Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Well, hello there, my friend. How are you today?

I want to remind you of something important today.

Something that the world will tell you isn't important. Something that I'm

guessing isn't on your to-do list. Something that maybe you forgot about.

Years ago, decades ago, even.

And that, my friend, is what brings you joy.

When I was reading the book The Artists Way, late last year, one of the exercises is to spend a moment

listing 20 things you enjoy doing.

20 things, not three things, not four things,

20 things.

Oh my, right?

Maybe for you it's roller skating, maybe it's playing basketball, maybe it's, I don't know, making some very particular type of cake or soup or casserole that your grandmother revealed to you as an amazing family

recipe.

But this exercise is powerful because it's so easy to connect with that part of us.

That part of us that exists to experience joy.

Joy too, my friends, is the key to unlocking so much.

When we're in our joy, we feel creative, we feel connected, we get ideas, we find solutions.

Joy is powerful.

So why not take this exercise today, of all at the start of the year and

think about 20 things that you enjoy doing just for the heck of it, not for an outcome, not for some type of reward, not because it's productive.

I'm going to share with you some of the things that came up on my list as I created this,

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