Learn How To Find Happiness With M Louise Pistole’s New Book Called: Discover Your Joy

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Welcome to another episode of Crazy Fitness Guy

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Healthy Living Podcast. Today, I'm going live

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with my friend, Louise, who's going to talk about

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our Discover Your Joy with our new book out.

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Welcome aboard, Louise. Hey, Jimmy. Thank you

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for having me today. I'm excited to talk to your...

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viewers about something very close to my heart,

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and that is joy. And how did you come up with

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the book title? Well, I had been through divorce

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and the death of my daddy. I was working really

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long hours and a very stressful career, and life

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had just got me down. And one Sunday morning,

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my minister talked about joy and to watch out

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for joy stealers. And his message resonated with

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me, and my journey to joy was begun there that

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day. I started reading a lot about joy, and people

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have a lot of different thoughts on joy. But

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I tried to be real open -minded and read everything

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I could and started collecting. full sayings

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on joy, and I fill my house with all of that.

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And the time finally came when it was time for

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me to put it all together into a book. And the

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title actually came from that as long as it took

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me to find my joy, I wanted to make it easier

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for other people to discover their own joy in

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their life. How long did it take you to write

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the book? It actually took me two years. I had

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hoped to do it in a much smaller, shorter amount

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of time. But it is a daily inspirational book,

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so I needed a page for every single day of the

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year. Every single day was totally different,

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starting anew. It wasn't like writing a story

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where every page builds on the page before. So

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it actually took me much longer to write it than

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I had anticipated, but it was okay. And in the

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end, it all worked out and I was really proud

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of the way it turned out. I had a lot of help

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along the way. So even though it turned into

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a two -year project, I'm the one that believes

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things happen the way they're supposed to and

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when they're supposed to. And this is the perfect

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time for it to be released. I am convinced. Well,

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you definitely picked a good time to release

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it because I think everybody needs some joy around

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because of the whole pandemic. It's getting everybody

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less joy. Well, you're right, Jimmy. And, you

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know, when I started this, now this message that

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I'm talking about that I heard from my minister,

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that was 10 years before I started writing the

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book. So now here we are 12 years later in a

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pandemic. And of course, through all that time

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frame, I had no idea when I started this journey

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that we would be in a pandemic when the book

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was released. You and I have talked about that,

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and we're both aware of the fact that the pandemic

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has caused a lot of people to have issues, withdrawal

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issues. They feel alone. There's so much going

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on today that a lot of people have lost the joy

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if, in fact, they did have it to start with.

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So it did turn out to be a good time to release

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this out into the world. Yeah. And where can

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people find your book? It is on Amazon. I know

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that for a fact. Some other people had asked

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me if they could find it anywhere besides Amazon.

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And I did do a search and I found it online anyway.

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Barnes & Noble, of course, and Walmart, Books

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Chameleon. I think pretty much any bookstore,

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any store that carries a stock of books probably

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has it at least in their online store. And so

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can you give me a little bit of insight of what

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your book is about? Like I got it from your title,

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but... I wish I could be able to read it, but,

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you know, the amazing mail service. Yeah, I'd

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love to tell you a little bit about it, Jimmy.

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And actually, I did put a copy in the mail to

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you, so you will have a copy coming your way

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very soon. And I hope that once you get it, that

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you will be pleasantly pleased with it. But like

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I said, it is a daily inspirational book. And

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every day starts out with, I lost my thought.

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It starts out with an I am statement. You know,

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I am happy today. I'm going to choose joy today.

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You know, with those affirmations. That's my

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Tell yourself those statements on a regular basis.

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You become what you believe. can inspire you

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to choose joy it's organized now i'm sorry jimmy

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no is it definitely i totally agree um it's organized

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by month so you know every every month is a chapter

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so to speak and and every month covers a specific

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topic there is july is the month of joy and happiness

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but there's the month of hope and encouragement.

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And of course, the holidays have a lot. And then

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each month starts off with a small challenge

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saying, think about this. How would you feel

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if you could do this? And then we kind of point

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back to that challenge throughout the month.

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And the last day of the month, we ask you to

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look back and see how did you change your thought

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patterns this month? by reading all about, I'll

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say, hope in that case. And then there is a page

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every month to journal whatever thoughts or quotes

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that you want to keep up with and be reminded

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of and have easy access to. So it's a short read,

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three to five minutes every morning, give you

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enough inspiration to get going through the day.

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And well, hopefully over time, if you can keep

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it up on a daily basis, it should raise your

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vibrations, raise your awareness of joy, give

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you that inspiration to seek joy every day. Would

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you mind sharing a little bit about what your

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pastor meant? message was? You know, Jimmy, I

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have thought back about that so many times and

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I wish I could remember the whole message. You

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know, what stuck with me was his message was

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based on 1 Thessalonians 5 .16, which is be joyful

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always. And I remember the verse and I remembered

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him talking about joy stealers and people that

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are negative and will try to bring you down and

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they'll tell you everything that's wrong with

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the world everything that's wrong with everything

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in my studies i found out that joy stealers aren't

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always people sometimes it's our distractions

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in life we get addicted to social media or you

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know watching a series on television Whatever

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your distraction is, they also can steal your

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joy. Joy is something that once it's rooted deep

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in your heart and you're true to that joy, it's

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going to be there. But for someone who really

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has not experienced joy or not experienced it

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on a daily basis, It has to become a habit just

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like anything else. The more you reach out, the

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more you look for joy, the more it becomes part

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of your being. And it's easier to kind of dispel

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those joy stealers, so to speak. Kind of one

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of my things to do is I've been in several situations

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recently where people were putting down whatever

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it was, another person, the food, whatever. We

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all read all this on social media all the time

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about, you know, play nice. But as people are

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doing all this, sometimes I can say either change

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the subject or say something kind about the situation.

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And it will flip the conversation. And all of

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a sudden people will start talking differently.

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But until they stop. If I don't stop somebody

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from saying all that, they're going to steal

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my joy. And I'm not willing to let it go. So

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the best thing I can do is to try to flip the

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conversation to something a little more pleasant.

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I can definitely relate to you on that. I know

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there's some people, I'm not going to name any

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names, but some people kind of, take the joy

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out of what I do sometimes. It's like, oh, well,

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it's really hard, or I was like, you think you

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can actually do what you do? And I was like,

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you know what's funny? I don't have to do what

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I do. And I was like, I could just go get a job

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like everyone else, nine to five, work for someone

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I really don't want to work for. I can be like...

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I don't know, the most unhappy person in the

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world, but who wants to be the most unhappy person

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in the world? Not me. I know. I mean, and I have

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actually even met people, and you probably have

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too, that they're not happy unless they're not

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happy. I had this one friend, and everything

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in the world was always wrong, and you would

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try to point out the good in something. He would

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not have it. He was going to be unhappy and nobody

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was going to change it. And so that just had

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to become a person that I just do not want to

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associate with, actually. I totally agree. It's

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like, I heard this from a, I forget who told

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me this, but you know, it's like, You're the

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only one who can choose to be happy. No one else

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is going to tell you. It's time for you to be

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happy. At the end of the day, it's up to you.

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It's up to your mindset. Your happiness is what

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you want it to be. Someone also told me that

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everyone has a different version of happiness.

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What is your happiness? Yeah, I think people

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do have different versions of happiness and what

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makes you happy. And that's okay. You know, and

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happiness is often thought of as something that

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makes you happy for now. You know, it's an ice

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cream cone, I'll say. And in reality, joy is

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And listening to you just now, this might not

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sound really nice, but anyway. I remember my

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mother always saying, you know, if any of us

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children were having a down day, she would just

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say, you're going to get happy in the same skin

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you got sad in. So, you know, just go ahead and

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get happy. And it's true that we can't let other

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people dictate our own happiness and joy. They

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may affect us for some period of time. But we

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are the ones that have to choose to move on,

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do what we have to with the situation to make

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it workable for us and maintain our happiness

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and joy. And so can you give me an example of

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a few things that make you feel joy? Excuse me.

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Well, the favorite thing I like to talk about,

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of course, is my grandchildren. And there's two

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of them, a boy and a girl. And I can hold them

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in my thoughts. And just because, I guess, children

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and grandchildren are so special to parents and

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grandparents. There was so much love there that

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just holding on to my thoughts of them has always

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been able to keep me from falling back into a

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state of despair. I think if everyone could find

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that one thing that does make you feel happy

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and joyful, If you can come up with one thing

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that you can always go to, you know, well, I'll

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back up just a little bit there. Because I often

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tell people, look for moments of joy in whatever's

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going on. Whatever's going on, look for that

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teeny sliver of moment of joy in it. And that

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will help turn you around. There may not always

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be something joyful, or you may not always be

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able to see that. And so if you have sitting

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out here in space, I'll say something that you

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know is always going to make you feel better

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when you think about that. Commit that to memory.

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Hold on to that. And when things are going bad,

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say, today I'm just going to think about Clem

00:19:35.190 --> 00:19:39.660
and Jacqueline, my grandchildren. And how happy

00:19:39.660 --> 00:19:42.460
I am when they are with me and when they stay

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with me. And just kind of build on that and keep

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telling yourself every day, this makes me happy,

00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:55.259
this brings me joy. But have something that you

00:19:55.259 --> 00:20:04.920
can hold on to. And so, I think for me, I think

00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:14.089
for me, I never really thought of what brings

00:20:14.089 --> 00:20:18.690
me joy. I always feel like I'm going from one

00:20:18.690 --> 00:20:23.109
task to another task. I'm always going from one

00:20:23.109 --> 00:20:29.970
place to another place. And sometimes I struggle

00:20:29.970 --> 00:20:34.009
with it too, figuring it out. I think that's

00:20:34.009 --> 00:20:38.849
very common, Jimmy. That's the way most of us

00:20:38.849 --> 00:20:42.390
function is we go along through our day and we

00:20:42.390 --> 00:20:46.009
do the next task that's in front of us, the next

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thing that we need to do, and we're not really

00:20:49.750 --> 00:20:54.069
giving it a lot of thought. That is one goal

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for my book is that taking five minutes in the

00:20:58.970 --> 00:21:05.170
morning just to consciously read a positive affirmation,

00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:10.180
an inspirational story. And then each page closes

00:21:10.180 --> 00:21:15.079
with either a Bible verse or a quote. And just

00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:19.220
kind of let that wash over you. And hopefully

00:21:19.220 --> 00:21:23.700
you would start off on a better day. I feel like

00:21:23.700 --> 00:21:27.259
if we start our day on a positive note, we've

00:21:27.259 --> 00:21:31.819
got a better chance of having a good day as opposed

00:21:31.819 --> 00:21:35.269
to just... getting up and going through the motions

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of getting ready and hurrying around and getting

00:21:37.569 --> 00:21:39.490
breakfast and getting out the door and getting,

00:21:39.569 --> 00:21:44.509
you know, all this. It's a crazy way to start

00:21:44.509 --> 00:21:47.410
our day. But I think it's probably the most common

00:21:47.410 --> 00:21:53.890
way people start their day, too. I totally agree

00:21:53.890 --> 00:21:57.730
with you on that. Like, I've... There's some

00:21:57.730 --> 00:22:02.619
days where that... I feel like sometimes people

00:22:02.619 --> 00:22:06.240
tell me certain news that is happening around

00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:08.859
the world. And I'm like, I don't really care

00:22:08.859 --> 00:22:11.779
what's happening around the world. And it's like,

00:22:11.779 --> 00:22:14.779
I'd rather kind of live under a rock at the moment.

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And it's like, you know, I actually use Google

00:22:20.059 --> 00:22:24.440
News on my phone. And I've been filtering out

00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:28.369
so many. Everything that just related to all

00:22:28.369 --> 00:22:32.349
the pandemic and all the unhappy news, because

00:22:32.349 --> 00:22:36.549
it starts affecting your mental health. And I

00:22:36.549 --> 00:22:39.150
remember last semester when I was reading all

00:22:39.150 --> 00:22:42.869
this stuff for English class, the most depressing

00:22:42.869 --> 00:22:47.130
stuff I've ever read in my life. And I really

00:22:47.130 --> 00:22:49.809
wanted to ask my teacher. I didn't ask her, but

00:22:49.809 --> 00:22:56.000
she says. She made me read all this unhappy stuff

00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:58.599
and I was like, where did you go on the web to

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find this, like the most depressing area of the

00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:02.779
internet? I was like, I didn't even know this

00:23:02.779 --> 00:23:07.759
existed until now. Well, and I think you're right.

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And I have heard other speakers say, just quit

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watching the news. And now I used to be one that

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I wanted to watch at least the national news

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in the podcast description. Now let's get back

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to the show. Last year when the pandemic was

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starting and there was so much information coming

00:24:15.450 --> 00:24:18.210
out and nobody really knew what was going on.

00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:22.720
I was watching that every single night. And finally

00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:25.759
one day I just said, I can't watch this anymore.

00:24:26.099 --> 00:24:28.680
I haven't watched the news since. Might turn

00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:32.839
on the weather or something. But we know enough

00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:35.640
about what's going on. It's the way I feel about

00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:38.180
it. And if there's something else I need to know,

00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:42.420
somebody's going to tell me. Rather than fill

00:24:42.420 --> 00:24:47.539
my head, my heart, and my soul with all the negativity,

00:24:48.410 --> 00:24:53.210
that we hear on the news today. It's depressing,

00:24:53.609 --> 00:24:57.210
that's for sure. And I'm pretty careful about

00:24:57.210 --> 00:25:00.410
what I read, too. I might read headlines, and

00:25:00.410 --> 00:25:03.049
I might learn what's going on from something

00:25:03.049 --> 00:25:05.470
like that, and I may even click on an article.

00:25:05.690 --> 00:25:09.150
But I'm not going to fill myself with all the

00:25:09.150 --> 00:25:15.660
negative news that's out there now. When I see

00:25:15.660 --> 00:25:19.700
stuff in Google News, I read a headline. If I

00:25:19.700 --> 00:25:22.779
want to read it, I click on it. If I don't, I

00:25:22.779 --> 00:25:28.039
either see if there's... Sometimes they give

00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:30.480
you an option of whether or not to see less of

00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:33.559
these stories or more of these stories. And if

00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:35.779
I see one of those buttons, I was like... And

00:25:35.779 --> 00:25:37.339
depending on what the headline is, I was like,

00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:41.359
less. I was like, I think they should have three

00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:44.349
buttons. It's like... Never, ever again. Not

00:25:44.349 --> 00:25:48.809
even less. Just like, just never. Right. So.

00:25:49.970 --> 00:25:52.710
Come on, Google. Let me just say never, ever

00:25:52.710 --> 00:25:58.509
again. Feel free to take that, Google. Yeah.

00:25:58.670 --> 00:26:03.630
I'm careful about what I read. I want to be in

00:26:03.630 --> 00:26:09.029
the know enough that I'm aware of what's going

00:26:09.029 --> 00:26:14.029
on around me. But I also, I don't want to be

00:26:14.029 --> 00:26:17.869
in a position that I'm living in constant worry

00:26:17.869 --> 00:26:23.769
or fear either. That makes sense. I know for

00:26:23.769 --> 00:26:27.509
myself, like, it's not that I'm, like, I want

00:26:27.509 --> 00:26:32.009
to live under a rock. But for me, it's sometimes

00:26:32.009 --> 00:26:36.269
it's hard for me to just keep moving forward.

00:26:37.819 --> 00:26:42.759
going to be a motivational speaker or because

00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:47.859
I have all this other stuff behind me in my back

00:26:47.859 --> 00:26:53.619
of my mind. And it's like, really? Do I need

00:26:53.619 --> 00:26:56.160
to have this in my mind at the moment? I really

00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:00.559
don't need it. Well, and one thing I would say

00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:02.579
to you and it's something that I say to a lot

00:27:02.579 --> 00:27:04.680
of people and I do even talk about it in the

00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:10.859
book is keeping a journal and all those things

00:27:10.859 --> 00:27:13.440
that are roaming around in your head and i have

00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:16.440
them too i'll tell you and i try just to write

00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:18.700
them all down everything that's on my mind that

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:20.759
i think i should be thinking about i think i

00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:23.440
should be worrying about i think i should be

00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:27.740
researching just write them down and then i know

00:27:27.740 --> 00:27:29.859
i'm not going to forget about it it's written

00:27:29.859 --> 00:27:34.150
down it's on a list and If I look back over that

00:27:34.150 --> 00:27:38.410
list tomorrow or next week and some of those

00:27:38.410 --> 00:27:41.289
things I just cross off, they didn't need to

00:27:41.289 --> 00:27:44.849
happen. They're okay. Some of them I maybe decide,

00:27:45.049 --> 00:27:48.349
okay, it's time to address it. But I do think

00:27:48.349 --> 00:27:52.089
that writing things down and keeping a journal

00:27:52.089 --> 00:27:55.289
and keeping it going forward, and I even try

00:27:55.289 --> 00:27:58.309
to write things down every day, the good things,

00:27:58.430 --> 00:28:00.529
the things that are on my mind, whatever it is.

00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:06.240
I think it helps me to grow. It helps me to not

00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:10.539
worry and not live in fear. And I see the good

00:28:10.539 --> 00:28:16.259
things in life. I'm convinced that gratitude

00:28:16.259 --> 00:28:23.339
is our shortcut to joy. And I use that journal

00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:26.660
also every day to write down things that I'm

00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:29.859
grateful for. Not just the big things, but the

00:28:29.859 --> 00:28:32.680
little things too. You know, I sat on the front

00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:36.200
porch and heard the birds sing. Even the little

00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:38.279
things, just the things that you were grateful

00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:42.460
for. And that heart of gratitude has a way to

00:28:42.460 --> 00:28:46.839
carry you closer to joy. But back to the journaling

00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:50.359
part. Journaling all that, writing things down,

00:28:50.539 --> 00:28:55.299
moves you closer and closer and closer to living

00:28:55.299 --> 00:28:58.740
a positive life. Not just you, but everybody.

00:29:03.150 --> 00:29:06.710
And it's a way to look back. I've got journals

00:29:06.710 --> 00:29:11.529
for the last 20 years or so. Look back over those

00:29:11.529 --> 00:29:14.809
journals and see where I've come from. See what

00:29:14.809 --> 00:29:18.230
was going on 10 years ago. And I go, oh, my gosh,

00:29:18.349 --> 00:29:21.630
look at where I am today. Look at how I was feeling

00:29:21.630 --> 00:29:26.849
10 years ago or five years ago. So that is one

00:29:26.849 --> 00:29:30.650
thing you can do to kind of unscramble your brain,

00:29:30.809 --> 00:29:35.099
so to speak. Write it all down. Because I worry

00:29:35.099 --> 00:29:37.779
I'll forget it if I don't write it down. I've

00:29:37.779 --> 00:29:40.000
got to keep remembering this so I won't forget.

00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:44.480
But writing it down, I have access to it when

00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.279
I'm ready for that information. I totally agree

00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:51.500
with you because I use a journal on my phone

00:29:51.500 --> 00:29:57.859
because my handwriting, if anybody knows me in

00:29:57.859 --> 00:30:02.630
real life, they, I mean in person, My handwriting

00:30:02.630 --> 00:30:07.029
looks like a two -year -old. Actually, no. I

00:30:07.029 --> 00:30:09.730
think a two -year -old could write better than

00:30:09.730 --> 00:30:15.049
me. And I don't mean writing by typing. I mean

00:30:15.049 --> 00:30:18.390
writing by pencil and paper. It looks really,

00:30:18.430 --> 00:30:21.910
really bad. Like, no one could forge my handwriting

00:30:21.910 --> 00:30:25.710
because it's very inconsistent. And my dad's

00:30:25.710 --> 00:30:27.829
like, I can forge your handwriting. And I was

00:30:27.829 --> 00:30:30.289
like, but how good can you forge it? Because,

00:30:30.309 --> 00:30:33.650
and it's like, it's different. I had, sometimes

00:30:33.650 --> 00:30:36.990
my, sometimes it's really big, sometimes it's

00:30:36.990 --> 00:30:38.910
really small, sometimes it's crunched together.

00:30:40.109 --> 00:30:45.450
Totally, it's terrible. Don't even get me started

00:30:45.450 --> 00:30:49.069
on cursive writing. And that's OK. You know,

00:30:49.109 --> 00:30:51.069
the idea is to get your thoughts out of your

00:30:51.069 --> 00:30:56.829
head and down somewhere else. And digital journaling

00:30:56.829 --> 00:31:00.170
is probably more popular now than it's ever been

00:31:00.170 --> 00:31:03.950
before. I'm a paper and pen kind of gal, but

00:31:03.950 --> 00:31:06.390
that's what works for me. And I think we all

00:31:06.390 --> 00:31:09.369
have to do what works for us. You're not going

00:31:09.369 --> 00:31:10.869
to do it. You're not going to be consistent.

00:31:11.009 --> 00:31:13.390
You're not going to keep it up if it's not a

00:31:13.390 --> 00:31:17.200
system that you're comfortable with. So writing

00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.619
that down, put it in the notes section of your

00:31:19.619 --> 00:31:22.359
phone or something like that. That's a perfect

00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:28.259
way to do that. Absolutely. Definitely. I definitely

00:31:28.259 --> 00:31:36.400
need to have the digital journal because then

00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:41.079
I can sync across all of my devices. I have three

00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:44.609
devices. One's a Windows computer, one's a Chromebook,

00:31:44.710 --> 00:31:48.289
and one is my phone. And I'm not always on the

00:31:48.289 --> 00:31:51.650
go, but like today, I went down to my shore house

00:31:51.650 --> 00:31:55.750
because I have three house showings this weekend.

00:31:56.190 --> 00:31:59.849
And they kind of just get in my way of my daily

00:31:59.849 --> 00:32:03.930
life. And it's not relaxing for me because I

00:32:03.930 --> 00:32:06.230
have to leave the house, go do something, and

00:32:06.230 --> 00:32:10.589
pretend I'm busy and be in the car. Now, this

00:32:10.589 --> 00:32:13.490
is not awkward at all. And then, like, half of

00:32:13.490 --> 00:32:15.970
my neighbors in my neighborhood, like, stare

00:32:15.970 --> 00:32:17.930
at me in the car. It's like, what's this person

00:32:17.930 --> 00:32:20.049
doing? It's like, I'm sitting here reading my

00:32:20.049 --> 00:32:25.529
book. And there's, like... And, like, one time

00:32:25.529 --> 00:32:27.549
I had to leave the house on a Sunday morning

00:32:27.549 --> 00:32:29.950
when it was pouring rain outside. This person

00:32:29.950 --> 00:32:33.130
literally drives by my car, looked at me, and

00:32:33.130 --> 00:32:35.990
was like, yeah, I'm reading here. And I was like,

00:32:36.029 --> 00:32:40.029
I'm sorry, but... I'm like, I'm just waiting

00:32:40.029 --> 00:32:42.089
for someone to just like call the police on me

00:32:42.089 --> 00:32:44.029
or something. Just sitting in the front of the

00:32:44.029 --> 00:32:46.490
house. It's like, I'm not even watching your

00:32:46.490 --> 00:32:51.210
house. I'm reading my book. Oh, my God. Oh, my

00:32:51.210 --> 00:32:55.170
gosh. Well, selling a house can be stressful

00:32:55.170 --> 00:33:00.109
within itself. And I understand that about, you

00:33:00.109 --> 00:33:02.549
know, it's easier just to get away. Just let

00:33:02.549 --> 00:33:05.309
the realtor take care of it for the weekend for

00:33:05.309 --> 00:33:07.809
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00:33:07.809 --> 00:33:12.690
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