CRAYON WISDOM

We could learn a lot from crayons...Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, and some have weird names, but they all have to live in the same box."
Crayon Wisdom: #1 
Although we may fear the responsibility of taking responsibility, one fact remains. Other crayons can't be responsible for your color.

1. TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF IS NORMAL ADULT CRAYON BEHAVIOR
2. NOT ALL CRAYONS ARE GOING TO LIKE YOU
   Some colors clash, but they can still be in the same box, and be a part of the same picture.
3. YOU CAN'T MOVE FORWARD UNTIL YOU ACCEPT YOUR COLOR AS IS
   You may wish you were magenta or pastel blue. You may even try to make yourself one of those colors. The reality is, if you're orange, you're orange. You can only color orange.
4. WORRY DOES NOT KEEP YOU, OR YOUR LOVED CRAYONS, SAFE
   As much as we may dislike, or fear it, all crayons leave their color behind only when outside the safety of the box.
5. WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS WHAT YOU SEE
   If you hold depressing thoughts or beliefs, you will color the world gray. If you believe you must fight for everything, you may color everyone else red. But, every crayon wants to be seen as their own color.

Crayon Wisdom: #2 

1. CHAOTIC CRAYON MIND = CHAOTIC LIFE
   If you always want the crayons in the box to be in a different order, you can stir the box. However, that's not what crayons are for.
2. SUBSTITUTE CHALLENGE FOR BOX DRAMA
   Perhaps the biggest challenge in life is to be what you are. Mixing it up with the other crayons is not about being the central crayon. Its about expressing your color among all the others.
3. THINK ABOUT RELAXING INTO YOUR COLOR, BECOMING COMFORTABLE IN YOUR WRAPPER
   If your crayon wrapper says yellow, and you're trying to be green, you will not be comfortable in your own wrapper.
4. THE WORLD NEEDS A COLOR LIKE YOU
   The picture needs your color. In fact, it needs your specific shade of that color. No other crayon can color for you.
5. EMOTIONAL COLORING IS YOUR FRIEND
   You may feel a different color than you are. A brown crayon may feel blue (sad). A blue crayon may feel red (passionate). This feeling information is a universal crayon language. All crayons can feel the other colors in the same way

.CRAYON WISDOM#3

1. ALL THE WISDOM YOU NEED IS WITHIN YOU
   You have the wisdom of red because you are red, or the wisdom of black because you are black. No one else can teach you to be your shade of red or black, or whatever color you are.
2. EAT WELL, SLEEP WELL, COLOR A LOT
   You can't expect to be mentally and emotionally strong without taking care of the basics. Eat some green, stop watching those color-ful cartoons in bed, push yourself out of the box to get to work.
3. YOU WILL COLOR WHAT YOU FOCUS ON
   All crayons can imagine and focus on other colors, and on spaces they'd like to fill in. Focus on what's important to crayons, and to your color, to "do" the picture of health.
4. CHECK IT OUT
   If you think another crayon has insulted or ignored you, check it out! Ask them. This will eliminate a whole day of mental stewing. But remember, though all crayons know the language of feelings, not all speak it well. If you check something out, there's no guarantee the other crayon will know how to respond.
5. FEELING COLORS SAY WHAT THE INTELLECT CAN'T
   The color of feelings can communicate what logic can't. To share feelings effectively, don't scribble all over someone else's color, or blanch instead of letting your color-feeling out.