Joy is a feeling, but the label doesn’t stipulate its source, duration, resilience, or intensity. The source of joy is incremental progress towards worthwhile goals. The amount of joy you encounter in life will be determined by how effectively you pursue the greatest possible improvement, and what you gauge as improvement will depend on many things, including how you see yourself, others, and the world. While the purpose of all people is to obtain greater joy, the details of how they will achieve this are as varied from one person to another as their fingerprints.
Factors that will increase the amount of joy you experience include how effectively you find and pursue what is best, how thoroughly you define and become the ideal person, and how consistently you do all you can toward these ends.
Breaking an overarching purpose down effectively into daily actions is no easy task. This is exactly why the framework described in this book is needed, and the purpose it serves. The purpose of a life plan is so that you make decisions differently on a daily basis. It is a tool that will help you act more effectively in large and small ways to more effectively accomplish your desires.
Though the details between people will differ, all will find that greater joy is found as you intentionally seek it. In this path, you will find more meaning daily as you consistently act in ways that orient you toward the greatest improvement.