Wake Up With Color

While I was in the state of sleepy this morning, I opened up Real Simple magazine to an article about energy boosters and drainers. This is a very interesting piece they put together here and I suggest everyone should read it in this month’s issue of the magazine. But one of the many suggestions was wearing bright colors. They mentioned something about the Morton’s Salt girl had it right with wearing a bright yellow raincoat on a gloomy day which immediately made me think.

I’m a girl of color. I love wearing bright colors; my closet is filled with every color of the rainbow…including that green color I love! So it never occurred to me that wearing bright colors would help with my energy output for the day. This morning I was feeling very low energy so I thought I would try it out. (Doesn’t it always seem that after a vacation you need a vacation to recover from that vacation?) My Mondays are usually filled with dark blues or pale pinks but today I put on the brightly colored shirt picture above.

I wasn’t expecting an immediate reaction to my shirt that would probably wake Micheal Jackson from his grave, but something did happen. I got dressed and my day started moving. My energy level has been up and I’ve been more friendly to the people around me which means I wasn’t one of those energy vampires they talk about in that article. Which means I probably brightened their day too. Here I am in the sleepy part of my day and I’m still going strong. I haven’t hit the sleepy zone yet so there might be some truth to what they said. Bright colored close might be a simple solution to a low energy day.