This time of year is filled with it. Can you feel it all around?
It is palatable in the air… Nope, “it” is not happiness or hopefulness. “It” is not positive attitude or determination.
It is fear. Fear and regret.
Oh it is veiled in the smile and happy announcement of someone’s New Year’s resolutions. Or it is buried beneath the announcement of “2012 will be the best year ever!”
But I can hear it. It is not that I am looking for fear and regret. It is not that I wish it on anyone. Maybe I am like a dog that can hear sounds no one else can hear- but I cannot deny I hear it as the underlying message this time of year especially. Heck, I have done it a time or two myself.
- Belaboring on what did not get done the year before
- Focusing on what you don’t have and how you will get it this year
- Looking around at what everyone else is doing
- Devising the elaborate plan (that you are not even sure you can pull off) to meet that goal- a goal built on fear and regret
I am sure you can see how this just sets you up for feeling like you are already behind the 8-ball and that you better dance faster and faster until you spin out of control…
Okay, wait- maybe I am just talking to myself. Have you already figured this out?
This year, I want things to feel different. Definition of insanity, right? Keep doing the same things over and over expecting different results. Time for Bryn to shake things up.
Time to STOP THE INSANITY!
My New Year really begins this week, not last week with the 1st of the year. Yesterday was my birthday. Today is my company anniversary. Great week for celebration. Great week to leave fear and regret in the dust.
In fact, I will let you in on a little secret…
About 2 weeks ago, I made the decision to CHOOSE JOY. Always. In every scenario.
Joy. Find joy in every encounter. See joy in every interaction. Discover joy in each opportunity.
I have always been a positive person but this shift is about CHOOSING joy. Choosing to see it, find it and create it…rather than falling back into fear. And wow everything has shifted so quickly. I am still building the “choose joy muscle” but for me it is all in taking the action and waiting to see what joy will fill my heart. Could it really be that simple?
Could I really build an entire business starting from JOY?
Could I really have all the things I want in life, love and business by choosing JOY?
Well I really believe that I can…in fact, it is happening right now!
And as a member of my community, you will have a front row seat to the transformation. As with everything else I do, I will be completely transparent with this part of my journey…to inspire, help, encourage and challenge you and others. We are going to have so much fun CHOOSING JOY!
Join me?
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Happy New Year Bryn – Happy Birthday too!
Just read this morning “Joy always has an expansive effect, just as fear has a contracting effect” – and then I opened your email! Love when that happens….!!!
LOVE when that happens… Happy New Year.
yes, I’ll join you Bryn. Thanks for the reminder and such a simple idea … not always easy to embrace. Often I find myself doing behaviors or believing things on auto-pilot. It seems time to choose joy instead. Thank you!
Joan- Magic will happen.
Thank you Bryn. I will indeed join you, and Choose JOY.
Happy Birthday and anniversary as well!!