My PERCEPTION allowed me to see that as a miracle.

It’s amazing how the littlest things can bring you so much joy.

If you were with me, in person, at this moment, you’d be experiencing me singing those words with a big smile on my face.

What brings you JOY?

I woke up asking myself that question. I didn’t wake up in a bad mood, I woke up feeling pretty neutral. And I wanted to feel GOOD, like really joyful. Because I have that choice. 

And while I sat in the sun for a while in silence and then writing my morning pages, I allowed myself to write out exactly how I was feeling and I let bubble up anything that may have been hiding, holding me hostage in neutrality rather than JOY. 

As human beings when we get thrown off track it can be easier to fall into feelings of lesser happiness, and more personal sabotage. 

Many of us weren’t programmed, for lack of better word, to choose joy and happiness over and over and over again, knowing that it can be a constant place for us to live in. 

Of course feeling the hard emotions is very important, but it is not wrong for us to feel JOY, especially when hard things are going on in our world, and the world at large. 

It’s actually really important. 

By raising our vibrational frequency to one of joy, we not only impact our own lives in a beautiful way, we impact the world entirely. 

Our smiles literally save lives.

My HAPPPPPYYY place is coffee shops. Always has been. And then living on the road, coffee shops became not only my happy places but my office (wifi!!), the place I involved myself into new communities, met new people and raised my vibration. Coffee shops gave me a purpose for getting up every morning and starting my day in a way that truly brought me joy. 

Obviously the coffee shop scene has changed a lot over the past year. Most of them have become places to call in an order to-go or walk in and walk out. And don’t get me wrong I have been so so grateful to continue supporting coffee shops all over the country, even without the ability to sit and hang. 

However, I realized this week just HOW IMPORTANT coffee shops are to me, my joy and lifestyle. And when my joy and lifestyle are feeling goooood, I’m always a better ME for all of the world. 

Last week I realized that a coffee shop I hadn’t been into in at least a year or two was open and had seating available inside!!! So I started going there everyday. I immediately felt like I was in a community, the staff remembering my name after day one, I began experiencing different miracles—a stranger left me a gift card behind the counter, I ran into someone I hadn’t seen in a few years, I met some really awesome people from local to other parts of the country. Just like that, I felt community and connection again. Just like that, I was waking up with excitement for this thing that had really been missing in my life. 

You see, when we are in alignment with what is bringing us JOY, we begin witnessing miracles every day. And those miracles are something we have to be open to SEEING, RECEIVING and accepting as miracles.

Miracle example: I walked out of the house the other day and as I was walking to my van I realized I had grabbed the wrong set of keys, AKA I locked myself out of the house. I took a moment to breathe and calmly say “we will figure this out”, just to stick my hand in my pocket and realize MY keys were in my pocket. This was a miracle. I never leave my keys in my pocket. I always put them on the kitchen table with the other keys. But that day, I had miraculously left them in my pocket the night before. 

My PERCEPTION allowed me to see that as a miracle.

That coffee shop I’ve ben going to is closed on Mondays. I honestly haven’t been drinking coffee much but this morning I knew what was going to bring me joy was to hop in my van and go to a different coffee shop, even just the brief interaction with the barista held space for CONNECTION, and for me, joy.

So off I went, and that’s exactly what happened, and so here I am singing around the house “It’s amazing how the littlest things can bring you so much joy!”

We have a choice: to go into the coffee shop in a hurry to get our morning fix and get back to “our day” OR we can go into that coffee shop with excitement and intention to make a connection, to walk in with joy and gratitude and allow that feeling to flow into the rest of EVERYONE’s day. 

Cheers friend. I hope you have the best dang day, filled with so much joy.