A joy menu is a written list of everything that brings you joy, big and small, that you return to daily or weekly by asking one question: what would light me up right now? In this minisode of The Sheila Botelho Show, I share how founders and leaders can use a joy menu to weave joy through ordinary workdays so it becomes part of how they grow.

I was a guest on a podcast recently and was asked for one simple practice to make room for yourself when your responsibilities feel endless. My answer was the practice I come back to again and again in my own life.

When you’re building something meaningful, joy tends to get scheduled for later. The weekend. The end of the quarter. The vacation that keeps moving down the calendar.

The joy menu brings it into today.

Through my Self Care for Business philosophy and the Seasons Success Method, joy is part of the strategy. It restores your energy, clears your thinking, and steadies the place your decisions come from. That steadiness shapes the impact you make, the wealth you build and how clean it feels in your body, and the pace of expansion you can sustain for years.

Keep the menu close, and order from it often.

In This Episode:

• The question about presence, pleasure, and play that sparked this minisode
• What belongs on a joy menu, and why the small things count
• The one question to ask yourself daily or weekly
• Weaving joy through an ordinary workday
• How joy shapes your energy, clarity, and decisions in business
• One aligned action to take this week

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