The Joy in Business

Successfully cope with day-to-day problems—and find joy along the way

The Business of Joy provides you with an abundance of practical and immediately applicable life-changing ideas and inspirational, thought-provoking, and entertaining stories and quotes—in an instant. Each chapter is designed to be read and absorbed in approximately 60 seconds, offering you “Golden Nuggets” and “Joy Gems” that will help make positive, lasting change.

Inside, you get an abundance of time-tested formulas that can instantly be used to solve common and uncommon day-to-day issues. This, in and of itself, will help to better yourself today, with work and life moving at the lightning speed of thought.

• Find unique coping mechanisms when facing adversity
• Benefit from tangible, motivational, and self-management tools to forge ahead
• Keep perspective regardless of circumstance
• Build a sturdy foundation for positive culture and change

With the simple information in The Business of Joy, you’ll find all the guidance you need to find positivity in your daily life.

Don’t Read This Book

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Foreword

Preface

Gratitude

Part 1

1. The Purple Break

2. AFA – All the Way!

Always Flexible and Adaptable

3. Salt the Hay – Find a Way

4. Say Good-Bye to Your WAFs

Worry, Anxiety and Fear

5. Prevent, Acknowledge and Release (PAR)

6. Now is Perfect

The Critical Time is NOW!

7. 4–4–6 Breathing

8. The Ogive Curve

Managing the Ups and Downs of Your Day

9. The House of MAD, GLAD, SAD and SCARED

10. Pay Your R.E.N.T Every Day

Rest, Exercise, Nutrition and Thoughts

11. More on Flooding

12. R.E.N.T Assessment

13. What’s the “One Thing”?

Part 2

14. The Velvet Hammer

15. Language of the Lands

16. Speaking the Language of the Lands

17. Listening = Integrity and The Listening Quiz

18. The Plus, Plus, Dash.

19. The Words Matter Movement

20. The Happiness Alphabet

21. Presentation is EVERYTHING!

22. Because of You

23. Meditation

24. Bankruptcy, Cancer and Heart Attack

25. Bee Stinger Out

26. What’s Your ‘One Thing?’

Part 3

27. Abduction

28. Lost and Lonely

29. Confusion is the Step Before Clarity During Change

30. America’s Got Talent

31. Crazy Calls—The White House Story (Part 1)

32. Follow the Hunch – See Where it Leads

33. Carpe Diem! Seize the Day by Seizing Opportunity

34. The 25 Best Sales Interview Questions and Answers

35. Interviewing Essentials

36. The Critical Time is NOW! (But First Coffee)

37. Clutter Free!

38. What’s Your “One Thing”?

Part 4

39. Take Action! Embody the CCC Corporate Culture Code

40. The White House Story (Part 2)

41. It Will Never Be Yesterday

42. Persistence of Perception

43. The 3 Magic Secrets to Living a Happy Life

44. What’s Your “One Thing”?

Final thoughts and Parting gifts!

The Joy Glossary

Index

JOY BALDRIDGE has over two decades of experience working with the world's top leaders and organizations to help them increase productivity and decrease stress. By delivering over 1,500 presentations, Joy has become known for providing relevant and relatable solutions that can be instantly applied to create a highly positive corporate culture and work environment.

THE JOY IN BUSINESS provides a quick-and-easy way to infuse positivity and profitability into your work life. Each of the 45 bite-sized chapters is designed to be read and absorbed in a few minutes or less. Joy Baldridge delivers instantly actionable Golden Nuggets that provide innovative ways to bring more joy to your work day, every day!

Written for solo-entrepreneurs to top corporate executives, and absolutely everyone in between, this book provides you with a treasure trove of humor, insight, inspiration, and practical solutions for the multitude of challenges in business.

Each brief chapter begins with a question to help guide readers to the "Joy Gems" of wisdom that will be most useful for them, such as: How to be more flexible and adaptable regardless of circumstances. How to enjoy your work and life more. How to break your comfort zone.

Have you ever thought of reaching out to someone like Oprah or Bill Gates, but talked yourself out of it because it was crazy? The Joy in Business gives you the tangible tools to go beyond the norm through funny anecdotes, sage advice, and thought-provoking quotations that open your eyes to new, more positive ways of dealing with these questions.

Each chapter ends with a concrete, practical activity that can help you take action to resolve the unpredictable challenges of work and life. The abundance of fresh ideas in this book will invigorate and inspire, providing ways out of dark thinking and stagnant habits into a more optimistic and successful way of living.

This book is designed for you to read it from cover-to-cover or to flip through it to pick and choose the sections and ideas that feel most essential to you at this time. Either way, The Joy in Business promises a more flexible and adaptable outlook that leads to a more positive way of life. It provides a paradigm shift toward better business, highly engaged employees, and a new, lasting culture of positivity and prosperity.

PRAISE FOR THE JOY IN BUSINESS

"Joy Baldridge has an infectious enthusiasm blended with a wealth of business experience, and she has delightfully brought the two together in The Joy in Business. Some of her wisdom pearls were acquired early in life from her successful businessman-continuous-learner dad, and the rest from a lifetime of observing the human condition in corporate America and beyond. And so, whether it's learning about the 'purple break'— as a means of reenergizing body and soul, or 'salting the hay,'—a metaphor for creative adaptation—you will find The Joy in Business a delightful guide to a better, happier and more effective tomorrow."
—CHARLES V. FIRLOTTE, president and CEO of Aquarion Water Company

"We saw a ^$500k ROI in the first two weeks because what Joy teaches actually worked in the field from the very first day. Joy's background as a linguist, combined with her personal success in sales, lend credence to her real world strategies—which were easily adopted by our team."
—ANGELA KREPS, vice president of Strategic Business, Sekisui XenoTech LLC

"If you want great advice that you can actually apply to your own life to make it even better, The Joy in Business is a must-read. I loved reading this book! This is not just an ordinary book that regurgitates what you've heard in the past, this book offers great actionable tips that you can apply immediately to your own life to make it even better! I especially liked the Purple Break. I'm using that! I also really like how the book sounds. The way it's written makes it sound like Joy is talking to me personally."
—NICK 'SUNSHINE' TOKMAN, seen on Deadliest Catch and celebrity keynote speaker

"For me, Joy's delightful book, The Joy in Business, is like a bowl of bites of positivity. Using her 'Flip and Point' method, you don't have to eat the whole bowl at once, just take a bite when you feel the need. The ideas and tips in this book are quick and effective attitude boosters. Joy does it again!"
—JOE CALLOWAY, author of The Leadership Mindset

"I have known Joy for several years. I hired her to coach and train our management team. Joy's advice is spot on. She not only motivated my group but led them down a path we had never been. We like what she did so much we worked with her to develop a whole new management training program completely customized for our group. The results where staggering. She moved the needle. We got our managers to another level. I couldn't have been more pleased. Joy is an outstanding and true person. She comes from a place where other speakers/authors don't and helps all immeasurably with her innovative tools."
—KENT HANLEY, CEO of Coldwell Banker, Howard Perry, and Walston