If you want to be joyful in life, BE joyful.

Make it a decision, not a discussion.

A discussion would be where you look for reasons and arguments to be joyful or not.

Where you use your current worldview to see if it makes sense.

You look for signs of joy around you.

You want life (or other people) to prove to you that joy is real, sustainable, feasible, and deserved.

You’d take it very seriously!

Haha.

You see what’s going on there?

You see the endless chase, the endless puzzle, the endless waiting?

It’ll never happen.

If you want to be joyful in life, BE joyful.

Make it a conscious decision, not a response.

‘I am being joyful all the time because I fucking want to!’

And keep returning to it if you get lost in troubled thinking (you will).

Start over when the old habit of feeling miserable and small and hopeless has found its way back.

Be joyful, and then be joyful again.

You can never lose your capacity to feel joy.

Living joyfully is a practice of being.

It’s not what life brings you in tiny, exclusive batches.

Don’t ask if the situation allows it, if the circumstances will let you, or if other people agree and give you permission.

Be joyful BEFORE, not as a response to.

Be joyful before you speak, before you think, and before you act.

Be joyful as if your life depends on it.

And maybe it doesn’t (I guess it doesn’t), but who cares?

At least you’re joyful, and that will change your life.

So decide, today, instead of ‘one day’.

BE joyful, because you can.

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(Having a bit of trouble with this idea? Still think that life is inherently painfully complicated and you don’t deserve a break? Would you LOVE to be more joyful and playful and full of love? Well, here’s your chance to finally make it work –> mail me!)