Fill Up Your Joy Bucket To Increase Resilience

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Do you know your top three joy priorities?

Do you take time in the morning or day to recognize what you are grateful for?

It is easier said than done. Most of us get lost in our daily tasks and meetings, especially during the holidays when time feels very scarce. Yet, the truth is if you become depleted you won’t be able to deal with work or life as well as you could. Depletion pushes our resilience capacity lower and is directly related to lack of joy in our lives.

Paula is talking about joy in this timely episode. She shares ways that she accesses joy during busy times and emphasizes that you don’t need to go to the spa for the whole day to experience this. So if you are in the middle of frantically buying a second turkey, or trying to make a flight, please take a little moment for yourself to focus on gratitude and joy, this small mindset shift is a game changer.

Listen up to learn more about how you can access joy everyday and why it matters.

Show Notes: reidnco.com/podcast

Timestamps:

[00:04:43] And being depleted is really that you're not experiencing enough joy in your life. There aren't enough, there aren't enough pleasant associations coming in to your life, coming into your experiences. And when I feel depleted, I noticed that. Things that come along. That normally I could take in stride challenges that happen, you know, what, whatever it is,something that didn't go the way I expected to, or, you know, bad news that I get or in any form. Okay. I noticed that my capacity to manage those other emotions and stay on track and stay on an even keel and kind of take them in stride experience and experience them, but still take them in stride. My ability to do that is dramatically less if I have not been really focusing on the things that give me joy and ensuring that I'm really building up my joy bucket.

[00:06:46] Number one, physical energy, you know, we talk about exercise and how important exercises and it definitely is. And that absolutely that physical piece of it can absolutely be an important part of, acquiring and sustaining joy in your life. But it's not the only thing because the other thing is really recognizing those things in life that give you joy and those things in life that you want and those things in your life that you need, not the shoulds, but want. And so one of the practices that I have incorporated into my life, number one, I incorporate meditation and I can tell you right now, 10 minutes of meditation and a consistent basis is absolutely life sustaining for me emotionally.

[00:09:22] Another way is to start the day thinking about three things that you really like about yourself. Three things that you're grateful for about you, okay? Maybe it might be grateful for in your life, but grateful for about who you are because the practice of joy and building joy is really centered around your experience and appreciation for you and recognizing internally what you need in order to sustain yourself and in order to build your energy. I guarantee you that if you start a practice of really focusing on that, it will reward you with benefits. It will give you resilience. It will give you energy. It will give you an ability to, accept other emotions that aren't as easy to sit with. They will be easier to tackle. If you have a full joy bucket, and, it's very interesting because I can think back to myself and my own situations where I have just felt depleted.

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