222: Lowering the bar to joy

This week Betsy talks about finding joy in the most usual of places. Inspired by Rob Bell, you can find his Introduction to joy here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA7LmEn3xyc Join our Facebook group here: www.Theartoflivingbig.com Transcription: Welcome to The Art of Living big podcast. My name is Betsy Pake, and I’m an author, speaker and a master mindset coach focused on helping you understand and design your life with the power of your subconscious. This podcast is designed to help you think differently about what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. Hi, everybody. Welcome to today’s show. Welcome fellow adventurers. This past week, I Well, I missed last week. So let’s just say this show is going to be a mishmash of lessons and things that I’ve realized over the past couple weeks. So maybe here where I am and you’ve just felt like there’s some things that are really shifting, like deep things big things are shifting and honestly over the last couple months, I’ve felt this Almost pressure, you know, like, things are changing and I don’t totally know what they’re changing into. And things are falling away. You may follow me on Instagram and I’ve talked about how literally like my, my dryer broke my oven broke my neighbor mowed rocks in his yard that kicked up and hit my bathroom window on the third floor because we have a basement so it’s like the third floor and smashed it. Somebody hit my car, my daughter hit a mailbox and like scraped up the whole side of her car, a broken tooth in half. I’m trying to think what else? I mean it was like, everything was falling apart. Right? And I kept thinking like, Oh my gosh, if this is all happening, something really good is happening. Something really good is coming. Because it’s changing everything. Right? Things are shifting and changing. And what all of that means. I probably won’t know, until I can look in hindsight. But I knew that it was shifting. And last week, it was Wednesday, probably. And I felt like I kept saying my husband like, I feel like I’m in the birth canal. Like that’s what it felt like it felt like so much pressure. I felt like things were whirling around me and I felt like I just was so uncomfortable and I didn’t really understand what was happening. The interesting thing is, a few days later, I saw Lee Harris if you follow Lee Harris energy, he does these really great energy updates every month, and his energy update for August that came out on August 1 was About how we are breaking out of the chrysalis, right? We’re becoming the butterflies. And that’s where we are right now energetically, and I laughed because I was like, Oh my god, I so felt that like a few days ago, I kept saying it was the birth canal, like I was just trying to get out. So that was Wednesday. And so I decided I just needed some space. And so I cleared my whole calendar. I had one appointment, I had set up like office hours for my clients, and that felt fun. And so I still wanted to do that. And I just cleared everything else from Thursday, I had a podcast episode scheduled to record all this stuff, and I just called the people and I was like, I can’t do this. I can’t do that. I’ve got to cancel this. And I just wanted time, and I decided that morning, Thursday morning. I’m going to listen to today’s new album, I’m going to bring my dogs for a walk. I’m going to clean out my office like I just felt like I needed this space. To be born, right to like,