Blogging With Steve, Day 2
“What Brings You Joy?”
December 12, 2025
Today is Day Two of my 90 Day Blogging Challenge. Today’s joy starts out with something that wasn’t so joyful. One night about four months ago my car was stolen from in front of my house. It was a dependable 2015 Prius that got me where I needed to go. During my search for another car, I found many similar cars that had payments within my budget. Low and behold, I visited a dealership and found a 1997 Toyota that was in great shape. I took it on a test drive, looked through a folder that had complete service records, and decided that this car would work for me. I could purchase this 28-year-old car with cash and not be saddled with a monthly payment.
The only concern was that this car may not be capable of making my monthly trip to Southern California, which usually covers about 900 miles, round trip. This week after having the car serviced, I made the trip and the old car was wonderful. In fact, there were times when I caught myself exceeding 80 miles per hour on Highway 5.
Today I’m joyful that I’m not saddled with a car payment and I didn’t get a speeding ticket in my car that hit the market in the last century.
What is bringing you joy?
Blogging With Steve, Day 1
“What Brings You Joy?”
December 11, 2025
What do you do when something mundane turns out to be special. Professionally I’m an account executive, yesterday as I was calling on customers, I distributed my company’s 2026 Calendar. When I presented it to Customer #1, she said thank you and we had a pleasant conversation. When I presented it to Customer #2, he said thank you and we also had a pleasant conversation. The third customer I presented it to said, “Thank you! We’ve been looking forward to getting this!” While also had a pleasant conversation the joy that she brought to me by expressing excitement about getting the calendar gave me a jolt of energy that lasted for the rest of the day.
Today is Day one of my 90 Day Blogging Challenge. Why a blog challenge? About six years ago, I took on a public speaking challenge from presentation coach Darren LaCroix. The challenge was to do go to Facebook or whichever social media site that we choose and do a video every day for 90 days. Now I’ve decided to take the same principle into a bogging challenge.
While some blog entries will be longer than others the key to this project is to find at least one thing, every day that brings me joy. What brings you joy?