Live Inspired! Inspirational Color Quote of the Week: Colors Blue, Green and White What You Need? “Colors. Would it be green or blue today? Maybe white—my favorite. A dark voice in the back of my mind offered no color at all as an alternative. I smothered that voice. The days of no color were simply too hard to bear. I needed color today.” --―Julie Hockley (author, Crow’s Row) What about you? What color(s) do you choose today? Blue or green for some calm? Red or orange for some passion? White because it’s neutral and goes with everything? Perhaps color isn’t something you feel you need right now? What I like about Julie Hockley’s thought (in addition of course to her emphasis on color) is her focus on what she needs and therefore on what she wants around her. Think about it. You get up in the morning. You’re in a hurry, and you pick out the first piece of clothing in the wardrobe you find. You’re happy there’s clean stuff in the closet. There isn’t much time before it’s time to leave the house. Voila, you just leave. Hmm, not much time to think about colors, let alone to slow down for 5 minutes to take stock of other things you might want or need. The character in Julie Hockley’s novel for me gets it about right. No question she’s in touch with what she needs. Thinking through her choices, she’s consciously figuring out what makes her happy. For her, it’s not about being engaged in some intellectual or abstract exercise. There’s real emotion in the endeavor. Though there’s a “dark” inner voice suggesting otherwise (sound familiar?), she knows she can’t bear to have no color; she feels strongly aboutit, and she lets us know that white is her favorite. Once you get in the habit, you can even fine-tune the process. Maybe you choose certain colors for your clothes but others for the objects around the house? Colors you want to paint the rooms? And of course it doesn’t have to be just about color. When you’re focusing on what you need, there’s a whole range of other senses you might want to consider and a diverse set of needs you might want to satisfy. Do you need different things in different situations? What a great idea on a regular basis to ask these basic questions. Think about all the times we make things so complicated we just go round and round and can’t come up with answers, or think about the times we forget to ask ourselves in the first place. Maybe focusing on what we need is really simpler than we think, and for starters, maybe it comes down to questions about what color is going to make us most happy in any particular moment. How do these ideas resonate with you, and what are one or two actions you might want to take in the next day or so on that basis?
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AuthorI am a Life Coach, a Color Wisdom Card Practitioner, and yes, even a Professor (political science, State University of New York at Albany). I use the Color Wisdom Cards to support clients in exploring priorities and taking concrete actions to stay on track with the goals they set. Because in my own life I have overcome a lot of self-doubt, I want to work with people towards more confidence and self-empowerment. You can do it! What is it you want to do? Categories
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