STAYING POSITIVE

When you are feeling down, what most people around you will say to comfort you is, "Come on...stay positive!"

I really do appreciate this short phrase of comfort but seriously when you are at the lowest point of the pits, it's easier said than done.  About 2 years ago, I got myself a life coach to help me sort out on things that I wanted to do.  I remembered one of my biggest dilemma was to stay motivated.  It was hard and took me a few sessions to realise that I need to be doing something significant to get myself up and going again.

One of the things that I thought through was giving myself a daily mantra.  Knowing myself, I didn't want the mantra to be some lengthy phrases or filled with quotes to memorise.  I wanted it personalise and something that shouts "That's ME!"

So I decided to create this...my very own daily dosage of Emo-scrolls!! :) 

Each scoll contains mostly a 1-word emotion description such as these... 

I like the fact that these scrolls are bright and colourful as I love colours!  So how do I use them?  Easy....

Every morning before we set off to send the kids to school, I will unfold one scroll and read out the word that flashes through.  In order to embed this emotion futher, I would tweet the word too.  So that's basically how I'd keep motivating myself for the day by remembering the first emotion word that pops out in the morning.  The best part about this was that I was able to get my kids to participate and made it their mantra for the day too!  They looked forward to be able to pick the scroll of the day and unfolding the emotion behind it.... And oh by the way.... all the emotions written on the scolls are of course words that depict happiness!!  So that means it is non-negotiable that we stay positive throughout the day :P

So what's the one thing you would do to motivate yourself to stay positive?  Feel free to share.....

Have an AWESOME day! :-)