Charlene M Brown
I have a creative streak! Sometimes I keep her hidden. But when I do that for too long, she gets angry with me and bursts out, demanding to be heard. She took over me last night. This fun little activity was the result:
I was writing affirmations in bold Crayola Markers! My colored pencils got jealous and jumped out of the box, forcing me to do something with them.
Take a few pieces of paper (I was using the scraps from my affirmations) and cut or tear them into fun shapes and sizes. Any kind of paper will do, colored or white, construction or typing; you can even use scraps like I did!
Once you have a few different shapes, take each one and write something positive or encouraging on it. Write at least ten of these. I had 24 jealous colored pencils to appease, so I did 24, one for each color.
Then make all of the shapes of paper about the same size. This may require some folding for some or all of them, depending on how large you have made them. Do what you feel!
Now get some sort of container to put them in. It can be a tin from cookies or tea, it can be a special box, it can be a paper or plastic bag. You can decorate this too if you like! Put all the positive and encouraging words into this container.
Place this somewhere you have easy access to it.
Whenever you get frustrated or off task or just need something to brighten your day, take a dip into your Magic 8 Ball container and pull out one of those sayings! If you need to pull out more, do it—pull Magic 8-ball sayings to your hearts content.
Viola! There you have it, simple as that! This is an easy way to brighten your day. Heck, make this an office project, sit it on the water cooler and brighten everyone’s day!
There are no limits on how you do this. It’s fun, it doesn’t take too much time and it’s an easy and cheap way to brighten your day.
Do You Love Your Life Now!? I Do!
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October 26th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
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