One of my favorite things to do each week is to pick the cover photo for this newsletter. I search a term that seems relevant to my message and then burrow deep into google images. This week I started by searching 'happy' which delivered a visual assault of yellow. Yellow smiley faces, yellow minions and random stock photos of people with outstretched arms.
Yellow is the color of happiness. Well, according to the internet and the odd clinical study.
I once asked someone how much yellow was too much yellow? At the time I had a yellow SUV and I wanted to know if yellow rain-boots was too much of a look. They convinced me it was. I still think I could have pulled it off.
As 2020 approaches I'm asking myself what I want from the 366 days that rapidly approach. Yes, it's a leap year people!
I'm asking myself what is important? And I realize I also need to investigate what isn't important.
I have always cared about happiness but happiness isn't always yellow. It can come in a lot of colors. It can look a lot of different ways.
Now I want the yellow rain-boots. I am not interested in playing it safe. We can get so focussed on our goals that we forget about what we can eliminate. What we want to do is just as important as what we don't want to do.
So Happy New Year. May you achieve all you desire and may you eliminate all you don't.