Welcome to GoodStoryADay

Focus on GOOD, not bad, Believe "I CAN," not "I can't," Showcase their TALENTS, not their faults, & Manifest GOODNESS in their lives and the world!

She lives these four simple principles daily and loves to instill them in children.

In the past she often pondered, "How can I best do this?"

She waited and listened . . . sometimes patiently, sometimes not!

Then, one day, the answer came to her:

"Give our precious children, a Good Story A Day, and make it accessible to all."

She didn't need to ask, "How?"

The answer tumbled out of her mouth out loud: "For a Penny-a-Day."

"I got goose bumps from my toes to my head. Every hair on my body was standing straight up," she states.

Yes! This is what I was born to do, she thought. This is the culmination of all I have studied, worked, and yearned for!

All my publishing activities over the past 30 years were leading me in this direction. My education added up to this. My years of teaching English, literature, writing, and reading, certainly gave me insight into the minds and needs of children. My parenting years . . . oh yes, they taught me to really love kids, my own and others, and to become a storyteller with compassion and love, with excitement and imagination, with knowledge and hope. My work publishing and coaching with New York Times best selling authors, Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul™ fame and Robert G. Allen, acclaimed as the Millionaire-Maker, has brought me in touch with thousands of people who are looking for better solutions (which we give in the Enlightened Wealth Institute). And, most importantly, as a child, I was trained by good stories from my earliest recollections under the tender tutelage of my mother. All she ever wanted to be was a mother to nurture children with goodness, inside-and-out. And that is exactly what she did, or I should say does. She is still guiding me!

Yes, Joycebelle's entire life immediately "added up" in one simple phrase:

GoodStoryADay for a Penny-a-Day.

She feels that she was born to present GoodStoryADay to children of all ages worldwide.

"Wow!" she exclaims. "I knew I was born to accomplish a great mission in life. We all are! But I never knew what or how until in that one split second, it all became clear . . . the entire process, the entire system, the results!"

"Just think of it," she continued. "If kids could get GoodStoryADay for a Penny-a-Day, almost everyone with access to computers could afford that."

Immediately, her calculator started clicking. How many children are there with computers? How many without? What ages are they? What grades are they in? How many kids are on the streets? How many moms and dads will actually read a GoodStoryADay with their kids? Can this actually change world thought?

One more piece of the pie came into view . . .

She reasoned, "There are 21 age groups from prenatal through age 19. Each age group should have its own stories. That's 21 stories a day for 365 days a year. My calculator clicked out the huge number needed: 7,666 Good Stories (including leap year), and each day all 21 stories would be centered on a single GOOD Word.

"Wow!" she went on. "If all the children and their parents were focused on a single good word each day, that would be world transforming. They would not only get a GoodStoryADay, but a Good Word, a Good Quote. and a Good Journal to write how that Good Idea changed their life that day."

Thus, she created a Goodness Package filled up full, and then she set out to deliver it.

Everyone she told about GoodStoryADay said such things as,

"Yes, this is wonderful!" "Let me help." "Let me write a story." "Let me set up a GoodStoryADay website." "Let me get involved with the charity aspect. I want to provide computers for the needy and place them where street kids can have access to them." Or "Let me help feed the bodies of hungry kids so they have the energy and life to feel good about themselves." "Let me head up the educational programs to help kids learn to perfect their reading, writing, singing, dancing, performing, artistic, and creative talents." "Let me head up the showcasing of kids talents. (Joycebelle discovered that when she taught junior and high school, the students could write remarkable stories, poems, plays, and skits, and that they eagerly share their talents when they have the opportunity. She maintains that kids are talented and that we just have to provide them with a place to shine!)

That's what GoodStoryADay is all about: If you focus on good, believe you can, learn how to successfully showcase your talents, You Will Manifest Goodness in your life and in the world around you. It all happens . . . One Story, One Child, One Family One Day at a time.

Joycebelle's vision is: We can change the world-focus from bad to good. We will see with our eyes, hear with our ears, and feel in our hearts the change to good movies, good music, good entertainment, good books, good magazines and good newspapers, good advertising, and good World Wide Web…

Joycebelle invites everyone to join her in seeing and achieving the GoodStoryADay Big Picture:

"Help me help kids learn their true value and show them how they can find their passion and purpose in life, refine their talents, and showcase those talents to the world. What a world we will then have for all our kids and us to enjoy!"

Joycebelle Credits:

Founder: GoodStoryADay

Author: Love Your Beauty, Freedom Forever, Raefon in the Land of WOW! and many "Funtastic" E-books for children.

Publisher and producer: Mastermind Your Way to Millions by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen, Infopreneuring course materials by Robert Allen, and over 500 information products by various professionals in banking, job search, incorporating, licensing, underwater photography, and marketing. Joycebelle is president of RichWorld, Inc., which publishes books, magazines, newspapers, educational materials, courses, newsletters, E-zines and produces children's theater, videos, audios, CDs, DVDs, films and websites.

Infopreneur: Each year Joycebelle teaches hundreds of aspiring authors how to create and market their information products in classes taught by New York Times bestseller and millionaire-maker Robert G. Allen (author of the all-time best selling financial book, Nothing Down) and Mark Victor Hansen (of Chicken Soup for the Soul™ fame), co-authors of their most recent bestsellers, The One Minute Millionaire and Cracking the Millionaire Code.

Joycebelle is also a speaker, storyteller, poet, artist, musician, composer, naturalist, and underwater explorer, model, and photographer. Two of her stories are published in Chicken Soup for the Teacher's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul, and numerous others have appeared in National Geographic, World, National and International Wildlife, Ranger Rick's, Oceans, Sea World Magazine, LA Times, Miami Herald, Saturday Evening Post, Smithsonian, Skin Diver, and many more worldwide. She has appeared on primetime national television and lectured throughout the world.

She created an information empire in the underwater photography market, giving seminars, underwater film festivals, courses of instruction, and much more.

Naturalist: Joycebelle's love of adventure drew her to the ocean to photograph and write about the wonderful life there: sea otters, manatees, dolphins, whales, giant octopus, and many more underwater critters. She dove with the greats in the underwater world, Captain Jacques Yves and Philippe Cousteau, Lloyd, Beau, and Jeff Bridges, Ron Church—her late husband, a noted underwater photographer—and many others.

Education: Joycebelle attended a one-room country school in Michigan (Hunter School K-8) and Clarkston High School where she earned a full scholarship for college. She obtained her BS degree and teaching certification at Eastern Michigan University, and did graduate work at San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego.

Mother: Acclaimed by her readers as the Goodness-Maker, Joycebelle is foremost a mother of two wonderful, loving adult children, Joy and Erik. The three have become best friends and enjoy traveling, surfing, skin diving, skiing, reading, watching movies, going to the theater, singing, playing music, laughing, walking, talking, and working together. Joycebelle's Number One occupation is being a mom. As she says, "Parenting is the most remarkable of all jobs in the world and is the greatest gift to humanity. And the best part of it all is telling stories to kids."