The Joyfulicity Blog

When it comes to career growth and success, Feng Shui becomes especially powerful because your workspace is where intention turns into action. Every detail in your environment—where you sit, what you see, how cluttered or open your space feels—sends subtle signals to your mind. These signals can either reinforce clarity, confidence, and momentum, or contribute to distraction, hesitation, and stagnation.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a deeply structured and principle-centered approach to personal and professional effectiveness that has shaped modern thinking about productivity, leadership, and character development for decades. Written by Stephen R. Covey, the book goes far beyond time management or motivational advice, instead offering a complete framework for living and working with integrity, intention, and long-term clarity.

You gotta love a business "strategy" that's mostly just about being a decent human. The Go-Giver is a short, parable-style business fable that challenges conventional ideas about success, achievement, and value. Written by Bob Burg and John David Mann, the book uses a simple narrative structure to deliver a message that feels both philosophical and practical: true success comes from giving more than you receive.

Kitchen Confidential is a raw, energetic, and unapologetically candid memoir that pulls back the curtain on professional kitchens and the chaotic world behind restaurant dining. Written by chef and travel storyteller Anthony Bourdain, the book became famous for its unfiltered look at the culinary industry and its mix of humor, grit, and brutal honesty.

What Color Is Your Parachute? is one of the most enduring and widely respected career-development books, offering practical guidance for job seekers and people in transition. Written by Richard N. Bolles, the book has been updated many times over the years, but its core message remains focused on helping readers discover meaningful work through self-knowledge and intentional job searching.

Money Money Money!! I’ve heard it said that money makes the world go 'round. I’m not entirely sure about that, but it definitely does make our minds run around in circles sometimes doesn’t it? We’d all love to have more of it, but the pursuit of money can be draining, and even damaging to our relationships and health. No amount of money can buy happiness, but it can buy comfort and experiences, and the lack of money can definitely cause stress.

The truest thing I gathered from the book was the reminder that happiness is the ultimate creator of success, rather than the other way around. I loved that in a book about increasing wealth he took the time to speak at length about focusing on creating happiness first and foremost.

It seems like everyone (including yours truly) has a side hustle (or two?) these days, doesn’t it? Multitasking has become the way of the world in an ever increasingly frantic charge to get ahead. Competition is fierce out there, and enough just never seems to equal enough. Is this fast paced, driven lifestyle sustainable? Or even desirable? Jefferson Bethke says no.