Brain Color Clues
Diversity Awareness Month – Celebrate the Blue Brain Personality Type
To celebrate the second week of Diversity Appreciation Month, I want to share one of my Blue Brain workshop experiences. Last September 17th, I had the pleasure of working with Brenda Judson, the Assistant Regional Administrator Region 2 of Department of Labor/OSHA, and her colleagues. Brenda had purchased a copy of What Color Is Your…
Read moreDiversity Awareness Month – Celebrate the Yellow Brain Personality Type
October is Diversity Awareness Month. I was fascinated to read that Carole Copeland Thomas, MBA, founded Diversity Awareness Month in October of 2006. The following is Carole’s definition of diversity: “Diversity is understanding, appreciating, and ultimately managing difference and similarities at the same time. Its reach is all-inclusive and may represent categories such as: Class, Race,…
Read moreOrange Brain Color Personality Happiness!
Happiness for my “Orange Brain” is finally having a healthy computer. Sorry, I missed my posting my normal and Weekly Brain Color Clue about what makes an Orange Brainers’ Happy, last Monday. Having fun is a primary requirement for an Orange Brain Happiness. I love practicing Julia Cameron’s idea of an Artist Day, which she wrote about in…
Read more“Green Brain” Personality Type Happiness is a Roget’s Thesaurus!
Thesaurus is the Latin word for treasure or treasury.Many people are familiar with the reference book entitled Roget’s Thesaurus and have a copy at their desks or on the bookshelf. Most people who work with a word processing program use the Shift + F7 key or tool- language – thesaurus option as a dictionary. However, most of people do not have a clue about the…
Read moreHappiness & The Blue Brain Personality Type Workshop
“Collaborative” is a accurate adjective for the Blue Brainers! To celebrate the second week of Happiness Happens Month, I want to tell you about the What Color Is Your Brain? Workshop I presented to members of Northwest Suburban Practice Group of the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois, last Thursday, August 7th. Notice the “Blue Brain” adjective of the “Collaborative” Law Institute. …
Read moreHappiness & The Yellow Brain Personality Type
August is Happiness Happens Month!To kick off this month’s celebrations of Brain Color Happiness, I’d like to share one of my favorite, Mac-Do Lodge Summer Camp, poems with you, which was written by Pricsilla Leonard.HAPPINESSHappiness is like a crystal, Fair and exquisite and clear, Broken in a millions pieces, Shatter, scattered far and near. Now and then…
Read moreOrange Brainers Vacation and Reunions with Family and Friends
The last Brain Color Clue entry for this month is definitely not the least. It is all about having a grand time with the “Orange Brainers” who love to have fun, be spontaneity and experience variety on their vacationsor at family reunions. Orange Brainers find unfamiliar or exotic places and meeting new people exciting. Sporting trips such as helicopter skiing, crewing on a sailboat, whitewater rafting, or…
Read moreHarmonious Brain Color Communications
Did you know that your Brain Color tone can throw people off guard? I was speaking with a business associate about my What Color Is Your Brain? book in my customary “Lovely Blue Brain” tone of voice. He then asked me a question which I answered in my “Logical Green Brain” tone. He immediate questioned, “Do I note…
Read moreYour Green Brain on Vacation
I am fascinated by Greta Garbo’s “Green Brain” contemplative pose. Is she thinking… “I’m so misunderstood!”“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.”For most “Green Brainers” there is no difference in her quote, because the optimum word is “ALONE.” My interpretation: Greta could have been thinking… “How can…
Read moreA Blue Brain Honeycomb Heart
As Blue Brainer, when I think about my relationships with family members and friends, I visualize my heart as a honeycomb, with a compartment for each individual. However, at times, it has felt like the cast members from The Guiding Light, the longest running soap opera, have filled those compartments instead of cover models of Family…
Read moreFamily Brain Color Reunions and Vacations
July is Family Reunion Month, according to Chase’s Calendar of Events. Many families incorporate family reunions into their vacations. That mixture can be harmonious or hazardous. For the next four Mondays I will post Brain Color Clues to help you create more harmony, and avoid the hazards of visiting family members, at home or on the road. Yellow Brainers arrange…
Read moreOutrageous Orange Conflict Resolution
“Who Stole The cookie From The Cookie Jar?” is the title of this picture below. The following are the photographers descriptive captions for “The CrasHBURN identity crisis:” a.) “The grumpy crashy: You did it again! I mean it, I’m gonna kick you’re a*s!” The “Orange” trickster getting caught b.) “The childish and schizophrenic crashy:…
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