Empowering Lifestyle

Instant Friends

Anyone can turn a total stranger into a lifetime friend in just 5 minutes. Most people focus on themselves when they talk to someone. Everybody knows we all just want to be listened to and understood. I have learned an easy way to do just that. It’s a real skill that anyone can learn.

I have learned a system color system to help explain personalities.  Most people realize when we understand the people in our lives we are better able to listen. Everyone has basic personality traits that dictate who we are and affect how we relate to each other.  Yes, there are many factors that influence these interactions.  Things such as our family of origin and the cultural patterns we grew up with. Circumstances will dictate our attitudes and personality traits to change as necessary for survival.

The system I learned is really easy for me to understand. The system divides everyone into one of four colors; yellow, green, blue and red.  Most people are a rainbow of these four colors. Sometimes we even emphasis a specific color based on the situation. However, one color is always our dominant color. This is the color that represents our true personality and the traits and mannerisms that define us.

Here is a quick break down of each personality color’s motto:

Red – Get out of my Way

Blue – Fun, fun and oh yeah more fun

Green – Let’s have the facts and figures

Yellow – Let’s be friends

Learning to use the Color to Success System has been a wonderful breakthrough for me!  With this training and, using this simple system, I have found new understanding about myself and my family.  I can now accept myself and each family member for who they are, just the way they are.

The picture I used for my Wordless Wednesday post is a picture I took in the Natural History Museum in New York City in one of the display cases. My husband and I went there at the end of August this year. I realized how far I had come with using what I have learned in my life when I put the pictures from this year into my iPhoto Event Folder of New York City.

Almost one year ago (September 2008) my outgoing step-daughter and I went to the most of the same place in New York City that my introverted husband and I did. I had just as much fun with my husband letting him be him as I did with my step-daughter who is way more like me. Loves to have fun and extremely outgoing.

Everybody says a picture is worth a thousand words. I uploaded some of the pictures in a couple of Picasa Albums (step-daughter and husband) so that you can see for yourself. Very different photos, yet just as much Fun for me because I understood each person for who they are and went with the flow of the day.

Let me know what you think!

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Debi Talbert