Enjoy your own Joyful Life

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Mari Mitchell-Porter, One of Thousands of Relationship Coaches on Noomii.

“We’re so busy imposing our preferences on other people, instead of just letting them be them and enjoy their life the way they want to, that we miss our own joyful life.” Abraham-Hicks

I’m still guilty of trying to tell other people what to do and how to do it. (Much less so than I used to be, but non-the-less, guilty.)

This phrase reminds me that keeping the focus on yourself is necessary for joy to flow in your life. When you spend time insisting people do things your way, you’re inviting negativity and bad feelings to come into your life. Nobody wants to be told what to do. Nobody. You are also using energy that could be spent on creating the life you want.

When you take the focus off everybody else and put it on yourself, you can truly enjoy your own life. You now have time to acknowledge how blessed you really are, how much your loved ones enhance your life and to ponder what it is you want in your life and how to work towards it.

Actions Steps

1. Set aside some time to think about who you’re trying to push your preferences on and write their names on a list.

2. See each one as an individual who had their own preferences that may not match your own

3. Take each person you wrote down and list every good quality they possess.

4. Write down every way they bring joy to your life.

5. Decide to free yourself from telling them what to do.

6. Keep the focus on you by asking yourself what it is you want.

7. When you’re tempted to tell others what to do, remind yourself that they are very capable, just like you are, of handling their own life.

To kick your joy up a notch, watch this video my friend Jodi shared with me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9z2ELaBVJY&sns=em

Have a great and joyful day,

Mari

Mari Mitchell Porter, CPC
Certified Professional Coach
mari@lifecoachmari.com
http://lifecoachmari.com/