Why You Need To Experience Joy Now – Don't Wait Until You Have What You Want
7 Dec 2023 · 16 min
Lori Harder argues that how you experience joy and handle challenges now predicts how you'll do both when successful. Treat present struggles as training, build small daily joyful habits, and practice gratitude instead of waiting for goals to hit before you let yourself be happy.
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Everything right now is being given to you as your school in order to be able to handle all of the things that come with the blessings of the thing that you want. Nothing that you want is not coming with challenge because challenge is the thing that paves your ideal path to everything that you want. Hey everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's time for another quickie because there's always time to fit in inspiration. And this topic that I am going to chat with you about today, if you can grasp this, if I can grasp this, when I grasp this, the times that I have grasped this is, I believe, the key to unlocking our happiness. And before I get into what that topic is, I want to tell you that we actually are running low on glossy because I placed a minimal order for this very first order. And if you don't know what glossy is, glossy is a skin routine you can drink. It is a powdered formulation that you put into your water. It's the thing that I am most excited about in my life right now was launching this company. And all you have to do is go to getgloci.com G E T G L O C I and we placed a minimum order in the beginning because this is our pre sale and we wanted to make sure that everybody in my community got some before we placed our big order. That is going to be our launch sometime in January. But this is a dollar down to get your glossy shipped to you when it launches. So all you have to do right now is put a dollar down and then your card or whatever use is going to be charged once it ships. So it's the only time to get Glossi for $1 down, you guys, right now. And you'll be the first people to get Glossi. And I'm super excited because this is all about having a healthy gut and incredible glowing skin. And it's also just a really easy ritualistic habit where you can take a moment for yourself or a gloment for yourself and remember that you are worthy of being taken. And it's all of these little actions that we do every day that actually tell ourselves, are we worthy of the big things, Right? If you want to be worthy of the big things, you have to be worthy of the little things. And I know that for me, whenever I've spiraled out of control in my life or lost my footing, it's always come down to just start with one thing. Just start with drinking water. Just start with going for that walk. Just start with saying a prayer. Just start with asking for what you need. And I love this because it's one easy habit you can stick to. No pun intended. Pun intended. All you have to do is pour one stick of glossy into your water every single day. And best results are in 60 to 90 days. So, you guys, the topic, let's jump in. Today I was on a walk and I was listening to a lecture from Gabby Bernstein, which I have her app, which I love, you guys, you can go into the App Store and check it out. I believe it's just called Gabby. And I love listening to her lectures. When I first started out in the personal development world, I actually listened to a couple of her lectures, probably over, I'm not even kidding you, over 50 to maybe 100 times. I used to just play them over and over to make sure that I got them because sometimes when things hit you, they just feel like truth. And today the lecture just really spurred on this thought that I was having around. How you do joy now is how you're going to do joy when you're successful. So if you are not enjoying your life now, you actually will not enjoy it once you reach the destination. And you'll eternally be the person who is striving after things or accolades in order to experience joy. And the funniest part of all of it is, is that if and when you can allow yourself to experience joy now in the building, that is actually what attract more of it and attracts that thing into your life that you actually want. And so a lot of people are making it an uphill battle. And I know that I definitely did. So it's the thought of how you do one thing is how you do everything. How you do joy now is how you're going to do joy when you're successful. So if you can't learn to create joyful moments along this journey, you certainly will not create them along the larger journey or along the journey of enjoying what it is that you created. There will always be this emptiness experience of when this happens, when this happens, when this happens. And another thought that popped into my head along this journey was how we don't always get what we want. Right. The song just pops into your head right now. But we don't always get what we want in life. And most often, actually, we're living days where we get a lot of what we don't want. I would say it far outweighs living days where we get what we want, especially in the beginning. So I was thinking about relationships and how when we are in full growth mode or when you're Just in growth mode. And if you're someone who likes to grow, this is growing every single day. As you grow and as you turn into the person that you want to be and as you start doing the things that you want to do, you're going to watch how certain relationships no longer are working. They're no longer an energetic match. You no longer can find the common bond of what you would bond over. Because maybe it was negativity, maybe it was gossip, maybe it was lifestyle and habits that you aren't doing anymore. Maybe it was topics that you just don't want to talk about. Maybe it's fears that you don't want to buy into anymore. So the way that you were bonding before is no longer the way that you'll be able to bond, which means that you don't actually have something in common with these people anymore. And so maybe you're showing up at family events, or maybe you're showing up to friendships where you don't feel connected at all. And it's actually not serving you, it's actually draining you. And unfortunately, as we grow, which I actually think it's a beautiful thing now because I've just been through it for so long, it would have been hard for me to say that while I was in it, but you are going to outgrow relationships or they are going to not end the way that you want. And in this journey of growth, I think that we have a trail of disappointed people. We have a lot of people in our lives who, when we are on this growth trajectory and we're moving into the people that we came here to be, we will feel like we failed in relationships or things will end in a way that we don't want. People will say that we've changed in a bad way. People will say that they are disappointed in us. People will say that we think that we are too good for them now. And it will have to be up to us to decide who we are in those moments where other people are telling us they are disappointed in us, where other people are reflecting back that we aren't there for them in the same way. And the whole journey of growth and the whole journey of becoming who we want to be is being okay and making peace with the fact that that people will not like us. That people will make up a story of how it ended when we know how it actually ended. That people will not be happy with who we are or what we're doing. That people will think that we are selfish. And when you look at someone who has Everything that you think you want. They also have people on their path and on their journey who don't like them, who think they're selfish, and who are disappointed in them. And so this is the whole journey is with or without the people loving you. And with or without the thing. That's also what I want to talk about. With or without the thing being successful, with or without this thing coming into your life, with or without this journey being successful or failing, can you still be happy with yourself and who you are? Can you still know that you are gonna do your best every day? Can you still make joy and find joy on this path? Because how you do joy now is how you will do joy in the future. And all of the things that are on your path now are just going to be amplified in the future. You're going to get the same problems, but bigger in the future. And if you're like, what do you mean they're gonna be bigger? Well, you're going for bigger things. So the amount of things that could go wrong and the level in which things could go wrong are bigger. And if you're like, well, that sounds terrible, it's not going to be terrible because you will have grown. You will have grown to match the size of those things, if not more so. They will seem smaller. But you can't grow to match the size of those things or make them seem smaller if you do not learn how to deal with all of these things in your life's path right now. And every single challenge that is coming your way is a giant blessing and pathway and nugget and breadcrumb in order to become the person that you're here to be. So how you do challenge now is how you're going to do challenge in the future. How you do everything now is how you're gonna do everything in the future. And so everything that's given to you, every single challenge, every relationship that's falling apart, those are being blessed to you. Those are beautiful gifts for you right now to figure out how to get through them and how to grow around them and how to release them and how to forgive these people, how to forgive yourself, how to be grateful for what you do have and not focus on what you don't have. Everything right now is being given to you as your school in order to be able to handle all of the things that come with the blessings of the thing that you want. 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So I hope that you guys take a moment to look around at what's going wrong on your day right now. Maybe you're sitting in traffic, maybe you're annoyed. Every single moment where you could be flipping someone off who cut you off is a moment to let go, is a moment to say, okay, is this something I really need to impact my life or for where I'm going, for how big I want to go? Do I need to start saying this is so small and insignificant on the path of where I want to go that I don't even have the capacity or the energy to give to that thing? You have to realize that it's such small things on the journey of the person who is going to be handling large things. When you have a big life's call and you know that you do not let the small things get to you, of course they're going to still be there.
Of course you're going to have days.
Where sometimes they annoy you, but I let them go. I just have to. I don't have the energy or bandwidth for it because I know what's coming in my afternoon. I have too big of meetings, I have too big of things that I'm thinking about. Like the things that used to be big to me are now small. I look back and I'm like, oh my God. What happened in all of last week was what would have probably overwhelmed me within a six month time period of my life, I wouldn't have even had the capacity for. It doesn't happen overnight. You practice on, on the small things. So thank the small challenges that come in. Thank the big challenges because I also believe that if you're having a lot of big challenges right now, that you.
Have a really big purpose and you're.
Being allowed to practice on them right now. So I hope that you remember to find joy every single day, bring in joy on your walk, go for a.
Walk and get so grateful for the.
Fact that you are on a walk and what you do have and the health that you do have right now and the health that the people have.
Around you, even if it's not a.
Lot, get so grateful for what you do have. Because how you do joy now is how you're gonna do it in the future. And that will become the magnet, you guys. So I'm sending you so much love today. I hope that this just sheds some light on how you can walk through your day every day to create more and become more and more and more and more of a magnet for what you do want. And you guys, I hope that you do go grab the new product because I am obsessed with it. I hope that it helps you take a moment and in your day to feel good about yourself and just to kind of take that moment for yourself that says I am worthy of taking care of myself. I'm going to drink this water, I'm going to layer on these other good habits for the day. Set an intention for your day, set an intention to take care of yourself and the vessel that you walk around in. Because your body is how you experience all of the joy and all of the blessings and you deserve to take care of it. And, and it really is all about just maintaining a healthy gut, getting glowing skin, feeling good, staying hydrated. We know that so many things are linked to hydration focus, not feeling frustrated through the day, creating these super healthy habits. And I'm sending you so much love you guys. So go and grab that@getglosy.com if you've literally gotten anything out of this podcast. I pray that this product also serves you in a big, big way. It is my love life's dream come true to be able to create a community around something. And there's going to be so many awesome things that are coming with this, you guys, including an incredible ambassador and affiliate program that I think you're going to love that come with awesome perks and some really cool in person experiences and rewards which is going to rock. So you have to be a customer though in order to be able to know what is coming down the pipeline for that. So go to GetGlo. We are on a limited supply right now. It most likely will sell out. We're watching the numbers right now. It will sell out before most likely the new year when we order that next supply. So if you want to be on this list, you have to go to getglocee.com now. And I'm sending you guys so much love. And until next time, earn your happy. Bye everyone. It.
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