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I recently had one of those moments where my heart filled with complete joy.<\/strong><\/p>\n You know those moments \u2026 the ones where you look around, take a deep breath and say to yourself, \u201cMore of this, please.\u201d And it was nothing of significance; just a simple fire roaring in our backyard, filling the air with that campfire smell and providing a little extra warmth as the night grew colder. But in that moment, I wondered to myself why we didn\u2019t do this more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why don\u2019t I do any of the little stuff that brings me such utter joy more?<\/p>\n I\u2019m not talking about those big important things, like vacations or even fancy dinners out (though I do enjoy those quite a bit too).<\/p>\n I\u2019m talking about those tiny little things that take almost no effort to do, yet make a profound impact on how I feel.<\/p>\n Like \u2026<\/p>\n What are we so busy with that we can\u2019t take an extra five minutes out of our day to do something that makes us so happy? Why do we commit ourselves to doing things we really don\u2019t want to do? It\u2019s this thought that has made me create a summer bucket list for myself. It only has one item:<\/p>\n True, authentic joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently had one of those moments where my heart filled with complete joy. You know those moments \u2026 the ones where you look around, take a deep breath and say to yourself, \u201cMore of this, please.\u201d And it was nothing of significance; just a simple fire roaring in our backyard, filling the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,130,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-lifes-beautiful-journey","category-musings"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Asking for my latte to be served in a mug when we stop by the local coffee store<\/h3>\n
Brewing that cup of Sleepy Time tea that always relaxes me before bedtime<\/h3>\n
Having friends over to share a pizza and some laughs<\/h3>\n
Painting my nails that shade of lilac that always makes me smile<\/h3>\n
\nPrioritize joy.<\/strong><\/p>\n