Episode
A Real Life Joy First Day
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- Joy First®
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- Jun 24, 2026
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- 1203
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Summary
Today was too hot to work. Schools shut, there were heat warnings and travel bans in London, and my garden office turned into a sauna. So instead of the day I had planned, I let the day become something else, and somewhere between a slow coffee with my father-in-law, a grocery shop where my brain refused to cooperate, a garden picnic, and water fight with the kids, and a barefoot evening watering the plants, I realised the whole day had been one big joy first experiment. This one is recorded late, off the cuff, and a bit un-edited (you get to see exactly how last-minute this show sometimes is). But showing you all of it felt like the honest thing and very in the spirit of what this season is all about: what joy actually looks like in the messy middle. Not the pretty, pre-planned, beautifully spacious version we put on a pedestal. In this episode: Why joy first living is a series of small choices (not one grand cinematic gesture) The "judgey clipboard lady" in your head, and what changes when she takes the day off Why entrepreneurs never seem to get the free passes everyone else does How to keep a commitment without letting time-scarcity turn you into a jerk Integrating joy into the chores and the to-do list, rather than treating it as separate Take the Joy FIrst Audit Substack: https://joyfirstworld.substack.com/t/joy-first-audit If this show gives you something, a review on Apple Podcasts helps more people find it. And come and find me on YouTube, where these episodes go up as videos too: https://www.youtube.com/@JoyFirstWorld/videos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.