Heading For Joy – Wanna Come With Me

What if personal development wasn’t about fixing what’s wrong… but about deliberately heading for joy?

In this Five Minute Quickie, I share where we’re heading next on the Personal Development Unplugged journey — and it’s all about creating a life that feels worth living. A life with joy, intention, and chapters you’re proud of.

We explore:

• Why joy might be the most underrated success metric

• The “book inside you” and how you’re already writing it

• A different take on vulnerability (not the over-sharing nonsense)

• Why empathy isn’t quite what people think it is

• A powerful question about suffering… and why you don’t have to do it alone

This episode sets the direction for the deeper dives to come — using mindset, imagination, and inner work to let go of suffering and create more joy, one seed at a time.

If you’re up for less struggle, more meaning, and a lot more joy… come with me.

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FMQ 524 Heading For Joy – Wanna Come With Me

You’re going to come with me? You see, I’m trying to set out a few episodes ahead now.

Give you an idea of where we’re heading. And obviously, personal development is an intention, isn’t it? You have your own intention of where you want to go. But to me, sometimes it’s more about how you want to feel.

And if you think about it, if you’ve got joy in your life, you’re doing pretty well. And you’ll probably be doing things that are really, really good because they’re providing joy in your life. So, think about it.

I want you to think about a few things before we head into the deeper dives. Here’s the things I want you to think about. You see, everyone has a book inside them.

Well, not everyone wants to write a book. Do you want to write a book? Hmm. But in a deeper dive, I want to uncover the book that’s inside you.

Because there is one. You’re living the bloody thing. And with a little bit of hypno, hypnosis, maybe visualisation, a little bit of internal work, we can find out the remaining chapters of your book.

So, you don’t have to write it. But what you have to do is live it and create the chapters of your life to come. So, at the end of the book, you can say, yeah, that’s a life well lived.

I lived it with passion. I lived it with intention. And I’m fucking proud of me.

Yeah, and that’s what I want for you. So, that’ll be one of the deep dives we’re doing. Then, this is what gets me sometimes.

These thought leaders. These fucking influencers. You know, they spout off about, you have to live a life of vulnerability.

You have to be oh so bloody vulnerable, spilling your guts out, spilling your life out to anybody and everybody, because that’s the only way to live. Is it? Have you ever been with anybody who gives too much, too soon? It’s embarrassing, isn’t it? And it’s not comfortable, is it? It’s not a comfortable place to be. So, where are we going to go? Well, I have a different way of being vulnerable and how to work with vulnerability.

And yes, we’ll dive into it. And of course, I’m going to say it again, probably say it again, with a little bit of hypnosis, with a little bit of visualisation and just diving deep into our unconscious mind. So, that’s another deep dive.

So, what else? You see, I want to talk about empathy, because empathy is a good thing to have. Is it? Well, sort of. It’s a bloody buzzword.

I hear so many people on podcasts go, oh, let’s be empathetic, let’s do this, let’s… It’s all got to be empathy. Empathy, empathy, empathy. And you see, it is important-ish, but not in the way most people think.

And I want you to be empathetic in a different way. And I’m going to deep dive in that too, so you can understand how you can use empathy. And you’ll find that that will also link into that book inside yourself.

And living the chapters and creating the chapters, it will link into being vulnerable. It all goes in. You see, I heard this wonderful, wonderful, bloody statement, and it was an awesome statement.

So awesome, I might even repeat it twice. And there’s a swear word in it. And the statement is this.

What is your capacity for suffering alone here? And why the fuck should you? That was the statement. I’m going to repeat it. What is your capacity for suffering alone here? And why the fuck should you? You see, in this version of personal development, the unplugged version, my version, it’s all about letting go of suffering and finding joy in your life.

And that’s my intention, for me, to find more joy in my life. And as I work through it, I want to share it with you. So you can find the tools that I use, the tools that I have used, the tools I use with my clients, and processes that just create more joy in our life.

Now, if that’s all we do in 2026, I think that might spill into a few more years after that. But if all we do is create joy in our lives, what will it be like? Here’s another question. Because firstly, you won’t be suffering alone unless you suffer joy.

And suffering joy must be a damn good thing to do. But when you have joy in your life, the people around you get to be around you when you’re joyful. And that’s really good for them.

Good for them in so many different ways. They get to feel joy. They get to see someone being joyful.

And they can learn from it. You can be that shining example, shining lights into little cracks into their life to show them where joy can come from. And being joyful, it means we’re going to be good for little old planet Earth.

And you get those three together, we are totally ecological. That’s right. So imagine if you could, just for a moment, before I go, what does joy feel like? If everything was to disappear from your life, every negative emotion, every limiting belief, was disappeared just for a second or two.

Just imagine it now disappearing for a second or two. Right now. What would joy feel like? And what would happen if that feeling of joy was to keep doubling every day, every week? You were finding more joy in more things.

And it doesn’t have to be boom joy. It could be that little seed of joy. There you go.

And you have that little, little seed of joy just bursting through. That would be a good life to have, I think, wouldn’t it? So that’s where we’re heading. Well, that’s where I’m going.

You want to come with me? Cool. If you don’t, well, at least I’ve given you the heads up and you’re not going to waste your time with me. But if that’s where you want to go, come along.

Subscribe so you don’t miss any of them because one of those might be the one thing, the one thing that makes a difference, the difference that makes a difference. Subscribe. Share this with other people.

You know I say that every time. That’s the only payment is to pay it forward because it’s no point in just having joy in your life. I like being around people who have joy in their life too.

Let’s share all this with everybody and have fun. So come with me every week. We’ll sow the seeds and then we’ll do the deep dives.

Have more joy than you can stand every day. Till the next time my friend. Boom! We go deep diving.

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