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“We often find what we're looking for – I spy joy.”
Michele McKeag Larsen derives great pleasure in spreading joy. Her blog, www.ISpyJoy.com, focuses on seeing and sharing the multitude of joys available to us in every moment. Her great hope is that it will inspire others to constantly be on the look-out for joy, because we often find what we're looking for.
It has been said we teach best what we most need to learn. ISpyJoy.com began as a way to chronicle Michele's own journey toward happiness after suffering from the depression of closing Purple Turtle Press, the business she dreamed of for over a decade before creating it.
Michele founded Purple Turtle Press and its publications, NW Women's Journal and NW Women's Directory, to promote and empower women in business. The groundbreaking local publications grew to a following in 25 U.S. states and caused Michele to be named one of Oregon Business Magazine's 50 Great Leaders in 2005.
Michele lives in Vancouver, Wash., with her husband, two children and two dogs.
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Step 3: Forgive Yourself
There are very few things you MUST do in order to be happy. Forgiving yourself is one of them.
Some of us (like me) tend to take our mistakes, knead them like dough, roll them out over and over and then lock them in a box in our chest until they rise, doubling or tripling in [...]
Step 2: Seeking Council
Making the choice (and commitment) to be happy is huge, and it’s just the first step. Once you choose to be happy, you have to figure out how to actually be happy.
While this may seem apparent to some, for those of us climbing out of the dark places inside ourselves the path is not so [...]
Step 1: Making Up Your Mind
I can honestly say right now I am the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. And what I know for sure, is that happiness is a choice.
I did a lot of work to get where I am. But before the reading and research, before logging months and months of entries in a gratitude journal, [...]
I Spy Joy
I have been an achiever all my life. I have let my grades and my job define who I am and how valuable I am to the world. I have also let it be the main source of my happiness. Until recently.
Albert Einstein said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” He also said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” The brilliant physicist knew that life doesn’t happen “out there.” Life — and happiness — is an inside job.
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