To Be Joyfully Determined

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Do what brings you joy by finding joy in what you do.

To Be Joyfully Determined

So often we focus on what is wrong, and we let that determine the course of our lives. What if we choose instead to focus on what is right, on what makes us happy, on what fulfills us? What if we choose instead to be joyfully determined?

Start with joy. Ask yourself: What brings me joy? Ask this every single day. Notice the answers. Remember the answers. And be joyful.

by Joshua Mason Pawelek, minister, Unitarian Universalist Society: East, Manchester, Connecticut  TO READ MORE


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One response to “To Be Joyfully Determined

  1. Nicki Hamilton

    This really spoke to me! People used to laugh at Norman Vincent Peale but suddenly thinking of what gave me joy in life did lift my spirits and encourage me to change my outlook.

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