Let’s talk linkups this week. What makes a good linkup? What are some of the features in other linkups that make you come back week after week?

There are many ways you can utilize the #JoyHopeLive linkup and make it worthwhile for everyone.

1. Tweet out your link with a short description and hashtag #JoyHopeLive. Use tweetdeck.twitter.com to monitor the #JoyHopeLive hashtag and retweet or comment on the tweets whenever it is used.
2. Follow the #JoyHopeLive pinterest board and love, comment, and/or share other pins.
3. Make sure to add your link to the Facebook thread as well as to the linkup. This makes it easier for everyone to share. To make it even easier to share, earn klout, and network with one another add the link to your original Facebook post where you have shared your link. I’ve added one of mine as an example.
4. Visit the other links and comment. #JoyHopeLive {27} featured a great post about how to effectively leave comments.

This Week’s Featured Post

This week’s featured post is An Illness Took Me on an Unexpected Detour, but I embraced it: I #lovemydetour from Amy Oestreicher. We all experience detours in life. Amy turned her’s into a beautiful story of patience and determination. My favorite line from her story is, “But this detour also turned out to be the richest time in my life. To this day, I’m still healing physically and emotionally. Every morning, I make a new attempt to find who I am and to discover who I am becoming.” Be sure to visit her site and share your own detours. Thank you Amy for sharing your heart and your strength. It is truly beautiful.

Here is a recap of my week:

If you don’t want to see this part just scroll on down to the linkup below… but you’re gonna miss out on two giveaways and a new goodreads group. My book Finding Joy was released this week and I’m busy giving away a few copies.

This week’s giveaway ends 10/23

But this goodreads giveaway begins on 10/23/2015 and ends on 11/2/2026

Goodreads Book Giveaway

 

 

Finding Joy

by Hope N Griffin

Giveaway ends November 02, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

Be sure to join the Goodreads Discussion group where a new question from the book will be posted every week.

Hope N. Griffin hosts a Q & A
13 members

I can’t wait to get to know each of you better. Each week I will be posting one of the discussion…

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Now for what you’re really here for!

The #JoyHopeLive Linkup

Co-Hosts for #JoyHopeLive

Hope N. Griffin from Finding Joy in Everyday Be sure to follow me on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram. Look around my blog for book reviews, military life, and more. I will be tweeting out your links over the next week. Be sure to share your link on twitter and hashtag #JoyHopeLive so I can retweet. Follow @HopeNGriffin to find some great posts on #FindingJoy #JoyHopeLive Click To Tweet Mary from My Life in Progress. Be sure to follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Visit her blog as she shares her experiences, thoughts, life & faith with you. She will be visiting your posts and commenting. Follow @MyLifeNProgres1 as she shares her life & faith. Click To Tweet Vanessa from Tapestry Chronicles. Be sure to follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Visit her blog as she shares her life, projects, and faith with you. She will be pinning your links to our pinterest board. Follow @vaking513 for great crafts, home projects, and as she shares her life and faith Click To Tweet There are so many ways we can pursue joy in our lives, but it has to come from the heart. Being momentarily happy and possessing an internal authentic joy in the face of difficult circumstances are two very different things. I believe it is the little moments of happiness that help shape and prepare us for the difficult life circumstances we all face. My question is what do you do in your everyday that brings you happiness and fosters a deep found joy in your life?

By linking up, you agree to the following rules:

1. Add a link that captures how you Find Joy in the Everyday. It can be a craft, book review, personal story, etc. Just make sure it captures joy. Do not link up other link parties or product reviews. 2. Tweet or share on Facebook your link with #JoyHopeLive (this makes it simpler for me to give you a retweet and comment). Each week we add the posts to a pinterest board. Go love and share some pins. I just shared my post on the #JoyHopeLive linkup and so can you! Click To Tweet 3. Comment on the posts you love and the two directly before yours. Be sure to include #JoyHopeLive when you do so they know where you found them. 4. Grab the button! Share it on your sidebar or in your post so others will join us next week.

JoyHopeLiveLinkUp By submitting a link to this party, you are giving the co-hosts permission to feature your post on their blogs and/or social media platforms and utilize your post images in order to facilitate this feature.

Now you can also post your link on the pinned post on Hope’s facebook page for ease in sharing one another’s posts and getting more interaction. For better interaction share the link to your original Facebook share (I’ve left one of mine as an example). When you share a link on your social media be sure to add #JoyHopeLive. Sign up for the weekly newsletter so you will receive a reminder of this linkup every Wednesday morning.