Hi Everyone!
Welcome to our first edition of JOY NEWS!
It's a very exciting time for us at The Joy Project because we launched the Online Learning Program recently and you would be amazed to see what people are writing and how wonderfully inspiring it is to read what they write.
Aviva is our first participant and we could not have been blessed with a more wonderful initiate!
She lives in Israel and writes beautifully - mind you - ALL of our Joy mates (as we call them) are writing incredibly uplifting joy jottings.
Aviva is already up to the fourth pillar - Reverence - she is almost halfway through her Ph D in joy!
Ok - so it's not a real academic Ph D in joy, nor is it an "official" University but we like to call it our JOY U. And we are happy to call you Dr Joy at the end of it!
And we really are global now! We have people from Israel, Denmark, Ireland, the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada!
We wanted to share with you some of the many encouraging and inspiring comments Aviva and some of our other participants made;
"I am loving this program. To wake each morning feeling grateful is superb. I have joy in my heart and know that each day will be as I wish it to be. Yes! joy is bubbling up inside me. I feel an excitement that has been missing for quite a while. I am optimistic. I am treating myself with more love and respect and kindness. I am enjoying listening to others and being heard. I am clearing the cobwebs out of the corners of my mind, opening the shutters on my eyes. I am not living in a fantasy world but in my joyful reality! I thank you for an amazing week!!"
" I stumbled across Amanda and The Joy Project by accident... I think it was through Cheryl Richardson's Facebook Page! And I wanted to join this course because I want others to experience the joy I have in my life... and I want to make sure that I continue having such a wonderful joyous life!! Maybe I feel it's a bit like an Insurance policy!! So onward and upward and zooties to everyone here!!"
"This is AMAZING!! I am so thrilled to have access to this simple little technique at all times! So silly, all this time I've been trying to listen in my head, but as soon as I shifted focus to my heart I was at peace! I also noticed it was quite interesting that I felt both calm AND energized at the same time in that place. I am just going to sit with this buzzing feeling of my life about to transform into all that I've ever wanted! YES!! Thank you! Thank you, thank you!! I feel just wonderful and so blessed!! Zoot zoot zoot to all I'm about to meet on this spectacular journey."
If you would like to learn more about the program CLICK HERE to see a video of Amanda talking about the Joy U and the 12 Pillars of joy.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE - FREE GIFTS!
Because this is first official newsletter and you are our first 2000 people to have signed up, and because our mission is to create a global joy community, we want to give you a gift.
For the month of April ONLY, we are giving you the opportunity to sign up for the first pillar of the Online Learning program: Gratitude - for FREE!
If you have already paid, we hope you are ok with this and that you will forward the link as a gift for someone else you think might enjoy it, and would participate.
It would make a great birthday gift or anniversary present - or a gift for someone who needs more joy in their life!
Feel free to share it with as many people as you would like so we can;
a) Help people find their Joy and
b) Reach as many people as we can and
c) Have them complete their Ph D's!
WELCOME AND THANK YOU for being the beginning of our global joy community - changing the world, one tribe at a time!
Zooties!
Amanda, Sheryl & the team
P.S We hope you enjoy this newsletter! Feel free to forward it to your family and friends.
Amanda's Take - Why is Joy so important and would you help us?
I spent this weekend at The National Speakers Association conference in Melbourne and it was brilliant!
I was explaining to someone how we are renaming The Gospel of Joy and searching for a new title and she asked me - what are the benefits from reading the book?
She had meant it from a marketing perspective where most people try to link their books to loosing weight, better sex, making money, finding life balance or happier relationships! Those are the five most powerful reasons to pick up books apparently!
When a book helps you to become a more grateful, compassionate, hopeful, forgiving, loving person, who has more energy and vitality, laughs a lot, listens better, is cheerfully enthusiastic and stress free most of the time - how do you define the benefits in a punchy popular way?!
Many of you have read the book and if you have any thoughts on what the benefits have been for you, I would be so grateful if you would share it with us - and of course, if you have a brilliant catchy title that would make people run to read the book - we would love that too!
The benefits I outlined are why Joy is so important! If you follow the daily simple exercises, you really will become a person who finds more gratitude in life, who is more compassionate, loving, forgiving and reverent. You will appreciate people more and love your life - just the way it is. Life will seem simpler, less stressed and you will be more peaceful and satisfied. That's why a focus on joy is so important!
We would love to hear what you think...Please click here to share those ideas with us!
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We are all living lives based on patterns and habits, ruled unconsciously by fear.
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A year ago I made it my mission to have a space in our home for my friends to come and work on their JOY Stories. My husband Don said make sure to find something you love! Amanda and I had been chatting via email and I told her my plan. She said why call it scrapbooking? Why not call it JOYbooking! This is how we found our name JOYBookers by Cynthia...
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Meet the Team
Sheryl Martin - Amanda's partner in Joy
Sheryl and Amanda met through, Sheryl's husband Wayne and it took months before they could catch up, only to find they lived 10 houses apart! Sheryl had run a successful business in Perth and was now looking for another entrepreneurial venture. She is gorgeous, gentle and very organized, plus she is a FABULOUS cook! They immediately clicked and voila! The Joy Project had a real beginning! ... Read more
"Look at this day; in it lies all the realities and verities of existence, the bliss of growth, the splendour of action, the glory of power. For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope"
- Sanskrit proverb
Good Stuff to Know
Joy filled videos
We're continuously researching for new, interesting and joyful clips! We hope you en-joy this months feature.
Joy in the Kitchen
This month's delicious recipe
Food is the way to the heart and the soul.... As we celebrate Easter this month, we share this fabulous recipe for Hot Cross Buns.
Online Learning Program
Rewire your brain to JOY
The Joy U Online Learning Program brings the Gospel of Joy book to life!
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