Discover a menu of ten behaviors you can add to your way of living and
thinking to enhance every day's journey through the unpredictable
terrain of your existence.
Add these behaviors gradually and watch your life become steadily more
vivid and satisfying. Or you can go on a "crash Joy Diet" to help you
navigate life's emergencies. The ten menu items are:
- Nothing: Do nothing for fifteen minutes a day. Stop mindlessly
chasing goals and figure out which goals are worth going after.
- Truth: Create a moment of truth to help you unmask what you're
hiding--from others and from yourself.
- Desire: Identify, articulate, and explore at least one of your
heart's desires--and learn how to let yourself want what you want.
- Creativity: Learn six new ways to develop at least one new idea to
help you obtain your heart's desire.
- Risk: Take one baby step toward reaching your goal. The only rule is
it has to scare the pants off you.
- Treats: Give yourself a treat for every risk you take and two treats
just because you're you. No exceptions. No excuses.
- Play: Take a moment to remember your real life's work and
differentiate it from the games you play to achieve it. Then play
wholeheartedly.
- Laughter: Laugh at least thirty times a day. Props encouraged.
- Connection: Use your Joy Diet skills to interact with someone who
matters to you.
- Feasting: Enjoy at least three square feasts a day, with or without
food.
No matter what your long-term goals are, The Joy Diet, written with
Martha Beck's inimitable blend of wisdom, practical guidance, and humor,
will help you achieve the immediate gift of joyful living in the here
and now. Begin your journey today.
