Daily Happiness Boost: Find Your Daily Rainbow
Daily Happiness Boost: Find Your Daily Rainbow
Our Mission Control Julia Page shares a wonderful tip for seeking out the rainbows to boost your happiness and give you a daily happiness boost.
Here’s a little thing you can do as you go about your day that’ll give you a little hit of happiness and joy to lift those spirits from the challenges of life.
Look out for colours around you and build your daily rainbow.
I learnt this from a Facebook reel recently and at first thought it was a bit of a childish thing, but I quickly found myself looking out for colours and discovered it’s quite addictive.
Give it a go. Then develop you own categories – e.g. nature, signage, cars, etc
Make your own rainbow rules
Whether it’s the colours in the rainbow song: “Red and Yellow and Pink and Green, Orange and Purple and Blue” or the mnemonic we learned at school: “Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain”. Use which ever you like, add more colours/shades. Make your own rules, adapt them as you get more involved. It doesn’t have to be strict.
It’s just about giving yourself a little happiness boost.
Here’s an example…
If you’re dreading your day ahead, try it on your commute to work. Quickly you’ll spot the pops of colour in the monochrome of today’s white, grey and black cars. Red will probably be the first – there are loads of those around. You’ll notice how many different shades of blue cars are on the roads. Green, yellow, orange (the bronze metallic ones count). You’ll start judging whether that dark blue is purpley enough, which is perfectly fine, until see an actual purple car. Pink can be more challenging, so you might have to count the pink on a vehicle’s signage, or a pinky/red car.
I challenge you not to let out a little WOOP when you do discover a really pink car. You will arrive at work in a much better mood.
Find the colours in your daily life
Do it for other things you do in your daily life – in the supermarket maybe. The fruit and veg aisle will be easy. Play it with your kids.
I’ve been doing this for the last week and it has made me more present and aware of my surroundings, but most of all it makes me smile.
The more you look at the colours around you, the more shades you see.
Sorting all the shades in your mind like one of those mega set of coloured pencils we had when we were kids.
