The Joy Matrix

Do you love the life that you live? Or do you imagine a better life, more ease, more time, energy, less financial strain?

The most common cause of most of our modern-day stress is feeling overwhelmed by the myriad of challenges over which we feel we have little or no control. Or we live a life that societal expectations and opinions predict will lead to “success”

– school complete – box checked, tertiary education – box checked, steady job (if you can secure one) – box checked, married or cohabiting – box checked, 1.5 children and a pet – box checked, buy home and car – boxes checked.

Happy yet? NO – feel free? NO – Love Life? NO. HELP – get me out of here!

I have been through all the stages of the “Recipe for Life” – and many more! It took major trauma and multiple disasters to take a step back and realise that 99% of the people around me felt the same way, regardless of socio-economic status, married or divorced, parents or not.

This is when I started asking myself important questions that I had only applied to businesses that I did change management projects and strategic planning for. I wondered how life could have more meaning and contain more pleasure for me if I reflected on:

1. Identity (Who Am I?)

2. Purpose (Why Am I Here?); and

3. Mission or Vision (Where Am I Going?)

It ok two years after my mom passed away in 2012 to find the right processes to answer these questions with clarity.

The miraculous began to happen – with answers to these questions I was able to make more informed and aligned decisions on how to utilize what I realized were my three interrelated personal resources of time, money, and energy. If you long to live the life that you have always imagined, then invest in Just Owning Yourself (the acronym of JOY). The process is entirely personal and reveals the guru within.

JOY lies in learning skiills and having access to tools that reframe your life focus, help you to “master the moment” and discover self-worth based on your opinions, not the acceptance and feedback of others. I may be the creator of the process I call “The Joy Matrix”, but the blueprint that you create by undertaking this course is what you will follow as your daily roadmap to a future where you live a life that you love and love the life that you live.

It is a simple process, but not easy. The results achieved with many clients, course participants and readers both individuals and as human capital development training in businesses have been remarkable.