What if Your Life Purpose is Joy?

Joy is the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying. - Dictionary.com

When I was younger, and I was asked what I wanted to do or become, I found it difficult to answer. I felt like I was supposed to say something like journalist, teacher, nurse or therapist, when my prevailing heart wish was just to be happy.

Do you know your heart wish? What if it's your life purpose?
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Life Purpose: Joy, Laughter
​and Happiness

Because true joy lives in moments, it's a lot simpler and easier to find than happiness.
​- The Aesthetics of Joy

From different sources and at different times, the message keeps coming to me that my soul's purpose, my life purpose, my ultimate purpose is joy. And the mentor I admire most, Kerry K., says that as lightworkers, our most important mission right now is to focus on our inner world and stay connected to it.

Well, you'd think that I would be happier about that goal since I spent decades dedicated to happiness. Even when I began to understand that I was a healer, my purpose just broadened to include the happiness of others.

And in 2016 and 2017, before my mother got sick with cancer and then passed away less than six months later, I was winning!

I was sold out to hygge and coziness (anyone remember that?) And my thinking was this: you flood your day with as many hygge moments as you can, and each day, those moments will nullify, or at least offset the challenges you face.

It felt like that was working.

Then my mother died, and my life descended into hell.

And though life is much better now, six years later, I'm not the same person I was then.

The idea of a life built around comfort and joy sounds weird. But I've been getting intuitive guidance that suggests that my life is about to shift into an even better experience, where happiness and joy are more possible than ever.

Coupled with this idea of joy as a purpose, I'm thinking I better get used to the idea?

Unfortunately, though, contrary to my own popular opinion, I don't think I recovered as much as I thought I did from those 5 days without power (and light.) But I am doing what I can to be there for myself - including lots of time with my light box.

And luckily, Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas started last weekend! Christmastime is here!!
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Is Your Life Purpose Joy, too?

What do you think about this idea of having joy as a life purpose? 

I quoted the article from that joy website and in it, she says that because defining our own happiness is complicated, we are more likely to think we should be happy than to know that we are happy. But she goes on to assert that we all can decide whether or not we feel joyful in any given moment and we could probably answer easily if someone asked us this question...

What would bring you joy right now?

So if it is my purpose and yours, life might be as simple as asking ourselves each day, or each week, what would bring us joy, and then arranging our lives to honor that heart wish.
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What's in the Way of Your Joy?

Find out what's killing your joy by taking the quiz at The Aesthetics of Joy.

I took it & my biggest joy-killer was perfectionism (fear of failure). Second was being a taskmaster because secretly, I don't believe I deserve joy.

​If you take it, tell me in a comment what your top two are.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine
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