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Gary airborneSome people love their lives and wake up every morning raring to start the day. Others have a lacklustre life with no energy to get up and start living.

Which group do you belong to? I’ve belonged to both at different points of my life, and highly recommend loving your life!

Here are four areas you may want to start thinking about. Once these four ‘legs’ of your life are in place, you can enjoy the stability of a life you love everyday, or at least most days.

Feel free to read the posts below to get you started. Or get free updates by RSS or email to start the journey to a life you love.

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Getting your finances under control

A large part of unhappiness is due to worries about money. When you have to worry about paying the bills, there is little energy left to focus on intangibles like relationships, health, and joy.

The only reason to pay attention to money in the beginning is so that you can get money worries out of the way for good. Here are a few posts to get you started.

Doing work that you enjoy

The happiest people I know are those who enjoy what they do, are good at it, and can make a living from it. Once you find this combination, be thankful that you have a treasure that few people ever discover.

What if you have not found this work? Start with the work you have today and begin to transform this work into something meaningful. Your attitude and results will in turn open doors to better opportunities.

Building your relationships

Most people are happier when they are enveloped in loving relationships with family and friends. Research suggests that those in happy relationships live longer.

Building relationships takes time and effort. I’m still working on my own relationships, and am far from a guru. Here are some thoughts.

Growing as a person

Once your finances, work and relationships are in order and you have a life others envy, you’ll find that something else is still lacking. This is because we are born to grow, and when you stop growing, there is an emptiness inside.

So the path to joyful days never ends, because the joy (along with some angst) is in the growing. That is why I blog. Most of what I write is to help me grow as a person.

If you’d like to join in the journey, get free updates via RSS or email. You can also email me to let me know about yourself and what topics you’d like me to address.

Thank you for visiting today!



  • Comments by Readers

  • nudgeme: Hi Daphne Lovely to see a post on Joyful days in my Google Reader this morning – and such an uplifting one at that! I concur with...
  • vered - blogger for hire: “Which is partly why I’m blogging less now – I have a happy life to keep me occupied!” This is great. You...
  • Tess The Bold Life: I can attest that they all work. I’ve even been quite happy in the middle even though I’m sliding out of that...
  • J.D. Meier: Excellent rundown. I used to think happiness was doing nothing, then I found out it’s actually doing something. It’s got to...
  • Megan "JoyGirl!" Bord: The “work on your terms” is interesting to me, especially your suggestion that it doesn’t mean we...
  • Annaly: The tongue is a had thing to get control of, but I like your concept of good and bad gossip.
  • Hilary: Hi Daphne – the points you describe so well are so true – Believe in Something – the Dale Carnegie quote .. if we occupy ourselves, we live...
  • Lance: Hi Daphne, This is so good to read! And really, reading this I feel a deep sense of happiness both for you, and within you. Daphne, this is...
  • Baker: Wow. I have to mention that these tips here are very powerful. This is excellent. I can definetly see that you really did an amazing job at...
  • Carla: I can definitely relate to having something to look forward to. When you live your live day by day in a tape loop, it can make things pretty...
  • James Gray: To say that there is no such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ just because they seem to require opposites makes no...
  • MJ: Maybe there are individuals who may have gone through an expereince that would follow.. having been able to choose to be in one Parallel...
  • Hulbert: Hi Daphne, gossiping isn’t really that big of a problem for me because I tend to not hang out with people that just gossip all day....
  • Sara: Daphne — It’s been some time since I visited and I’m glad I came by today. I liked all your suggestions about handling...
  • alessandraelle: Thank you for using my photo and for the exact credits! :-) Ciao from Italy.
  • Daniel: Heya Daphne! Great seeing a new post from you in my reader. :) I too wrote about that story (Socrate’s Teaches The Test of 3)...
  • Daphne: Daphne! Hi, it’s the other Daphne! :) I LOVE the Socrates story – I hadn’t heard it before. I now have a sticky note in...
  • Island Girl: Dear Daphne I have recently moved to a very small island where people do nothing but gossip. I came knowing this would be the case but...
  • Hilda: I used to love a good gossip! Not so much anymore though. I love to hear and pass on good news, but I’m not into the nasty stuff now....
  • Evelyn Lim: I enjoyed reading the story about Socrates that you posted. I don’t like to engage in gossips myself. I have few opportunities to...