Tweet
“Enjoy life, this is no dress rehearsal.” -Unkown
Today is Magic Monday!Please add to my list of unmaterialistic joys.
The commenter with the best list wins a Starbucks gift card!
In no particular order:
- Expressed love
- Being creative
- Feeling grateful
- Feeling exhilerated
- Sending and receiving thank you notes
- The smell of the lake, ocean or a pond on a hot summer day
- Catching fish
- A new hiking trail
- “Our song”
- A support group
- A morning run, walk or swim
- Children
- Being passionate
- Expressed emotions
- Intuitive action
- Making a new friend
- Reading your favorite blog
- Being in the zone
- An understanding look
- An unexpected phone call
- A good nights sleep
- A new baby
- Hugs & kisses
- Volunteering
- A great magazine in the waiting room
- A friendly face
- A walk in the rain
- Watching boys play baseball
- Watching girls play make believe
- Compassion
- Happy memories
- An old book
- A favorite realtiy show
- Coming home
- Tasting a new food
- Pets
- An old comfortable sweater
- Feeling safe
- A clean house
- Bird watching
- Gardening
- Being in nature
- Meditation
- The library
- Unexpected phone call, visits and texts
- Grandchildren
- A day at the beach
- An inside picnic
- A clean desk
- Friendly neighbors
- A good poem
- A new song
- Making others laugh or smile
- Being yourself
- A quiet mind
- Visiting elderly parents
- Freedom
- Expressed thoughtfulness
- Appreciation
- A clean car
- A day off
- Donating to a good cause
- Duct tape
- A light bulb moment
- A little help from my friends
- A gift card
- Learning something new
- Self acceptance
- A vision board
- Taking small steps forward
- Sea shells
- The ocean
- Dreams pursued
- Biking in new places
- Parties
- Sunrise
- Sunset
- A crossed off to do list
- A concert in the park
- Fireworks
- Going green
- Patience
- Cutting loose
- A favorite chair
- Worn out running shoes
- Sticky notes
- A pillow
- A bed
- Self love
- Self acceptance
- Practicing non-judgement
- Alone time
- Singing along to your favorite music
- Watching a road race
- The smell of squeaky clean kids
- Watching sports on a big screen TV
- 4th of July parades
- Making love
- Smells at the farmer’s market
- A bird’s new nest in spring
Please add to my list! Best one wins a Starbucks gift card!
Please join The Bold Life for free and receive my free ebook, How to Be Bold. Please share this post with a Tweet and a Like.
TAKE YOUR FEAR AND SHOVE IT!
This course will show you how to face and erase fear in any difficult situation you face.
Go beyond doubt, excuses and worries Positively anticpate your future Find meaning, happiness and success
Click here to learn more!
This course will show you how to face and erase fear in any difficult situation you face.
Go beyond doubt, excuses and worries Positively anticpate your future Find meaning, happiness and success
Click here to learn more!
FREE Guide
How to Be Bold
Get Over Your Fear and
On With Your Life!
How to Be Bold
Get Over Your Fear and
On With Your Life!
Related Posts
- The Bold Life: 50 Shots of Happiness
- The Bold Life: Loving Choices Change Lives
- The Bold Life and the Joy Thing! Keep It Going…
- Magical Mondays Make Them 1/7 Of Your Life
- Big & Bold Mondays = 1/7 of Your Life
{ 38 comments… read them below or add one }
A great reminder about life’s pleasures and gifts that I often forget as I going about my daily ‘to do’ list. I might add: the smell of brewing my morning coffee, feeling my aching muscles after a fabulous workout, the thrill of crossing a finish line, a smile from a child, a back rub from my grandma, the birds chirping outside my window in the morning…..and of course, connecting via friends/family on Facebook!!
What a wonderful list! One of my favorite things is seeing my dog’s tail wagging when we’re playing. It’s so great to know she is so happy, and I cherish seeing that happiness reflected in her body language.
Positively Present’s last blog post..words are my happy sounds
Love the list, and can relate to a lot of Kristy’s too! Planting flowers after a long winter and watching their beauty come alive, planting veggies and being able to go out to pick them for dinner! The sounds of summer with the windows open! Sheets dried outside, bringing them in and having the fresh smell liven the whole room! The beauty of a fresh snow in the moonlight, it just sparkles! ohhhh, the luxuries of life!
Hi Tess,
What a great list to read through…reminds me that there are so many ways for us to experience joy – if we allow it.
My additions:
Building a snowman
Laying in the grass on a spring day, soaking up the sun
Climbing a tree
Playing tag with my kids
Sitting around a campfire on a cool evening
Lance’s last blog post..Sunday Thought For The Day
Awesome lists and the add ons above this too! Some more of mine would be
-hearing my kids enjoying the summer days (pool, running, tag, biking)
-watching them play sports especially hockey
-sipping a coffee on my deck in the spring mornings or fall mornings and summer!!!
-sitting on the deck on a summer night just star gazing
-crocs (shoes)
-barefoot walking in the sand
-picnics
-snow showing through fresh snow
-supper with friends
-hot chocolate
-campfires
-reading before bed
-scrapbooking (anytime lol)
-sorting through photos (makes me really happy)
-hot tubs on a nice night
-glass of wine
those are all things that make me go… I love life
jenn’s last blog post..We made it…
Great list! I would add:
-walking barefoot and feeling the earth
-looking in the mirror and refraining from criticism
-listening to the purr of a cat
-singing into hairbrushes
-seeing a butterfly flutter by
-the sound of windchimes
Hi Tess ,
The list is a something I need to print and read over and over ! So many Fantastic reasons to smile !
My Favorites to add :
-My children saying I Love you
-A baby sighing as they sleep
-The wind in my face
-The sound of the waves as they hit the beach
-Watching my big Bulky Husband at the minature table w/ a ladies fancy hat
having a tea party w/ our Grand Friend Daughter !
-Most of all Laughter
Just thinking about all of lifes little Wispers of Happiness will bring a Treasure Hunt of looking for them in the days to come !
Thanks Tess !
Mary Beth
What a list!!
A few additions
-sand squishing through my toes
-my daughter’s smile
-a pat on the back
-a backrub
-a free samples lunch
-the smell of the rain
-the memories evoked from a photo
-free museum days
-looking up at the sun through a palm tree
-reading The Bold Life
Ok, that’s all I can think of for now. Thanks, Tess, making me think.
LisaNewton’s last blog post..Union Station – The Hub of Transport
OK Everyone! I have to address you all at once because I want to say the same thing to all: Your lists rock. Each joy mentioned can be added to my personal list. (I don’t have a dog so not that one)
Reading them is thrilling. I can hear the baby sigh, I can smell the coffee, dried sheets outside, a snowman, the garden, being barefoot. And i think we are only touching the surface.
Let the fun and joy continue…Happy Monday
Tess The Bold Life’s last blog post..100 Unmaterialistic Joys for A Bold Life
A great list of things to do here. I love so many of them…one hundred wonderful ways to live happen and empower our life. Thank you,
I stumbled it so more people can enjoy this.
Thanks for sharing.
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action
Giovanna Garcia’s last blog post..Can you talk a robber out of committing a crime?
12,13,14,22,54,55,91
101 – good Belgium beer or Irish stout.
Alik Levin | PracticeThis.com’s last blog post..Single Step Toward A Journey Of Thousand Blog Posts
Great list Tess. I would add… the sound of snowflakes falling on a crisp, cold and sunny afternoon. Ever listened to that? They are so quiet, but you can actually hear them land
Davina’s last blog post..Heads Up — Beware of Crows!
I love your list, and the lists of those who have already commented! A couple additions (loved the wind chimes and a couple of Kristy’s, too):
1. The smell of spring flowers — especially grape hyacinths and certain tulips
2. Walking outside into the sun the day after an ice storm and seeing the world encased in melting, sparkly “glass”
3. Getting or giving back scratches
4. Hearing a cat or kitten purr
5. Dreaming of people you love, and feeling as if you were truly with them
6. (Wow… I just read Davina’s and now I’m almost wishing for winter again!)
7. The smell of cookies baking
8. The smell of my boyfriend’s skin
9. Receiving unexpected money in the mail
10. Meeting new & wonderful people via the blogosphere (like you!)
Have a beautiful day!
Megan “JoyGirl!” Bord’s last blog post..Those Who Remind Us
Hi Tess .. great list – I’ll be back with some ideas. Love everyone’s comments too ..
thanks – you must have had a good break to compile the list!!
here’s to your coloured chairs ..
Hilary Melton-Butcher
Positive Letters
Hilary’s last blog post..Trooping the Colour
–Giving a loved one an unexpected gift
–Finding hidden treasures at the library
–Taking photographs
–Coffee
1. meeting your favorite rockstar
2.dancing
3.sex
4 invisible understanding b/w 2 people
Gio,
It is so much joy just to read them another word for this list is of course appreciation and gratitude. Each one is a wonderful thing to be grateful for.
Alik,
On a hot summer day!
Davina,
Yes I think you can hear heaven as well on that perfect day.
Joy Girl,
I think we have a lot in common. Thanks for stopping by. I’m glad we finally met as well.
Hillary,
As soon as I got going it was difficult to stop. I forgot to add my happy chairs.
Meredith,
I love them all!
gigigurl,
Wow no. 4 is pretty powerful!
Tess The Bold Life’s last blog post..100 Unmaterialistic Joys for A Bold Life
Tess, this article goes hand in hand with my posting this morning on “Taking Time to Smell the Roses” – wow, what synchronicity!
Here’s some to add:
write a song
if you aren’t musical try a poem or story
share a meal with
smile at a child
capture a memory with a photo
tend to your garden
take a walk – and yes, smell the roses along the way
say hi to complete strangers
engage in the things you are passionate about
You want more….I got hundreds. The simplicity of life is what is beautiful about it. Will send this out to the twitterverse.
simply stephen’s last blog post..Take Time To Smell The Roses
Hi Tess – When we think about it, there are many things that bring us joy that we don’t have to pay for. It’s almost surprising. My additions:
Feeling the sun on your skin
Laughing with friends
Going barefoot
Getting into bed at night
Running into an old friend (that you want to see!)
Amanda Linehan’s last blog post..The Quick Guide To Meditation
There are so many simple pleasures to be had, this is a great list. I love to stroll along with my 2 year old daughter, at her pace, stopping and starting to look at things, picking up a rock or a flower or two. Being quite the young independent, when she holds my hand as we walk, is a very special treat for me. I also like sitting in a cafe or cake shop with her, having a coffee and watching her enjoy a nice treat to eat.
Rowe’s last blog post..Change The World
evening bird song
little salmon fry practicing jumping out of the water
a dog’s smile on your walk
the smell of a baby’s head
appreciation
lovely post Thank you
Patricia’s last blog post..What is Marriage?
Gosh Tess,
There are so many great points here I’m getting giddy just reading your original 100 plus those in all the comments. If I did just one a day, it would take me half a year to perform all these actions!
Daphne @ Joyful Days’s last blog post..Feng Shui Bonus: Enhance Your Love Life
Its great to come accross your blog and for me it would have to be waking upto hear the waves hitting the shore!
Ashok’s last blog post..Heartbreak chronicles
Thank you, Tess. This is a phenomenal post – the list plus all the wonderful comments you’ve inspired. I’m still feeling really ill after a weekend in bed (and a day overdoing it yesterday
and just reading these has lifted my spirits. I can’t think clearly enough to add many – it would fry my brain – but waking up feeling full of wellbeing after a good night’s sleep would have to be at the top of any of my lists right now. Although I try to be present and grateful for what I have, here’s what I’d love to be doing right now, instead of swigging soluble aspirin and typing in my dressing gown:
Watching my kids sleeping safe and sound, happily exhausted after a whole day at the beach, my husband reading on a balcony overlooking the ocean, then smiling as he fills me a glass of red wine; we sit, breathing in the fragrance of sea breeze and and night scented jasmine, listening to the waves breaking on the shore, the ocean’s sleep breathing.
janice’s last blog post..Birds, Bees and Blogging
Simply Stephen,
Thanks for spreading the word. You’re correct simplicity gets us every time.
Amanda,
I love getting in bed every nite. How could we leave that out!
Rowe,
2 year olds are filled with wonder and joy. Lucky you.
Patricia,
I got a visual of the salmon fry, how fun!
Daphne,
To think my post can make you feel giddy amazing!
Ashok,
So many things about nature get us all going!
Janice,
I’m hoping your feeling better today! I love the scene you painted.
Tess The Bold Life’s last blog post..100 Unmaterialistic Joys for A Bold Life
Wow, Tess, this is an amazing list!!! Between yours and everyone else’s there’s hardly anything listed that I wasn’t nodding along to.
I would also add waking up early, not needing to get up yet and rolling over to get more zeds, and hugs from my cat (she comes up behind me, puts her paws around my neck and nuzzles my head – it’s unbelievably amazing!)
Hilda’s last blog post..The A – Z of Happiness: C is for . . .
-full, divine conscious awareness
-service to others in the highest good
-insight into unseen worlds
-the impulse to help people anonymously
-timeless inner knowing
-dream messengers
-uncondtional love & self-acceptance
Liara Covert’s last blog post..Facilitate a dying wish
Great list.
I want to add three, although i’m sure I have another hundred:
- the smell of freshly cut grass
- the uninhibited laughter of children playing, especially outside in the summer
- knowing my kids are making their own way in the world and that I brought them up right
Excellent list and tips Tess!
The big joy for a bold life for me is – consciousness! It makes all other things no matter how big or small purely blissful!
Evita’s last blog post..The End Is Near – But The End Is Just A Beginning
Participate, not anticpate. I learned this through a Spiritual Retreat called TEC, Together Encountering Christ.
It is so true in all aspects of life. If you do things, like those listed above, you aren’t anticipating, so you are present to the moment, the joy. Otherwise, you may miss something very important, like life.
What a fabulous list. Here are some to add.
Time with family
Children laughing
playing & walking dogs
walk in the garden
a beautiful rose
a clean house
Certainly reminds me of what is beautiful without spending a penny!
Great list and great post.
Thanks!
Here are some to add
Early morning breeze
Favorite toothbrush
comfortable shoes
“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy” -Albert Clarke
Tabulyogang´s last post…My Personality Test – Sensitive Doer
I have enjoyed this list so much I put a link on my blog! I hope you are okay with that?
Universal Truth – Code 2 Live By´s last post…10 billion years of security
I would have to add
seeing the joy and understanding when a student understands something about themselves
discussing social justice issues in an open setting
volunteering my time with kids
writing a mom an email about her son and how awesome he is
Looking at my alarm and realizing there is still an hour left to sleep
dancing with my roommates in the comfort of our apartment
making a “gourmet” dinner…as far as gourmet and college go
making connections worldwide
whip cream on coffee
writing down my crazy ideas in a dream journal
LIFE IN GENERAL! Love this blog and list of things. It really makes me realize the small things to keep in mind. I wish more people would sit down and realize all there is in this life.
Love and more love… -E
Act goofy and encourage a giggle out of a grandchild.
I love the list and all the adds! One of my personal favorites is open, unguarded access to the Inner Being/True Self of another.
Hugging my dog…He’s my best friend.
{ 1 trackback }