What’s Your Tagline?

We are used to seeing adverts and product placements in movies and tv shows. We all know some of the famous tag lines such as ‘have a break, have a Kitkat’. Others we recall from our childhood. We remember the ones, if they had a memorable advert.

Another way to think about it is the mottos politicians have when there is an election. They come up with a campaign which is often built on a few words. This helps you to believe in what they are going to do for your country.

Moving onto you. How are you feeling today? How do you want to feel?

We have all heard of vision boards and using this to help you visualise the life you want or the outcome of a situation or how a room will look. If you want to feel different to how you are feeling now, then why not create your own tagline or life slogan to go along with your vision board? You can use this to help you focus on what you want. For example, you could use the tagline ‘Kindness begins with yourself’ or keep it simple ‘Be Happy’ then work on creating a happy life for yourself.

I want you to think of a slogan that suits your own situation. Something that resonates with you and will keep you moving forward to get to where you want to be emotionally, physically and mentally.

Think of it as branding. You are your own brand. What tagline or slogan goes with who you are and who you want to be? Get some ideas from Google, or write down words you identify with and try and come up with a phrase you can relate too. You want it to be motivational and also transferable into all aspects of your life.

You may now be thinking, your phrase or slogan has to be spectacular from the start. However, it is ok if it takes time to get the right one. It should feel natural and work for you. You may need to go with the flow and amend as needed until you get it right.

Let’s go with the tagline I mentioned at the start ‘Kindness begins with yourself’. Are you someone who does many things for other people, always putting them ahead of yourself and ignoring your own needs? Do you encourage your friends or family to be more aware of how they treat themselves, when you in fact do the opposite for yourself?

So use this to help you become aware of being kind to yourself. Start by noticing how you talk to yourself or what you tell yourself as a story. Keep thinking about how you would talk to a friend and use this to help guide you into the way you frame things for yourself.

Think of it like this, you have started doing a fitness routine and every other day you spend an hour or so at the gym working through a programme you have been given to help your overall fitness. You do this religiously for several weeks and one day you can’t be bothered going so you miss your usual slot. The following day you are so annoyed with yourself as there was no real reason to miss it. So you berate yourself and make yourself feel terrible for missing one session. Because of this you go into a spiral of eating lots of chocolate to make yourself feel better and then you feel worse about having let yourself down with the unhealthy eating and the missed gym session. You feel like there is no point continuing so you throw in the towel and give up.

Flip this around, your friend has told you what has happened and you likely respond in a way to let her know we all do things like this from time to time and it’s ok, nothing or nobody is perfect and you have to allow for bumps in the road. This is a bump – not a hole. You do not need to give up. Just hit your own reset button and get back onto it the very next day. Your friend would not feel like a failure and you don’t see them like this. So why do you see yourself as a failure a disappointment?

Kindness begins with yourself. As you can see, this is a learning opportunity for you to become more aware of being kinder to yourself, take on board your own advice.

Make this into a small project. Think of a tagline, create a vision board, to go along with your slogan and work towards being the YOU you want to be. Give yourself a period of time such as 4 weeks and check in with yourself to see if it is working for you. If not, change it.

Let me know how you get on.

Thanks for reading. Look after you.

Love Emma xx