Be a Trailblazer: Part 4 on Your Path to Joy
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Choices exist in this world. Do you know what your choices are? Your path beckons.*
First is your choice to either keep living as you are living or move toward freedom and change.
If you continue to follow your routine in a life that is unhappy, neglect your yearning and fulfill the expectations of others you will maintain your status quo and gradually feel worse. If you can’t find your way to change you may try to distract yourself with activities and substances or temporary and short-lived thrills. When you emerge, you see nothing improved and your life may have disintegrated more during your absence.
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Rally Yourself to Move Forward: Part 3 of Path to Joy
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A quiet self-talk statement to keep yourself centered and awake is this: I can find my path to joy.
Bored? Restless? Lonely? Feeling guilty about wasting time? Overeating? Starving? Numbing yourself in bars? Sex becoming dull? People uninteresting?
You weren’t always like this.
New Begins with the End of Old: part 2 of Path to Joy
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Yearning for a more joyful and fulfilling life is a major indication that you are unsatisfied where you are. It's time to move into a new way of being in the world. How do you get motivated to begin? How do you change want to action?
You want to feel alive again. You want to wake up in the morning with a smile. You want to be eager for the day and what you will experience.
How to Find Your Path to Joy: Welcome and Introduction
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Welcome to your new beginning on your path to joy. Searching for and finding your path is a task we face periodically throughout our lives. Growth and development never stops. The experience of loss and completion never stops. The need to feel alive and meaningful never stops.
Read and follow these steps, and you will find yourself on your path to joy.
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