Simple Pleasures, Everyday Joie de Vivre.

For this edition, we are going to look at some joy quotes. If you are happy, then may these make you happier. If you are unhappy, you will need to change. You have to change your attitude. You have to keep a positive attitude. So keep these quotes on hand, and approach life differently, so that you can enjoy the journey, and get the results you want. 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened'.  Dr Suess. 'I don't think of all the misery. But of all the beauty that remains'.  Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl.  'Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy'. Thicc Naht Hanh.  'Sorrow prepares you for joy, it sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the boughs of your heart. So that fresh green leaves can grow in their place, it pulls up the rotton roots. So that new roots that are...

Photo by  Alexei Scutari  on  Unsplash Our first step on our journey of joyousness  is making goals. Just one goal, not two or three or more. The hardest thing about this, is just fine-lining things down to one single thing. You might want to tie that one goal to your sense of purpose. There is a simple life purpose quiz, here: ‘ Soulhealingjournies.com/ blog/ I got the result of 'happiness' for my purpose. That is I'm interested in psychology, in information, research, psychoanalysis and writing, prose, poetry and music. But it's for a reason. So hopefully if you read my blog, I can impart some of that to you and perchance it will take off. Now Rome wasn't built in a day. So its time for some project management. Remember our journey begins with just one small step. Roughly work out how long your goal/project will take. How many hours a day you can devote to it. Work out some ballmarks such as I could write chapter one of my novel in a ...