Revista M&N Edición No 17 M_N MAGAZINE-17ta-ED-v1 | Page 12

LIFEPRENEURSHIP
JOY IN THE
MORNING,
JOY EVERYDAY
“When you do things from your soul, you feel
a river moving in you, a joy” - Rumi
~ Rumi
By: Bikundo Onyari
Lifepreneur Coach
D
o you feel there is something missing from
your life? That perhaps the world is against
you or that other people seem to smile, laugh
and be a lot happier and contended in life
than you are? Have you ever stopped to wonder why
this be so? What can you do about it? Have you even
considered what joy actually is?
Joy and contentment in life differs from one person
to another. What makes me experience joy does not
necessarily bring contentment to another person be
it a family member, friend, colleague or stranger.
Very often we experience joy in our lives, but we don’t
realize it. We are in a rat race and often that hustle and
bustle can completely overtake everything else and
leave us little time and room to enjoy the small things
that make us smile and enjoy life to the fullest. If you
pause from your hustle and sit down and think about
what makes you happy, contended and feel joy, you
might find you have those things already around you
and inside you, but you just didn’t realize it.
However, life has an ebb and flow in our lives. There
are times when we can get into a slump and we
will not be able to experience joy and contentment.
If this is the case, then you have to figure out what
awareness is need to bring joy into your life. In most
case it is the smallest of things that bring joy and you
have the power to gain them by working towards
them.
Your joy, happiness and contentment depends entirely
on you, no one else can give it to you, it is something
inside you that you have to find and work towards.
The greatest tragedy of life is that we else think our
help is external yet its deep within us. You can either
decide to stop in rut or take some positive action
and make necessary changes in your life in order to
experience joy always.
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Once you understand
what your vision of
joy, happiness and
contentment is, you can
build what you have now
or focus on changing
your life to what you
would like it to be.
In order to understand what joy means to you, the
first step you should take is to look at your emotions,
ask yourself questions such as “if I could be enjoying
something in my life, what would it be?” and “what
makes me feel contended in my life right?”
The important thing to remember is to examine your
feelings by way of the answers you give to your
questions, examine them honestly and concentrate
on the good or bad feelings that you get from your
questions and answers.
The magic to bring joy, happiness and contentment in
your life is to be aware that it is already there inside
you, you just have to bring it out and develop it to
start enjoying life. Joy can be found in family life,
work, relationships, nature to name just a few. In fact,
it can be found in anything and any situation if you
just know where to look and look in the right direction,
the inner you.
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