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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

1412: Sometimes Life Sucks and You Choose Joy Anyway by Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui of A Life In Progress on Happiness

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui of A Life In Progress shares her thoughts on how sometimes life sucks and you choose joy anyway.  Episode 1412: Sometimes Life Sucks and You Choose Joy Anyway by Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui of A Life In Progress on Happiness  Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui's mission as a Joyful Living Educator is to help messy humans like herself quiet the noise of perfectionism, comparison and fear to show up fully to their imperfect and beautiful lives and/or businesses. Her message can be summed up in 3 sentences: You're imperfect; Life is messy; Show up anyway. Krista will help you figure out how. She has a new Seasonal Mindfulness Journal available here: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/52-mondays/  The original post is located here: https://www.alifeinprogress.ca/choose-joy/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:35.9

Sometimes life sucks, and you choose joy, anyway. By Christo O'Reilly,

0:40.4

Davi DeGee of a Life in Progress.ca, and I'm Justin Mollock, your personal narrator,

0:45.0

reading blogs to you mostly sometimes books. Anything that I think will help you live your life

0:49.2

in a more meaningful way. I do want to mention that today's author, it just found out,

0:53.5

was in a bad car accident. She's okay, well enough to continue writing, but it sounds like it was a

0:59.1

pretty close call. She's definitely bruised and dealing with some injuries, so wishing Christo

1:03.5

all the best, you can do the same for her at lifeinprogress.ca. This post might be even more relevant

1:09.8

than originally planned based on the title. But yeah, thankful that she's okay, car accidents are

1:14.6

super scary. For now, let's get right to it as we optimize your life. Sometimes life sucks,

1:24.9

and you choose joy, anyway. By Christo O'Reilly, Davi DeGee of a Life in Progress.ca.

1:31.7

This is real life, yet another sewer backup, another friend in trouble, more financial stressors,

1:38.7

a child going through a difficult time. Something's up in your body, and it hurts, dealing with

1:43.7

disingenuous people. Ugh, sometimes life sucks and you choose joy, anyway. Should we wait until

1:50.4

life is calm and perfectly predictable to live with joy? Do we permit life circumstances to control

1:55.8

our every thought and emotion? Why do other people get to push our buttons and control our moods

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