We’ve added a new listing in our Joy, Kindness & Love directory for KINDNESS. Welcome Life Vest Inside! And thank you for promoting kindness!  Here’s a video from their website about the power and reach one act of kindness can have. Do you work to bring more joy, kindness or love into the world? Submit a listing here.

Come out for some Joy & Juicy Inspiration this Saturday with Women of Visionary Influence! I’ll be speaking, and so will the fabulous Susan Glavin of Be The Gift. Saturday January 7, 2012 at The Melting Pot (downtown Portland near 5th and Park) 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Come at 11 to meet and greet! $15 for WOVI Members, $25 for […]

My dear friend and fellow spreader of joy Dana Layon-Damara of Zen Flow Yoga and I, along with our kids, went out to pick up 75 smiley face balloons today. Add those to the 20 already in house and there are now 95 big yellow smiles filling my living room (aka: The Joy Team office). These balloons, each accompanied with […]

September 21st was World Gratitude Day.  We took the opportunity to express gratitude for some things on a walk through Portland, Oregon: water at a public drinking fountain books at the public library farmers at a farmers market public art at a mural public transportation at a bus stop Goodwill (and goodwill) at a Goodwill storefront See the photos in […]

Here’s a FUN way to spread joy that the whole family can be part of. All you need is a little sidewalk chalk and about 10 minutes on August 23rd. Chalk the Walks (a project of The Joy Team) is all about spreading joy, optimism and inspiration through the magical power of sidewalk chalk. Remember when you were a kid and […]

A Bay Area group called Oh San Fran is doing some interesting things to spread joy. Their Happiness Project 1.o :Swings is lightening hearts and sprinkling smiles throughout San Francisco by putting up simple, wooden board swings in public places. Brilliant. I happen to be of the mind that anything is possible; however, I do not believe you can swing […]

I just found the invitation to join this FREE call in my inbox tonight.  Looks like these two women, Gabby and Christine, have totally changed their lives to become two of the happiest and free people they know.  And they’re sharing their 3 keys to Having Happiness, Love, Freedom & Success. Hey, sounds good to me.  I signed up.  And I thought […]

If you want to be happy, there are a more than a few things you’ll need to accept, just as they are. The people in our lives are very possibly one of the most challenging things to accept “as is”. “If only he would do this…” “Why can’t she just see it this way?” “I wish he was more like…” […]

Here’s the first of several posts on Do It Yourself (DIY) Joy. One way to be happy is to talk nicely to yourself.  Words have great power. Using positive words when talking about yourself empowers you–words like smart, kind, resourceful, beautiful. On the flip side, when you talk about yourself using words like stupid, worthless, ugly, fat, and incompetent you […]

This fabulous message was put out by The Foundation for a Better Life. I think it speaks for itself.