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How to Find Joy Every Day
Two things you can do right now to make your day more joyful
Finding Joy in the Morning: You can make it through the night is a book about how to find joy every morning, even after life’s darkest nights.
The book includes more than 40 simple things you can do every day to feel joy. Below is an excerpt featuring two things you can do right now to make your day more joyful.
Let Go of What You Can’t Control
Trying to control something that’s out of your control is guaranteed to suck all of the joy out of your day. But letting go of what you can’t control is far easier said than done for most of us.
Several years ago, a client told me that he put things into two circles — the circle of control and the circle of concern. The circle of control contained things he could do something about; the circle of concern contained things that might affect him but that he couldn’t do anything about.
For things in the circle of control, he figured out what he needed to do and took action. For things in the circle of concern, he let go — he didn’t worry or even think about them because it was a waste of time and energy. I’m sure he adapted…
