The colour of my journal!

In January, I incorporated the colour TEAL into my daily life. It takes me back to some of the most wonderful destinations I have travelled to, from Iceland to Jamaica! l will be honest and admit that I failed to practice this daily, but since I started the blog I have found myself more and more consistent and diligent and thought I would share with you, in the hope I can invite you to colour your life for the next 30 days!

THANKFULNESS

Being thankful, has been daily even if I didn’t capture it within the pages of my full focus planner. When I first started it was really easy to find someone, something or a moment, I was thankful for. as the day became months it actually became difficult to not repeat myself and suddenly my thankfulness became more creative and imaginative. It makes me smile and laugh flicking back through my journals!

Find one think to be thankful for today, tomorrow and the next 28 days after that. Day 28 will be easy, because if you struggling you can thank me 🙂

ENJOY

I found reflecting at the end of the day, thinking about what I enjoyed most about my day was the hardest practice of all when I started. Nearly a year on I find it so much easier because I have become intentional about enjoying my day, and on the bad or difficult days I still search for a moment, because I know there is one, so I play hide and seek with my brain until I find it.

Capture the big, the small and especially the tiny aspects of your day that you enjoyed! For me looking back as I write today, it has been the laughter with a friend, the trip to a new shore and swimming with starfish everywhere, a meal with my love or my family. Sometimes it has been a moment of solitude, my point is it can be anything from the sun shining or coming out to those moments you will remember forever I only ask you capture it!

finding something to enjoy and appreciating and loving a moment, a person, an event, a meal, your health, your family… (the list could go on and on) a learning opportunity, a surprise….. anything really is how I have chosen to end every day this past week.t is by no means a New Year’s Resolution, I have been practicing gratitude daily for a few years now. It is more of an evolution. A focus if you will, to experience even more and capture these magic moments in my daily life.

APPRECIATION

Appreciation!? I chose the colour teal, and on on the tough days, even I questioned what the difference is/was between thankfulness and appreciation!

The key difference when I created TEAL, a distinguishing factor for me, was that thankfulness was something I received or experienced and appreciation was about something I gave, to acknowledge and appreciate people, things and moments in my life to foster a deeper and meaningful sense of grattitude.

Appreciation for an act of kindness, a helping hand. For a lesson learned or taught. I found it rather awkward to just blurt out loud to someone why I appreciate them, so capturing it in my journal is the perfect way to remember.

LOVED

What I loved about my day has been so rewarding. I looked back today and recognised that sometimes self-care was how I loved myself on that day, or the sounds and sights that brought deep joy, like Easter Sunday family lunch, the thoughtfulness of another – so many many days of one moment I loved.

Capturing the things I have loved this year, expanded my senses and gave life and colour to those memories, and that is what love does – it enriches the experience of life.

Go colour your life….

I know it seems a bit early for trips down memory lane before hogmanay, but I had a tough week and I just need to remember all the good and great and joy this year has brought. I was firmly in the west, reflecting and bathing in the warming sunset tones of TEAL.

Go and write your own TEAL – thankful, enjoyable, appreciative and loved memory of today, jsut do it right now, on a napkin, you phone notes app or your journal if you have one, and commit to tomorrow. Love to know your thoughts and insights as this is how we inspire and co-elevate.

from the western shores of my journey, KA xx