It's all about Joy - with The Joy Expert, Margaret Neville

Are you as Joy-filled as you would like?
Is there room in your busy life for more Joy?
Are you someone who wants more out of life?
Someone who wants to know how to live the best life they can?
Someone who sees that they are on a journey?
Someone who wants to experience the journey with a greater sense of awareness and aliveness and have more Joy?

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If you can relate to any of the above questions, you are at the right place. What's in it for you?

Simple, moment to moment ways to uplift you quickly. What you focus on expands...we will spend time on what you focus on and how it impacts your level of joy.

This site is dedicated to your journey. The focus is on Joy because it is an inner state of being as opposed to seeking external possessions. I am not going to give you 7 steps for becoming wealthy, for example -although you can achieve wealth. Living from Joy is simpler, gentler, kinder to your being. It is a state of being you want to dwell all the time.

Living with awareness of Joy will make the challenging times easier to deal with...make the pain shorter lived.

My focus for It's all about Joy is to increase your day-to-day awareness, to value each present moment, and live each moment to the best you can.

The goal is to help you become aware that Joy surrounds you all the time and you can simply make it a part of your daily life. Joy is truly only a moment away. To get you started...read the short article below (confirmed as accurate from Snopes).

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How Aware are you?

Washington, D.C. Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007 the man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.

4 minutes later:

The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

6 minutes later:

A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

10 minutes later:

A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.

45 minutes later:

The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money, but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

1 hour later:

He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

Findings:

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the Metro Station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and people's priorities. The questions raised: In a common place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made...How many other things are we missing?

It's all about Joy is here to create ways help us experience the beauty that is around us at all times. Don't let life pass by because you are too busy. Awareness can easily be cultivated. I hope you visit often!

Margaret's vision is to see persons individually and collectively living lives of joy. Be the you that your soul intended. Click on the link below to be uplifted!

Notice, stop, smell and touch along the way...

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