Designing a Joyful Life, Day 1: "The Inner Joy Architect: Design Your Non-Negotiable Happiness" meditation series
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
WELCOME TO THIS WEEK'S SERIES:
Are you tired of leaving your happiness to chance, waiting for perfect external conditions before you allow yourself to feel good? This week, we stop waiting and start building, handing you the blueprints to become The Inner Joy Architect and design a sense of fulfillment so foundational, it's absolutely non-negotiable. Join us for seven transformative days as we define joy on your terms, rewire your expectations, and lay the unshakeable foundation for a life rich with personalized, lasting delight.
This is a replay from a popular series that I shared a few years ago.
This is day 1 of a 7-day meditation series, "The Inner Joy Architect: Design Your Non-Negotiable Happiness," episodes 2670-2676.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE: The Happiness Briefing
Maintain a happiness report: write down what makes you happy each day.
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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].
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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].Let go of repetitive negative thoughts.
The beach waves were composed by Mike Koenig.
Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 2670 of your daily guided meditation. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Mary Meckley and I'm honored to introduce you to our brand new series. |
| 0:14.4 | We're launching into this week. |
| 0:17.0 | This week you are going to explore how to be happy. |
| 0:23.4 | This is a series where in each episode you'll be guided using meditation techniques |
| 0:30.3 | to help you feel happier right away. |
| 0:35.0 | And as always, with each series you explore, you will discover insight and research |
| 0:42.3 | to help you become happier. However you're feeling, whatever the day, whatever the time, |
| 0:52.1 | you can do small things to feel happier. |
| 0:57.5 | And these small happiness tweaks you make add up to become a way to live your life to |
| 1:07.7 | feel happier. |
| 1:10.3 | And in this week's series, you have several tools to guide you along the way. |
| 1:16.4 | As in every series, you will discover a journal with a daily reflection question on it. |
| 1:24.7 | And you can use the journal in several ways. |
| 1:31.5 | You can go ahead and open up the journal and you could perhaps have your own journal i know many of you have your own personal hardbound or |
| 1:40.4 | softbound journals you like to write in well well, take a look at the daily reflection question |
| 1:45.9 | and simply write your reflection within your own journal. Now, you also might find that |
| 1:52.4 | you enjoy reflecting on something maybe every morning as you start your day or in the evening as you end your day, but you might |
| 2:03.4 | not enjoy riding and keeping a journal. |
| 2:08.8 | What you can do is simply reflect, read the daily reflection question and reflect on it. |
| 2:15.6 | I like to do this often as I go to sleep at night. This is a beautiful way for you to go a little more deeply into the week's theme of happiness. You will also find that you have a slow down guide. This contains all the meditation techniques you'll be |
| 2:37.8 | guided through this week right there at your fingertips so you don't have to memorize, oh, |
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