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116. Joy NOW! · Your Enriched Self

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  I just celebrated my birthday and I could not help to reflect on some of
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  the many lessons that my mother had imparted upon me as I was growing up.
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  And one of those lessons is do not put off what you can do
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  today for tomorrow, because you never know what tomorrow is gonna bring. As
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  I was thinking about that, I started thinking about the things that I had
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  put off in my life because I was waiting for the right moment for those
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  things to manifest. I was waiting for the perfect time for those things to
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  present themselves or give me the perfect opportunity to do the thing. There is
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  no room for me in my life to continue down a path where I postpone
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  my joy. Why put off joy for tomorrow when you can live in it
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  today. You can choose joy right now. Hello, my friends from all
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  across the globe and welcome to the Your Ine rid Self Podcast. I'm your
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  host, Smilee Noir. I am a mindset coach and your mindset advocate,
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  and all that means is that I want to be intentional about what you listen
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  to on this podcast. So I create a space to talk through the things
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  that you think about, to talk through the activities and the things that you're
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  going to do in your life so that you can become more of your in
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  rit self. I understand that we live in a world that can be overwhelming
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  and it can be all too consuming, and so that's why this space and
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  this time that I curate is very critical for you and for what we're building
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  here in the Your in rit Self community. So, if you are new
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  to this podcast and you stumbled upon us, I want to welcome you and
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  thank you for joining us. And if you are a repeat listener someone who
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  has been on this journey, we are now celebrating one hundred and sixteen episodes
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  and I could not have done that without your participation, your commentary, your
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  feedback, and all the ways that we connect here in this platform. So
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  thank you for that. Now, if you know, you know, before
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  we get started into this week's topic, I like to make a deposit in
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  the bank of you, and I do that by way of affirmations. Affirmations
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  are a great way to start your day and to command your mourning. And
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  this week's affirmation is today I choose to see my life through the eyes of
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  gratitude. Today, I choose to see my life through the eyes of gratitude.
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  Today I choose to see my life through the eyes of gratitude. Now,
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  let's get ready for this week's episode of the Your Enriched Self podcast.
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  Buy the dress, wear the shoes, eat the cake. I think we've
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  all heard a version of that where we're being encouraged by someone, a friend,
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  maybe someone you saw on social media, to go do the thing,
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  to stop waiting for a grander moment than the one that you're in right now.
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  And that's what it's all about. This life that we're living. A
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  lot of us live in regrets because we don't take the opportunities when they come.
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  We are waiting. You are waiting for the grandest of opportunities to show
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  up in that room, the grandest of opportunities for you to go do the
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  thing, be bold enough to stand there, to get at that table,
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  to sit at that table, to be a contributor in a way that you
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  never were. And today it's time to stop postponing joy. As a parent,
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  I am guilty as anybody else out there about waiting until my kids were
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  at this level, at high school level, in college. There's so many
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  moments of weight that you have put in your life that you have put on
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  your life, and honestly, those moments of weight weighthed you down. It
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  weighed you down mentally because we all know that this is a mental game.
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  Every activity that you take that manifests in the natural, it starts with your
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  mind. So if you aren't clear about what you are going to do,
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  and you put yourself in this weight wa zone, you're just adding more weight
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  to that timeline and then you get bogged down, and then you wonder why
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  you feel stuck physically, mentally, emotionally, sometimes financially stuck because you put
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  the money aside to do this thing for you, but then these other things
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  come up and they deprioritize who you are on your own priority list. Imagine
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  that you getting trumped on your own priority list because you did not make room
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  for you to live in joy. Now. And I don't know if it's
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  because it's my birthday season, I don't know what it is, but this
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  stamp of joy is something I want to get across to you. Now,
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  what are you waiting for? What needs to happen for you to do the
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  thing? It's not the big thing you think it is. It's a decision.
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  Yes, it truly is a decision for you to say yes to you,
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  finally saying yes to your self else and stop postponing these moments and these
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  opportunities, and stop thinking that the challenge is not something you can push through,
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  because you can and you have and you did, and you can do
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  it again. You've made those statements of all, be so glad when I
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  lose the weight then I can go by this particular outfit. I'll be so
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  glad when I saved that money so I can take this big trip. I'll
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  be so glad when and the list goes on and on and on, and
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  you just keep stacking them deep and selling them cheap. You sell your life
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  at a cheap rate of return because in the end, when you look for
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  that bottom line, you don't have any return on your investment because all you've
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  been investing in is this. I'll be so glad when moment. I'll be
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  so glad when moment that's your investment. And today, what I want you
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  to do is to turn and change your portfolio, your life's portfolio. I
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  need you to reinvest. I need you to get diversified in joy. You
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  need joy notes, you need joy reports, you need joy transactions, you
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  need to have meaningful days where you look for joy. I remember during the
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  I remember around the pandemic season. I think we can say that it was
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  a time ago, because it feels like we're not there now fingers crossed.
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  But I remember, coming off of that first year, I decided to go
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  look for a vehicle. And I was doing all the looks, you know
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  what I mean. You're looking on all the car sites and the car Maxes
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  and all the different places, all the dealerships that are near and far and
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  all in between. And it was so interesting. As I was looking at
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  a particular car, it seemed that that particular car was something that I started
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  to recognize when I was just out and about. And I think we missed
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  the opportunity to find moments of joy. What if I did the same search
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  for things that I want to generate joy in my life. Just like I
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  was looking for that car, I was looking for this make, this model,
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  this year, all of the things. And as I was going out
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  in the world, coming out of the dealership, leaving the website, there
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  it was that car showed itself up in different colors and I'm like, wait
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  a minute, I don't ever remember really seeing this car as much as I
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  see it now, that's not coincidence. That's relevance. That's because you invested
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  time into something and the rate of return is now you're seeing this thing.
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  And this is how I want you to pay attention to your joy. I
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  want you to be intentional. Just like I was looking for that car.
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  I was looking for that car so that I can fill my life with that
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  car. But as it turns out, that car started coming to me.
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  Imagine if you treat a joy the same way. I know it sounds airy
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  fairy for you for somebody to tell you, you know, you can go
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  find your joy. You can create your joy reports and your joy notes and
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  all that. Yes, you can. You do it right now without even
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  thinking about it. I did it with the car. You did it as
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  a kid. We've all done this. You see this one car, or
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  maybe you see a colored car, a certain color, and then all of
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  a sudden you keep seeing that white car. You keep seeing white, you
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  keep seeing red. That's not coincidence. It's now relevant. It's something that
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  you have put in your mindset, and so when you go out in the
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  world, you're gonna pay attention more to those joy moments. That's why I
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  keep talking about on this podcast. Intentionality. Intent go a long way.
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  If you plan to have a good day, if you plan for good things
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  to happen to you in this day, you will find those things. That's
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  how the law of allowing works. You allow yourself to experience the world completely,
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  fully with gratitude, and you're gonna get that back. And that's what
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  I want you to do. I want you to get out of this should
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  have, could have, would a I'll be glad when world and step into
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  the reality of I can go do this now. I can have this joy
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  moment now. I do realize there are things that we have to allow the
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  time, we have to allow the financials to build and to regulate and to
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  get us to where we need to go. That isn't everything. Yes,
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  there are some things like that, but there are more things you can get
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  right now. The reach on investment of the joy, and I want you
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  to focus on that as you finish off the year of twenty twenty three.
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  I promise you if you leave this podcast episode and you start being intentional about
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  your joy, you start ending your day with a joy report, you start
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  capturing those joy notes throughout the day, you are gonna fill up your bank,
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  You are gonna fill up your life with so much joy. All you're
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  gonna do is keep receiving it, because just like seeing that car that one
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  time, you're gonna keep seeing it over and over and over again. You're
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  gonna experience joy in fullness that way, It's time to stop postponing joy,
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  and let's start with something as simple as this. What are the small things
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  that happened today that brought you joy. Maybe it was ten minutes of quiet.
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  Maybe it was a ride home that didn't have as much traffic as you
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  anticipated. Maybe it was a coffee made right. Sometimes I get my coffee
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  so good that I am singing on the way to work. I'm so happy.
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  Maybe it's a conversation that you've been postponing that you finally had and you
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  have the clarity you need, you understand a relationship. Then you now have
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  an opportunity you see postponing joy. Sometimes it's postponing a simple thing like a
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  phone call, a simple thing as taking a walk, a simple thing as
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  finding some time to go to the spa, which I recently did and it
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  was so good. I have a bank full of joy moments being at that
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  spa. I have shared it with so many people, and that's what I
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  want for you. I want you to have so much joy that you're an
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  overflow and you can give it because we know their friends and family that have
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  gaps. You get to be the giver. But in order to be the
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  giver, you need to start making investments in your bank of joy. And
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  there's no time like the present to make a decision for you to have a
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