Best Tips For Living Your Joy in the New Year
About this episode:
Hi, She Built It family! The holidays are around the corner, and I am sure all of us are ready for celebrations and spending quality time with our family and friends. I hope my podcast guests were inspiring to you, as they were for me, and that you could make the most of their tips to remain focused on what brings joy into your lives and what is truly important.
If you are looking for a dose of added appreciation, I’m sharing a few of my favorite joy tips from my guests, on today’s episode!
5 tips to help you start finding joy:
Bring fun to everything you do
Find your joy in everything and be willing to accept it
Find joy in your client's happiness
Give yourself permission to move slowly
See the joy in the development of the people you are working with
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Melanie Barr: [00:00:05] How is She Built It family! Who is ready for the holidays and downtime with family and friends? I know I am. When we allow ourselves to feel our joy and most importantly, to find it, and when we recognize what brings us joy and make sure we're doing those things and taking care of ourselves, we are better at taking care of others. Gratitude fills our lives and our lives are that much sweeter. I believe that magic happens when we focus on the part of ourselves and our business. That brings us joy because joy is unique to all of us. And what brings us joy can be different for everyone. At the end of every episode of the She Built It Experience with Melanie Podcast, I ask each guest how they find and live their joy. All of the answers from my guests are so empowering, knowledgeable, and different. Here are a few that stood out. I hope you have a fabulous holiday and that these tips help you to fill your holidays with joy.
Jackie Porter: [00:27:38] I love bringing the fun to everything that I do. So, you know, I think if I I think the two things that I try to do in my practice with clients, with my team is use humor. So I take, I take, but I do very, very seriously. But I don't take myself seriously. And I think that's the levity we all need when it comes to our finances is what can we bring the fun? You know, so when clients are mentally stressed out, cracking a joke, poking fun at the situation, you know, making things so that they don't feel insurmountable. [00:28:15][36.9]
Gina Lathrum: [00:34:44] I think Joy is everywhere, when I was asked that question, I mentioned earlier, what brings you joy and my state of mind at that moment was it's something that I'm not doing right. There's got to be something I don't know. This is what I was thinking. I don't know it. I don't surf like there's something I'm not doing. So that's why I don't have joy. That's a refrain, right? The refrain is there's joy in everything. Just open your eyes to see it and pause. You know, I used to make I still do. I make homemade dog food for my dog because she's a princess. And it was a task it was an arduous task to do boil all this and do the rice and cut up the meat and do the carrots. And I was just like, oh, I should just feed you normal dog food and let you all over. It's a it's fun, I put on really great song, singer songwriter music, I throw on some Carole King or Harry Shapen and I find joy in making Dogville. You know, it's not a task. It's a frame of mind. [00:35:50][65.8]
Melanie Barr: [00:35:51] I love that there's joy in everything. You just have to find it. [00:35:54][3.4]
Gina Lathrum: [00:35:55] You do. And be willing to accept it. If when I was in a different life, you know, three hundred miles south of where I live right now,I couldn't have accepted it. I was sitting at red lights, you know, I was going five feet and stopping in five feet and stopping maybe not five fifty feet. I was so caught up holding my hands at 10 and two, trying to go somewhere that I had to loosen up on the wheel and just say, you know what, I'll get there when I get there. Because what I didn't realize, if I looked to the right, you know, there's something I hadn't seen before in, you know, of the fifty five or somewhere, you know, sometimes it's right there. You just got to let go and look for it. [00:36:37][42.4] [111.6]
Madeleine Perez: [00:20:12] it's a Day-To-Day thing, it's not for me, it's something I have to remind myself sometimes. My son is my wife. I do all of this for him. I also do it for myself. And the joy is really in the clients. Frankly, it's it's helping them sell their their family house that they raise their kids in and the emotion that's involved in that and getting them through it. And then, you know, sometimes it's it's getting a buy or a house that has thirty seven offers and they win. And, you know, it's those wins and those moments where you're helping someone make the biggest purchase of their life and seeing just how happy they are. And then, you know, months later you go to their house for a barbecue or dinner and it's like, wow, like I really influenced this person's life forever. And so that's where the joy of this business comes for me. [00:21:08][55.7]
Tiffany Paul: [00:31:51] It is giving yourself permission to move slowly. I think that when you get to create with more ease and joy, suddenly you're loving the life you're living, your loving the creation versus putting so much pressure on yourself to go fast and make the money. I'm a huge advocate of going at a side hustle. Go get a service job, go get a consulting gig if money is the reason you're pushing yourself to go so fast, because allowing yourself to go slowly and at your own pace and find peace at the end of the day that you did your best. That's where I find the most fulfillment. Enjoy my business. [00:32:26][35.4]
Allison Williams: [00:43:34] I find and live my joy by seeing the development of the people that I work with. It always gives me a certain level of satisfaction when I can say I created an avenue for someone, they were whoever they were before they found me, but when they came to my environment, they got to flourish. They got to spread their wings. They got to try new things. They got to lead in there. [00:43:57][22.8]
Melanie Barr: [00:43:57] They got can you say that lessons again? They get to lead in their lane. I want to cut it out, OK? [00:44:04][6.3]
Allison Williams: [00:44:04] They get to lead in there. They get to express themselves and they get to contribute. And I think a lot of places you oftentimes underestimate the power of what you've created until you start hearing other people's perception of it [00:44:18][13.4]
Melanie Barr: Thank you for joining me She Built It™ Family. I hope you are getting the rest, downtime, and fun with friends and family that you deserve this week!