The Stay Joyful Method: Using Joy as a Tool to Rise, Lead, and Redefine Success

By Bose Akadiri

Transform your approach to goal setting, leadership, and networking by leveraging joy as your strategic advantage. Most high achievers follow the traditional formula: set goals, work hard, celebrate later. But what if you've been doing it backwards? What if joy isn't the reward for achieving your goals, but instead it's the foundation that makes achieving them inevitable?

Corporate trainer and motivational speaker, Bose Akadiri, reveals why employees who experience joy at work are 49% less likely to leave their roles and how learning to claim (and reclaim) your joy transforms every area of life. Drawing from her journey from Oklahoma to Chicago with no job and no network, Bose shares the proven methodology she used to build a distinguished career at Boeing, Salesforce, and JPMorgan Chase while creating the life she truly wanted.

You'll discover:

Vision and Goals: Turning your dreams into your realityYour elevator pitch and beyond: Building your professional brand and networking yourself into your dream jobPurpose-driven leadership: Achieving a triple WIN...a win for you, your team, and your organization

Whether you're a professional feeling stuck despite external success, a leader looking to energize your team, or an organization seeking to improve retention and performance, this book provides practical tools for building the business case for joy. The Stay Joyful Method: Using Joy as a Tool to Rise, Lead, and Redefine Success isn't about toxic positivity or ignoring life's challenges. It's about learning to use joy as both your offense and defense. Most importantly, it's about claiming your joy in good times and reclaiming it when life tries to steal it away. Stop postponing your joy until someday. Your dream life is waiting And it starts with the strategic decision to choose joy as your foundation, not your finish line.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1953315666
• ISBN13: 9781953315663
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Press 49
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"