal I edited were all about flowers, mountains, and things of that nature.
Week #5

Monday, December 3
You know what I think is weird? How often over the course of the past year in The Joy Jar Project the discussion brought out the hard stuff, the sad stuff. It was like we really couldn’t understand joy without understanding it in the context of suffering—I was not expecting that.
Week #8

Monday, December 24
You would think we would be subject matter experts on what personally makes us happy. However, just like we don’t always know what’s going on down in the basement of our subconscious, we also aren’t necessarily entirely aware of where our joy comes from