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Narrated by Marie T. Russell.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
January 1, 2024
The focus for today is:
"What will bring me more joy, love, and peace this year?"
Today's inspiration was written by Jude Bijou:
In approaching resolutions, it's beneficial to step back and reflect on what you've learned and accomplished during the previous year. Be sure to keep looking until you come up with something you are proud of.
With that in mind, it's easier to set some goals for the coming year. The idea is to shift your attention away from your shortcomings, bad decisions, and less than stellar behaviors, and just focus on making yourself more to your liking.
Your ambitions don't have to be earthshaking but should reflect how you'd like to grow towards your potential. For me, it's asking myself, "What will bring me more joy, love, and peace this year?" I pose this question because happiness and personal fulfillment revolve around these three emotions: Joy, love, and peace.
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
What Will Bring You More Joy, Love, and Peace This Year?
Written by Jude Bijou.
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of joy, love, and peace (today and every day)
Comment from Marie: As we all know, New Year's resolutions don't come true on their own. We need to place our focus and our energy and our intention on what we truly desire and thus move towards reaching our goals. Material goals are simply a manifestation of what we truly desire: love, peace, and joy.
Our focus for today: "What will bring me more joy, love, and peace this year?"
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RELATED BOOK: Attitude Reconstruction
Attitude Reconstruction: A Blueprint for Building a Better Life
by Jude Bijou, M.A., M.F.T.
With practical tools and real-life examples, this book can help you stop settling for sadness, anger, and fear, and infuse your life with joy, love, and peace. Jude Bijou's comprehensive blueprint will teach you to: ? cope with family members' unsolicited advice, cure indecision with your intuition, deal with fear by expressing it physically, create closeness by truly talking and listening, improve your social life, increase staff morale in just five minutes a day, handle sarcasm by visualizing it flying by, carve out more time for yourself by clarifying your priorities, ask for a raise and get it, stop fighting via two easy steps, cure kids' tantrums constructively. You can integrate Attitude Reconstruction into your daily routine, regardless of your spiritual path, cultural background, age, or education.
For more info and/or to order this book, click here. Also available as a Kindle edition.
About the Author
Jude Bijou is a licensed marriage and family therapist (MFT), an educator in Santa Barbara, California and the author of Attitude Reconstruction: A Blueprint for Building a Better Life.
In 1982, Jude launched a private psychotherapy practice and started working with individuals, couples, and groups. She also began teaching communication courses through Santa Barbara City College Adult Education.
Visit her website at AttitudeReconstruction.com/
