Now Available · 2026
The Joy List
Discovering what brings you genuine joy and intentionally designing your life around it — before the years run out.
About the Book
What if joy was something you could design into your life?
A young girl in Scotland tucked a handwritten list inside an old book. She called it My Eleven Loveliest Things, People Not Counted. Decades later, a man in Idaho found that list — and started paying attention to what actually brought him joy.
The Joy List is a memoir-driven guide to identifying the experiences that bring you genuine joy and designing your life around them — not by accident, but by intention.
"Joy doesn't announce itself. It arrives quietly, in ordinary moments, to people who are paying attention."
— Matt Smith, The Joy List
Inside the Book
Ten chapters. One invitation.
From what joy actually is, to gratitude, awe, intention, and how to spread it — ten chapters that build toward designing a life around what matters.
Explore the chapters"Happiness is what you protect. Joy is what you build."
— Matt Smith, The Joy List