When we understand the psychology of colour, we begin to recognise that colour has an emotional impact on us, so we can use colours to our advantage to help us succeed in our goals. So what colours will help you stay on top of your resolutions so that you have a successful outcome? To get clarity, or to maintain clarity of your goals use the colour yellow. Either post your goal up on yellow sticky notes, or write on yellow paper so that you are maintaining your focus and using your intellect and logic to recognise the next step towards achieving your goal. In addition a dash of red will help you keep motivated and give you the drive and passion to stay on track. Use a red pen when writing on yellow paper to really commit to success.    

How do we measure our success? Most people are more ‘wired’ to failure than recognizing and celebrating success so it’s important to recognize how much closer we are to our goal. Creating a list of our ‘success outcomes’ helps us maintain momentum and pushes us forward. Use the colours gold to help you stay in your authentic power, orange to increase your optimism and green to welcome the abundance, whether that’s increased energy, increased finances, increased balance, increased momentum; start to recognise abundance in all its forms.  

Most people will tell you to share your goals with others. My advice is don’t share. The reason is twofold. First, when you share your goal most people will be happy for you initially, but human nature tends to lend itself to maintaining a status quo. So if you are trying to move forward, most people will unconsciously sabotage your progress because fundamentally they don’t want you to change and grow. Second you have to dig deep to find your willpower and maintain it, especially when it feels tough going. If you are having to answer questions as to how you are progressing, and watch out for unintentional sabotage, it’s far harder to summon up more willpower and energy. Have you ever experienced losing weight and noticing people offer you extra portions, or on the other side of the coin say to you ‘oh you can’t have that, you’re on your diet aren’t you?’. I have. All it does is offers temptation which takes energy to keep refusing, and the second scenario makes me feel deprived, so my natural human reaction is to want something that appears I can’t have.  So unless you have an incredibly supportive, motivational and inspirational friend or family member who is going to act as your boot camp Sargent and key cheerleader at the times you need it, keep your goals under wraps until you have got into your rhythm and almost at your end goal. The key colour to help you keep things under the radar is black, so a black journal with yellow paper gives you the ability to keep your goals private until you’re ready to share, but helps you stay focused, alert and motivated to achieve success.