The Incident That Motivated Me to Go Crazy and Give My Book Away
Ed Osworth - The Joy Professor here. I have been swamped with questions about why I decided to give my book away - since it is already in bookstores. Am I crazy?
I will explain exactly the incident that motivated my change from selling my book to gifting my book.
This year I’ve taught many live Unstoppable Joy classes in Eugene Oregon. The experience was fantastic and it gave me a brand-new perspective on my work.
Every week our group would gather and every week the level of Joy would increase.
And every time I gave the classes something would happen that changed me.
I would look out into the group and I would see someone’s eyes light up when they finally realized how important joy is to their life and discovered their power to create it themselves.
There was a certain student, a single mother recently divorced who was so sad during the first few sessions. It was obvious that she felt life was crushing her. With two teenaged children to support and husband gone her life was very challenging. Even affording the gas to get to the class was a major challenge.
About the fourth session I could see that she had a major breakthrough. She had been practicing the joy creation exercises and they took hold of her. In a few short weeks her eyes had gone from sadness and depression to happiness and elation.
She came up to me after that class in tears expressing her gratitude to me. She said that the simple lessons of Unstoppable Joy and turned her everyday existence around.
No, the challenges in her life had not all magically disappeared. But the way she saw her problems and challenges had entirely changed. She now woke up in the morning looking forward to the day, whereas before she dreaded waking up at all.
While I drove home that evening from class I had a major personal awakening.
There is a crisis going on in the world right now. Job loss, retirement accounts devastated, wage cuts, bankruptcies, lack of credit and soaring interest rates.
It is a crisis that for some has made their future look very uncertain. So many things have shifted economically that millions of folks out there feel like they’re at the end of the ropes.
And many of the folks who need the information in “Unstoppable Joy” the most are the ones who can least afford to pay for it.
I realized that I could no longer hold the powerful information contained in my book from those who could not afford it in these challenging times.
The simple lessons are so powerful that I have seen student after student literally improve every single moment of their day by using them.
To me it simply would not be right to limit the spread of that same joyous effect to as many folks as possible by insisting on payment.
So I created a digital copy of Unstoppable Joy in that will be freely distributed to every single person who signs up for my inspirational messages of my free “Joy News Today” newsletter.
Please help me to spread the joy as far as possible. When anyone in your life looks like they could use more happiness, send them to the site
so that they can get their own copy of “Unstoppable Joy.”
Working together we can spread the word far and wide that no matter what the circumstances in your life everyday joy is still an attainable goal.
As a wise man once said “Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional”.
Help me to reduce the suffering part for as many people as we can.
Joy, Peace, Abundance, and Delight
Ed Osworth
The Joy Professor
