288: Is Joy Enough for You?

Do you find yourself looking for the greater meaning in all experiences? Maybe you want to learn something new but you aren’t sure what the purpose would be. Betsy talks about her recent journey learning about joy. On her journey she experienced that other countries leave room for joy, and they recognize that to have joy is enough. All you need to do is experience it, appreciate it, and keep moving through life with it. >>> Connect with Betsy on IG @betsypake Transcription: Hello and welcome. Welcome to the Art of Living big. Hello fellow adventurers. I am recording, I have to tell you, I’m here in Iceland. And I’m with like my group, you’ve heard me talk about this on the show. And if you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen way too much of my trip in Iceland. But I’ve been here a couple of weeks that we are staying in Airbnb, which feel like, I don’t know, like cabins maybe like, like summer houses, right. I mean, they’re winterized, but the walls feel very thin. So I keep like having these ideas of things to record. And then I’m like, Oh, my gosh, I don’t want to be like, in the room, and everyone can hear everything I say. And this goes out to 1000s of people. So I don’t know why I’m worried about the people in the House hearing me like they could just listen later. So I finally decided I’m just gonna sit, I’m going to sit in the corner, and record the show, because I have things to say. And I have things that I want to share with you. And just ideas that I’ve had that I hope will kind of help you on your journey. So I’ve been here about two weeks, I have a couple more weeks to go here in Iceland. And honestly, it’s been really such an interesting experience, like on multiple levels. First of all, just traveling to a totally different place. And I’m going to do an episode where I break down the places I went and give you my itinerary to download and all that stuff. After I have been through the experience, but I’m noticing, you know, when I when I came here, I had to travel through Heathrow Airport through London, you know, change planes and airlines, and getting here was a long experience. It took me like 30 hours of traveling. And I think in that there was a lot to grow through. Right, I hadn’t traveled by myself in a long time, like other than to the beach, right. And so that whole experience was was like a growth period. And then I got here. And I stayed in Iceland for a couple days by myself and I went to the Blue Lagoon and did those kinds of things. Again, like a growth experience, like I’m in a different country, people speak English, for the most part, but also, you know, a lot of informations and not in English. And not everyone speaks English and not all menus are in English. And so that has been another level of like growth and experience. And then coming together with my group. There’s nine of us here. And that, you know, a group transforms as they spend time together. You know, in the beginning, we were strangers all getting together and having this experience. And then we got to know each other. And, you know, we all, we all go through things when we get in a group, right? We’re, like more guarded. And then we begin to show ourselves who we really are. And then we become comfortable. And then we become friends. And then we become like where you’re joking around and you feel like free to be yourself. And so going through that experience. Honestly, other than my NLP classes. I haven’t been in a group like that in a long time. I haven’t worked in an office in oh my gosh, 10 years, more than that, probably close to 15 years. So there’s been a lot,