Fifteen-Minute Fix #6: Collage Your Best Life

Giving Thanks

This fix will help you align your intention for what you would like to strengthen the most in your life.  I am posting it this Thanksgiving week because I am planning to use this process to feel appreciation – and anything that helps me do that in just fifteen minutes is amazing. 

Assemble the following ‘ingredients’:        

1.         A 3x5 piece of cardboard or mat board

2.         Glue, glue stick or mod podge

3.         Three favorite magazines

4.         Scissors or exact-o knife

Set a timer for five minutes (I love my iphone for this) and flip through your magazines looking for smallish images of things that you love about your life now.  They do not have to be the exact things but can be a symbol to represent the thing or the feeling that you would like to focus on.  This card is just for you, so it is less important that it look good and more important that it connect you with feeling good.

You can also use junk mail, newspapers, and old cards – anything that has images that ‘sing’ to you. Don’t get sucked into reading articles, or spend time being too careful – just relax and rip!  If it’s easier, pick more images at this stage and then choose from them in the next step.  Also, pick a page that has a lot of your favorite color to use as the background.  You can also fill in the background with colored markers.

Spend the next five minutes cutting them out.  The images can over or under-lap each other or not even touch at all.  You can do more images if you like the look of it or fewer images to make a stronger statement.

The last five minutes is used to attach the images to the card.  Start with the background color, if you have one.  Then proceed with the rest of the images. If you did not use a background color, fill in the background with colored marking pens.

Appreciation by A. LaBrie

Place your collage card where you can appreciate it – and each time you see it, your appreciation will grow stronger.  Sometimes, I even take a picture of the card and use it as the ‘wallpaper’ on my phone.  This way, every time I pick up my phone, I can feel that good feeling of appreciation all over again!