A Year Of Joy #26 – Joyful in knowledge

I  joyfully acknowledge what makes me happy.

I pursue that direction in order to maintain my happiness.

I can tell the difference between joyful pursuit and enforced habitual discipline.

Even though obedience and discipline can create worthy accomplishments, they do not substitute for joy.

I live in creative ecstasy when I live in joy.

I can learn whatever I need in order to increase my effectiveness.

I enjoy expanding my knowledge.

I enjoy expanding my outreach.

Every minute I spend in joy creates a beautiful life for myself.

I love living my beautiful life.

It is a happy and joyful thing to know that I can learn to do this.

I can increase my knowledge in ways which create a joyful life.

I am uplifted by the knowledge of new wonderful things.

I love the new skills I acquire.

I am willing to practice them to increase my fluency.

I am willing to learn new things even though they are challenging.

I expand my foundation and capacity for happiness with my new knowledge.

I give myself permission to lean whatever I am interested in.

I allow myself room to explore.

I am confident that my new skills will come together in an uplifting way.

I am glad to add to my happiness to increase the joy on the planet.

Learning how to uplift myself into joy allows me to encourage others to create joy in their lives.

This is valuable knowledge.

I am grateful for the opportunity to learn more about joy and to include more joy in my life.

© 2025 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

 A Year Of Joy #25 – Innocence of joy

We are free to be joyful.

Whatever we need to release from the past, we can.

We are always moving forward in time and in opportunity.

We embrace our new experiences.

We allow ourselves to enjoy the present moment.

We encourage ourselves to take new tiny steps.

We allow ourselves to move in a wider circle.

We accept that we are not limited.

We explore new opportunities.

We discover what we love to do.

We trust the Universe to bring it to pass for our highest good.

We are at a new place in our life-path.

We are free to include only what uplifts us.

We can start each new day with joyful expectation.

We surround ourselves with joy, little by little.

We learn to trust our joy.

We know how to seek out joy and how to receive joy.

We can practice every day.

We place ourselves in joy every time we choose a joyous direction for ourselves.

The Universe Who Loves Us wants us to be happy.

That is why we have so many opportunities.

By doing what we love to do, we increase our joy.

By including only people who appreciate, recognize and support us, we increase our joy.

By taking the steps to create connections which make us happy, we can trust ourselves.

We have the power to create joy in everything we do.

© 2025 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Joy #23 Attentive and joyful –

When we attend to the little things, we build a foundation for joy.

We remove chaos from our mind by focusing on this one clear fact, “I love me.”

We remove chaos from our home through detailed and consistent routines.

We give ourselves the self-care we need in order to remain relaxed and peaceful.

We build in the joys of daily life through careful attention to details.

We make room for creativity and imagination when we are attentive during our meditation.

We consistently hear guidance in the little and big events of our lives when we listen within.

We are joyful about what we do in a mindful manner.

We do what we need to at a graceful and unhurried pace.

We take time to consider our next steps.

We observe the efffects of our previous steps.

We make gentle corrections to our course of action.

We treat ourselves with tenderness and understanding. 

We are willing to give ourselves the opportunity for multiple course corrections.

As we observe our path, we can be attentive to repetitious behavior and either endorse or change it.

We jump into new activities with creativity and imagination.

We enjoy our spontaneous explorations.

We love our new experiences exuberantly.

We gather our resources happily and expectantly.

We play.

We live in creative ecstasy.

We pay attention to what we enjoy the most.

We make more of it.

We trust our intuitive life-design.

We endorse ourselves in every aspect.

©  2025 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

 A Year Of Joy #23 – Alertness and joy

When we are alert to what we love to do, we feel joyous.

This feeling prevents us from getting involved with what we do not enjoy.

Even if we are required to do things we do not enjoy for a while, we can lift ourselves into a better quality of life.

Because we can identify what we love to do, we can take the tiny steps to do it.

The tiny steps add up to big steps as we become alert to take them consistently.

We watch for openings to be excellent.

We show up in a timely manner.

We listen for intutive ideas from within.

We find ways to solve problems which are creative and which provide good value.

We are always in tune for good ideas.

We are able to execute them and bring harmony into our teamwork.

We are alert to opportunities to serve.

This gives us more space to be uplifting and joyous.

Our tiny steps can always add joy to our purpose to live well.

We can see it happening over and over again.

It is a wonderful feeling to be alert to joy.

We can include it more and more consistently in everything we do.

Sometimes we have to slow down to make room for joy

We can watch for those opportunities as well.

Little joys are our secret.

We infuse them into the steps we take to become excellent.

We know that we can repeat our joy everytime we master a new step.

It feels good to become masterful in our abilities.

It is a celebration.

We can be alert to the joy which brings us into celebration.

© 2025 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

  A Year Of Joy #22 – Joyous purpose

What is it we love to do?

How does that fulfill us?

How do we find our purpose?

We are guided in our search through listening within.

In the quiet of our deep breath of peace, we find a message, a sense that we should do something.

This first tiny step guides us to our purpose.

By finding the quiet joy of inner listening, we connect to our Source.

We are led to the joy of doing what we love.

What we love always expands.

We give our time to it and it makes us feel good.

We do excellent work when we do what we love.

We practice all our wonderful qualities.

We hone our abilities to fine precision.

People feel our integrity.

People feel uplifted by the quality of our work.

We love fulfilling our purpose of excellence and integrity.

We add to the quality of life for everyone who does business with us.

We provide excellent service.

Our purpose becomes to uplift everyone who comes in contact with us.

We build a sense of trust.

We build continuity.

Our relationship in the community is one of uplifting service.

What a wonderful purpose to fulfill through our daily life.

Connecting ourselves to what we love to do spreads joy.

© 2025 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

 A Year Of Joy #21 – Joyful celebration

We celebrate our awareness as we add to the joy in our day.

Because we are willing to find the joy, we expand it.

Joy is an ever-present quality of life when we look for it from within.

We allow the inner joy to overflow into daily life.

It adds up to a daily celebration.

When we celebrate the little things, we become aware of more and more  joy.

Practicing a routine for home care is a celebration of order.

Practicing a routine for self-care is a celebration for our own dignity and self-respect.

We can celebrate the beginning of each day through quiet meditation.

We bring joy into our life through our quiet awareness.

Each breath of peace creates room for more joy.

We can celebrate as we see our progress and consistency.

Giving ourselves permission to discover what we love to do is a celebration.

Taking the first tiny steps to move in the direction of what we love to do is a celebration.

We can increase the celebration in our lives as we value our intuition and inner guidance.

We can move oursleves in a transforming direction.

Each step is a celebration.

We remove ourselves from chaos and indecision when we truly value who we are.

We open the connection to the Universe Who Loves Us.

As we listen within, we find more and more to celebrate.

We move in the diretion of our guidance more and more consistently.

We value our goodness and excellence and celebrate it.

We value our insight and imagination and honor it with our commitment and devotion to what comes to us through inspiration.

We give ourselves unqualified love.

We celebrate unconditionally and joyfully every day.

© 2025 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

 A Year Of Joy #20 – Joyful generosity

We move ourselves into generosity through joy.

Once we begin to make room for giving, it increases through joy.

I love the feeling of overflowing love and overflowing joy.

It allows me to give generously.

I love supporting everything and everyone I possibly can.

I am content to support in little ways consistently.

That allows my giving nature to expand.

I can back it up with my time and attention and money.

I can allow it to flow through me as ideas which become writing and art.

I can bring joy into my uplifting conversation.

I can be generous with my understanding to others who are in pain.

I can be gentle with my joy.

My joyful generosity can act as a reminder of joy which always comes from within.

There are many things which remind me of joyful generosity.

As gardens fill with flowers, I am reminded of the generous giving found in Nature.

Color, shape, scent, all add to the joy.

Peaceful communication adds to joy.

Harmony as we all travel to work or school adds to joy.

We bring joy with us and we share it generously when we give respect and dignity to everyone.

It is a relief to communicate with the expectation that our needs will be met.

We all love to give the best service possible.

Our joy expands as we give it.

We can be generous with our time and attention and our expert knowledge.

People feel comforted by what they receive with integrity.

Our day fills with joyful generosity through our active intention to uplift ourselves and others.

© 2025 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

 A Year Of Joy #19 – Uplifting joy

Joy is always uplifting.

Our daily practice of joy transforms our life.

It gives us a new way of looking at everything we do.

We fill our hearts with joy and we let it overflow around us.

When we are shocked by a tragedy, we must take the time to regain our peace and our balance.

We listen to our hearts and feel the fulness of our love.

Even in grief, we have the power to remember a moment of joy to uplift ourselves.

Love fulfills our heart and we let it overflow.

We can uplift ourselves through love and we can find our joy once again.

We put on joy from within.

When we focus on love, we find joy.

We turn from elements which depress us and find light and joy from within.

We are that precious.

We live in a joyful and loving Universe.

It has provided an unending spark of light and love and joy which are always within us.

We draw on it to uplift us in our grief or depression.

Soon we find something to add to our spark within and make it brighter.

We turn to this and the spark of light and joy and peace grows.

We are able to uplift ourselves each time.

We gain the comfort of being able to find our peace and our joy.

We live in the promise and fulfillment of this act every time we do it.

We learn to uplift ourselves consistently.

We become transformed by this process.

Joy is there for us; it is possible.

It is our practice of uplifting joy which comes to characterize our life.

© 2025 Kathryn Hardage 

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

 A Year Of Joy #17 – Surrounded by joy

We surround ourselves with joy each day.

We listen within for a message of peace and we let it exapnd all around us.

In the peace we find our joy.

We know that we cannot be disturbed or distracted from our joy within.

What is within always shows up on the outside.

We let it be joy.

We listen for joy in little things and nurture it.

We take the time to notice beauty in flowers.

We relax in the feeling of joy in an orderly house through the routines we have learned to maintain.

We appreciate the smile and hug of a child.

We are willing to listen to other points of view with patience and consideration.

We know that whatever uplifts us is a way to acknowledge joy.

We know that whatever we can share of an uplifting nature increases the joy around us.

It is delightful to discover so many little joys.

The little joys connect from moment to moment and give us a joyful day.

We take each step in joy and find we are walking in joy.

We spread a little joy with each step.

People feel our peace and they feel our joy.

It is something they want to be around.

Joy is a naturally attracting force.

There is room for everyone to be in joy.

It does not take up any space.

It is unlimited once we start the flow.

We can find joy through the way we conduct our lives.

It is a wonderful feeling to see it spill over into the lives of others around us.

It spills into our workplace and it spills into our communities.

It is wonderful to see joy increase.

© 2025 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com