Joy

Joy is what we want from life.

Joy is our natural state. It's our birth right. It's what we feel when we're being all we can be. It's our "why."

Joy is our target and our measure. The presence of joy is our primary signal that we're on the right path.

Fortunately, joy is all around us, here and now. We don’t have to wait – we only have to connect.

Choosing Joy at Work

Rather than go directly for joy, we act as though we believe we must suffer to attain it.

So we work for money to buy us time and things to enjoy. We sacrifice our lives hoping for a little joy over the weekend, on vacation, in retirement. As time goes by, we end up working on the weekend, skipping or shortening vacations, postponing retirement. It gets harder to remember why we work.

At work, joy is just good business. Happy people produce more. And since joy is available immediately and in abundance, it doesn’t cost much in terms of time or money.

Through our book “Choosing Joy at Work,” speaking engagements and workshops, and coaching, we help workers and bosses choose joy in ways that enhance their lives AND their work.

Choosing Joy for Your Wedding

Joy can infuse the entire wedding process - from proposal through honeymoon.

Planning your wedding offers a golden opportunity to create lasting joy. Joy in the wedding process sets up joy in marriage.

Weddings change relationships. A joyful wedding opens the door to bringing lasting joy to your most important relationships.

In our Wedding Coaching, we facilitate meaningful conversations with brides and grooms (and their friends and family) about what a joyful wedding means to them, as well as potential blocks to that joy. And we explore ways to handle difficult conversations gracefully - in ways that enhance joy - so they can maintain joy under pressure.

As non-denominational ordained ministers, we help brides and grooms create the ceremony and vows that best speak their love and clarify their intentions for their marriage. As Wedding Celebrants, we perform joyful ceremonies as a couple because we think there’s something special about couples marrying couples.