The Joy Diet – Week One
Posted by Kaileen Elise on September 18th, 2009
The aim of life is to live,
and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely, aware.
(Henry Miller)
Today marks the beginning of The Next Chapter: The Joy Diet. I am excited to join this online book club of courageous, artistic and thoughtful bloggers. It may be obvious since this blog is still a baby, but this is my first undertaking of the sort.
Over the summer, I admired my friends in the Wreck This Journal group from afar – partly because I was blogless, but mostly because the idea of destroying my neat and tidy journal did not appeal to me.
I am looking forward to seeking joy while exploring Martha Beck’s concepts. I hope to share my thoughts and learn from the amazing community Jamie Ridler has fostered. As we embark on this journey, I am really looking forward to sharing a new vision card for each week and diving deeper into my relationship with joy.
I am a very upbeat, positive and fun person overall. Of course I have moments of dramatic despair, but I recover quickly. My goal is to seek a more stable and blissful internal temperature – a constant state of the childlike joy that lives within all of us.
I cannot wait to jump into the first menu item: Nothing. More updates next Friday! It’s never too late to join in on the fun, click here to get started.
photo credit: just.Luc
Exploring joy and ways to encourage it, discover it and revel in it is going to be wonderful. Looking forward to getting to know you as we go through this process together!
I am so excited at how many bloggy friends are joining this endeavor!
i am so happy you are joining in this!! i look forward to seeing your take on the book over the next several weeks. have a great weekend! hugs!!
I didn’t do the first one either, but I am all ready for The Joy Diet!!
Welcome to the group and lovely tribe. Have fun making and sharing your vision cards.
{soul hugs}
Kathryn
I stumbled upon your website via twitter. I am so excited that you are reading the Joy Diet. I am a certified Martha Beck coach, and all of her books are amazing and really open you up to a whole new world. ENJOY!!!!
I am really happy that you are doing The Joy Diet. I love your new blog.
It’s great to meet you, Kaileen! This should be quite the journey, eh? I can’t wait to read how nothing worked for you.
Thanks for your nice comment! Yes I am also looking forward to get to know new people and to share the journey with you! So I wish you a joyful nothing in the next week, see you!
Kaileen,
Martha Beck is one of my author heros. I have “The Joy Diet” and know that you will be inspired.
It was while listening to her “Finding Your Own North Star” that I made the decision to quit my job and go back to school.
To daily joy,
Brenda
Welcome, I look forward to dieting with all the joy dieters.
wow! i am even more excited about the joy diet after reading all your comments. ‘elle asked me earlier today how my nothing is going and i had to admit that i’m a bit scared. it is comforting to know we are in this together. thank you for the support, love, and creativity. i take solace in knowing i’m not venturing into this nothingness alone.
I’m so glad we’re doing a book that invited you in to play! Welcome to the joy journey! And to the blogosphere too!
Looking forward to this JOYful journey!
It’s exciting that with having a new blog, you are staring a new community journey with community intentions. I am happy to travel with you.
Just stopped by to say Hi! I look forward to our new adventure into Joy. Have a great week.
Beautiful Insightful Henry Miller quote. You are off to a great beginning, and I am looking forward to reading more of your blog.
Your Henry Miller quote is so beautiful. I just dropped by to say hi and say I’m so glad we are on this journey together.