Joyworks celebrated it’s fiftieth birthday on Tuesday!

I set the timer for I know from happiness research that we have more fun when there’s a time limit on things.

Guess that’s why remembering our lives are short and this could be our last day can be so profound for our joy

So here’s my top fifteen things I’ve learned from Joyworks in fifteen minutes. (with 10 minutes editing)  I hope you enjoy  would love to hear if it resonates.

 

  • People are good with beautiful hearts; if it doesn’t look like that they need love, joy, compassion and understanding to open them. Good people can do bad things. It is ok to walk away. Who we have in our circle really matters.

  • They say that everyone just want’s to be happy. Not true. Sometimes we can all rejoice in misery and can’t help spread it -again back to point 1

  • You can do a job you love and love what you do. It is possible. Trusting in what you do and trusting the goodness of people can take you travelling all over the globe. Lighting yourself up first often is the key.

  • You don’t need to be fixed or healed to be a light to others. For none of us are broken. Don’t believe the hype. You just need to – go to point 1,2 3.

  • Life is always going to be life. It’s how we rise from the flames and how we use that fire to serve that matter. You’ve got to believe you can change and practise that change every day.

  • When at death’s door we can look back on life and have only love and gratitude for it. (I experienced this in April 2020)

  • In the top book the top 5 regrets of the dying Bronagh Weir a palliative care nurse said that one of the top regrets of the dying was not having laughed more and to have more silliness in life. I’m glad I won’t be saying that. I’m tickled pink that if you’ve been J0yworksing with me -well you won’t be saying that either!

  • We never know when we are in deep pain that it could become our purpose. Trust whatever you are going through is part of the path. You are not ‘off’ your path. However difficult it seems. You will get through it. Trust. I’m glad I have so many people in my life who transformed their pain to their purpose to help others. I’m so thankful for the people who are enlightened already and the great teaches and leaders out there I’ve been blessed to learn from. I’m so thankful for all of you here who do joy, be joy and spread joy in your preferred way with your innate talents!!

  • Helping others opens our hearts up but ONLY helping others to fill our cup up will lead to more pain. And actually we are never really ‘helping others’ we are always receiving. It’s the people who I helped in Joyworks that helped me recover three years ago. The gift is always in the giving -if giving from a FULL cup with no expectation of return .

  • Spiritual bypass happens when we put JOY as the only desired emotion. Don’t think that you always have to be happy. That you always have to put the face on. Drop the mask. Be real. Tell it how it is then choose happiness. Do this again and again and again. People will love you all the more for it and you’ll get the help you’ve always dreamed of and the life you always wished.

  • Embracing all of our emotions and treasuring each one of them as gift from the beyond as Rumi puts it so beautifully is the way to experience inner joy long term.

  • You can’t help but do the inner work when you are in such joyful experiences so often for they become a painful contrast to what is really going on in your life and they become a catalyst for change. So do more joy and make the changes in that heightened joyful state!

  • Having a consistent spiritual practise whether it’s climbing mountain or sitting on the mat deepens our joy and love for others it makes life so very beautiful -so that looking at the sky is a joyous miracle. Find something that connects you to the bigger picture and do it often!

  • All of us are struggling with something we’d like to change or want. None of us have it ‘sorted’ but ALL of us have the power to soothe and uplift. Relationships are what matter the most. Joyful experiences strengthen relationships. What can you plan today for those relationships that need help or for your inner relationship with you?

  • Laughter and bird song are the most beautiful sounds to me.  What sounds do you love to hear? Pitter patter of tiny feet, rolling rivers, your loved ones asking how you are, your heart beating, the sound of your breath- how can you get more of them in your life?  As many of you know – we play it’s a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong at the end of our events -for despite everything that’s going on – it truly is.

  • Thank you  from the bottom of my heart -each and every one of you who have been part of the Joyworks journey. You have been my greatest teachers and I love you all.

 

Love Sharon

 

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