http://stacycats.com/blog got joy? Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:23:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m having an urge to move forward with this site. It’s been stagnant for too long, and I still have a strong feeling that it needs to serve its purpose in the world. Ideas brewing…. Meanwhile, have a great day! :) http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=222 Got twenty minutes? How about spending it learning something new and, perhaps, life-changing. TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video) Dr. Taylor - a brain scientist with a PhD - found herself, one morning, having a stroke. When she realized what was happening to her, ... http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=221 Happy New Year!! I love a fresh start. When I signed on this morning, the quote that met me here was this one: Dream as if you’ll live forever; live as if you’ll die today. ... http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=219 It’s one of my favorite holidays! I so Love that there is a day set aside for the sole purpose of gratitude! What a worthy reason for a holiday! So! Here’s an incomplete list of things (iNPO) that I feel pure gratitude about. I’ll be adding to it throughout the ... http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=218 I have come upon a powerful exercise that has only brought me joy (and more!) since I started playing with it. It’s called (by some) a Rampage of Appreciation (RoA). You can choose virtually any subject, person, place, thing, or idea, specific or general, and just go to ... http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=216 I have found a new path. Well, new to me. Sorta. (lol) In fact, it’s a very old and much talked-about path, and the wonderful synchronicity is that it perfectly melds with what I’ve been doing already with the JIP. In fact, my work with ... http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=215 This super simple, slightly pointless, very relaxing, quietly addictive Flash game is really fun. It’s called Boomshine. Once loaded, (it’ll take a few minutes for those of you on slower connections like I am) you’ll see a number of little colored circles floating randomly on the screen. You place ... http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=210 A big THANK YOU to Karoline who has graciously translated Exercises Four and Five of the Joy Immersion Project into German! If German is your first language, the exercises are now posted and ready to read! (You can access all the German translated assignments: here.) Aufgabe #4 Aufgabe #5 Thanks again, Karoline. ... http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=213 As I was lying in bed recovering from surgery a couple of days ago, I noticed that I was feeling more miserable than I had been before. My back hurt from being in bed so long. I was bored. I was judging myself for my lack of ... http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=214 It’s difficult for me to tell what sort of readership I have going on here, but for those of you who visit and are not part of my immediate family or close circle of friends, I would imagine that this site has seemed inexplicably dead recently. For the first ... http://stacycats.com/blog/?p=209