Joy Is the Only Strategy

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Can you remember times when you’ve experienced pure joy? Martha recalls some key moments that led her to make joy her strategy for living, and she’s talking about it in this episode of The Gathering Room. The dictionary defines a strategy as “a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim." We all want to experience joy, and yet we have a society that tells us joy is not a strategy—that we should be strategizing to achieve success instead. But until you have joy, Martha argues, what good is a strategy of success? There is no point in having success without joy. So, how do you make joy your strategy? All the way to joy feels joyful, Martha says, and that feeling is letting you know you’re on your right path— because joy is what we all are in our essence. When we feel misery or flatness or bitterness, the message is that we’ve gotten off track and need to change course. Martha urges us to turn toward joy and join with other people by sharing our joy and asking what we can do to help others experience more of it. Because as joy grows, it more than multiplies! To find out how to connect with joy even in times of pain or sorrow, learn the difference between happiness and joy, and join Martha in a meditation to help open yourself up to joy, be sure to listen to the entire joy-filled episode.

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0:00.0	Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called
0:08.0	Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?
0:14.7	Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke
0:22.0	them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to
0:28.3	marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.
0:49.7	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:50.9	I'm Martha Beck.
0:57.3	I'm going to start now with our topic du jour. It's so good to see you. And, you know, I wore a Kamala shirt last time, last week. This is being filmed during the campaign
1:06.6	for the presidency. And I thought to myself, I don't want to be one of the political, you know,
1:12.6	people out there just arguing with each other and hating each other. I don't feel that way.
1:17.4	But on the other hand, I really want to commit myself to equality, love, peace among all people,
1:27.1	and anti-racism and everything. And I thought, well,
1:29.9	what kind of an ally would I be if I won't even wear a damn shirt and risk getting myself
1:34.5	in trouble from political adversaries? So if you don't agree with my shirts, that's okay. I love you
1:40.5	anyway. And I want to talk a little bit about why I'm wearing the shirt, because I
1:47.1	wouldn't do it just because, for principle's sake, if I didn't really, really feel something
1:53.8	authentic in myself. And what I feel that's authentic in myself is that this is the first time in my long life
2:03.6	that I've ever heard a political campaign where people got up and talked about joy,
2:10.3	like over and over and over.
2:13.0	And if you watch the Democratic National Convention, did I watch it?
2:17.3	Yes. How bizarre. i hate politics i've
2:20.1	never i grew up with with a fervent democrat soul in provo utah in the 60s it was i got beaten up
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