Where’s The Joy?

Where’s the joy?

In his retirement statement, French tennis player Gael Monfils said, ‘what you see is joy, pure joy, spilling over’.

Sure, we might think that when your job is to travel the world playing tennis, it is easier to find the joy.

Sure, we might think that joy is a utopian dream when days are spent dealing with toxic cultures, AI workslop, or yet another meeting that could have been an email.

When we pause to reflect, we might ask ourselves: where is the joy?

Joy can be found in many parts of our work and life. It can be found in the big things and the small, or invisible, things. It can be found in the magnificent and the mundane.

Joy might come with the work itself, the environment we are in, the people we are surrounded by. It might appear in feelings of accomplishment, belonging, purpose and provision. It might be discovered when we learn something new, laugh with a colleague, solve a complex problem.

Joy is there.

I’m curious, where’s the joy hiding - or spilling over - for you?

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