SALT WATER

For those who enjoy watching ADHD in real time you can follow the swiggly line of yesterday’s surf session to start 2024- the squiggly line is me! I will be adding some Go Pro’s and Solo Shot gear to my arsenal this yea so stay tuned!

CLEAN WATER

San Clemente , California - 1202 Liters

Palmarcito , El Salvador - 10,000 liters (waiting for project upgrade to San Clemente Beta Test Model)

Kandui Mentawaii Islands , Indonesia - 60,336 liters

My good friends at Exponential uploaded part of my OCNWTR thesis (Saltwater + Clean Water + Living Water) from 2021 if you would like to watch

LIVING WATER “8 REASONS YOU NEED JOY IN YOUR LIFE”

“8 REASONS WHY YOU NEED JOY IN YOUR LIFE GALATIANS 5:22-23”

I want to talk to you today about eight reasons why you need joy in your life. I'm joyful about the waves I've been catching in November. So far I've ridden 79. I'm joyful about helping people. We've helped 6,939 liters of water be produced so far. And I'm thankful that heaven gets to come to earth. We planted 24 churches in five countries helping about 800 people. Now this word joy, it is a word that signifies something that flows from the inside of us to the outside of us. It comes from God. In fact, right now you can say, God, please fill me with your joy. I know I need more of it in Jesus' name. And if you do that, God will take you a little step closer to it. But I want to outline some benefits today as to why you actually need joy in your life to be able to navigate everything that you face on a daily basis. Now the first thing I want to point out is that joy will help you to become more successful. Two of the most successful people that I know are Adam Watts and Kurt Johnston. Both of them have an infectious joy that I wish I had. I really have to work hard. I'm very disciplined and very regimented so that I get to joy some people just have it. Those are people that you're going to want to gravitate towards.

There's actually a correlation between the amount of someone's joy and the network of

people that they have in their life. And Adam Watson, Kurt Johnston are two of the happiest, most joyful networked people that I personally know. The second thing is that joy is going to help you be healthier just in the same way that I outlined yesterday that when you let go of outcomes and expectations, that's really at the center of love, lowers your blood pressure. Joy will do the same thing. Joy will actually improve your health. Joy allows you to operate on the right fuel source and joy is the right fuel source for our life versus anger and anxiety. So we need joy to help us be more healthy. We also need joy to help us be more productive. Now positive thoughts result in positive actions and positive actions in return enhance our productivity. So joy actually helps us to be more productive.

One of the things that will help with your joy is writing down your goals. That's why I write down my scoreboard for my life. I want you to follow me. You should know what

I'm aiming for. So I'm very upfront about it. We put it right there. And the next thing is that you'll be more financially successful. Now if you're going to live in California for, like if you're going to be here in a few years, you're going to need to learn to figure out how to make some money and actually being joyful will open up more opportunity for you because this may come as a shock to you, but it turns out that people like to be around other people that are fun. I know that might come as a shock to some of you, but actually being fun and having a good time in and of itself is an asset class and opens up tremendous opportunity for you versus if you're theologically correct, but you're just like a total bummer to be around. I know a lot of ministers that are right on paper and they're just a total drag to be around. Don't be that guy. Don't be that woman. Be joyful. Be a good time. It'll also help you to be younger looking.

One of the most joyful people that I know is a guy named Nico Otsby, lives up in Malibu. Nico doesn't look a day over 20. I think he's 30. He's one of the most joyful people that I know just based on his prayer that he does. I don't know anybody who prays more. Maybe him and Dustin Nelson, probably two people I know that pray the most, surf a lot, very joyful, very happy people. Should be no shock. Go figure that both of their churches are doing extremely well. Could it have something to do with the fact that they're just joyful and fun to be around? Absolutely. It's going to make you look younger. It's going to help you be more infectious.

It's also going to provide you with more work opportunity.

A happy person is better able to deal with others. The farther you go along in life, you're going to realize that the emotional intelligence that you have in dealing with other people is going to be related to your own personal joy. It's very hard to have high emotional intelligence. If it's not coming from a place of joy, you won't have emotional intelligence. You also lack empathy. Emotional intelligence and empathy rooted in joy is going to open up a lot of opportunity for you in your life. Then it's going to make you more prone to positive feelings. You get joy in your life, you're going to feel better about yourself. You're going to feel better about the future.

Again, I recommend you write your life goals down. Writing brings clarity. Writing eliminates distraction. Writing reminds you what you're able to stay focused on. I really encourage you to write your goals down. Write the things that you're working on. Write them down on paper. It brings clarity about your life. Then you're also going to feel better. You're going to feel fulfilled. You're going to feel successful. The question becomes, do you become successful and then you're joyful or are you joyful and that leads to success? The answer is you're joyful and then it leads to success.

What is success? It's what you define it as. Success is what you define it as. You want to get with God and you want to write down, God, what is your success plan for my life? Then write it down. I've done the same. Then lastly, you're just going to laugh more. I surf about five times a week with my friend Bobby Ramsey and I laugh hysterically every day that we surf. We go to coffee, it's our coffee. I hope this is beneficial to you. It's very important in our life that we live a life rooted in joy. Now, you might be overwhelmed. You might have anxiety.

You might feel like you're in a dark place right now. I believe in a God of miracles. I believe God can stretch down right now, even through a video, even through a teaching, as we pray, you can say to God right now, God, please help me right now. Would you come into my life, please put your peace in my heart, please fill me if even with just a little bit of your joy right now, take away the anxiety and the heaviness that I feel, come into my life, renew my mind and help me today, Jesus, in Jesus' name. Amen.

If you prayed that, can you please send me a message? I love to pray. I love to reach out to people and encourage them. I'd love to do that for you if you got something out of this. Until tomorrow and next time, I hope you have a beautiful day.

If you need anything feel free to text me 562-553-2024. I hope you have a beautiful day - Ryan