Happy New Year!
Happy New Year’s Day Ladies!
We are so blessed and thankful that God allowed us to see another year! Here are some tips that we help us all live in a JOY-Full state of mind no matter what circumstance we may face:
1) Declutter your mind-let go of any anxiety, disappointment, setbacks, etc from 2024!
2) Get connected with a Church that you can get involved with, research shows that people that are connected to a faith based organization tend to be happier and live longer.
3) Be intentional in blessing random people this year: buy $5 gift cards to a coffee place and leave them in the glove compartment and throughout the year, hand them to various people you see in the stores, or at the Doctor or Dentist office-JOY is especially needed in the Dentist's office-lol, anywhere that you are out and about. It brings much JOY when people see that you care about them even if you don’t personally know them.
4) Volunteer or serve in your community in various ways such as the soup kitchen, taking meals to the sick or homebound. Keep a donation bin in your house and as your children outgrow the clothes or toys placed it in there, when it is full drop it off at a homeless shelter or someone that's in need. When we serve and give to others it produces JOY.
5) Do regular Self-Care and Soul Care, when you properly take care of yourself you will have the strength and stamina to take care of others. Most of us have probably heard the statement before: “you can’t pour from an empty cup." Our body (temple) belongs to God which means we should properly take care of it by: drinking water, exercising, reducing stress, setting proper emotional boundaries, getting enough sleep, seeing a primary doctor etc. (I’ll be talking more about this in upcoming JOY Sessions-you don't want to miss it!)
***Bonus: In order to keep a Joy-FULL state in 2025 we must have God living inside us and a personal relationship with him, Why? Because true JOY only comes from him! We can find some level of happiness without God but we will never find true JOY without him.
If you are looking for ways to have consistent JOY in your life despite challenging times in your life then join us at our JOY session. We alternate between in person and virtual sessions on various topics, our guest speakers are people who have either experienced the subject manner first hand or has training in that topic.
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