Anyone can be happy when circumstances are wonderful, but joy is different. Joy is proactive happiness. It is the learned capacity to display your faith ahead of time by means of your daily mental attitude.
To act with joy now, live each hour as if your full potential has already materialized. Proceed, moment by moment, with the gratitude you’d have if your most heartfelt prayers have been answered.
Stop what you are doing and briefly make a list of five things you would be doing differently today if you had already reached your biggest goals or overcome your greatest challenges.

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