Protect Your Joy
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Have you ever had one of those days where your to-do list reads like an endless pit of things you “have to do”?
Pick up groceries.
Respond to emails.
Pay the bills.
Complete sales report.
Meanwhile, joy feels like a luxury item - something you might get to. After meetings. After laundry. After you get a break from your to-do list.
No wonder motivation is hard to come by.
It could seem that you’re fulfilling some obligation to meet another obligation, which in turn fulfills yet another one. Obligations are stacked, and amidst all of them, your happiness may be an afterthought or just missing!
But you could reframe this. Put your activities in two buckets:
Things that add to your happiness, and
Things that protect that happiness.
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