Brain Color Clues
De-Stress The Holidays With Your Brain Color
George Bernard Shaw said, “When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.” When your relatives come home for a holiday or a special occasion, do you think they resemble the people on a Disney World dream vacation brochure or…
Read moreDiversity Awareness Month – Celebrate The Orange Brain Personality TypeW
This is the last week of Diversity Appreciation Month and time to celebrate the diverse attributes and abilities of the Orange Brainers. Author, C.S. Lewis said, “For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of person you are.” How we see another…
Read moreDiversity Awareness Month – Celebrate The Green Brain Personality Type
Today begins the 3rd week of Diversity Appreciation Month. Jim Henson, the genius creator of the Muppets, said, “There is a sense of our characters caring for each other and respecting each other. A positive feeling. A positive view of life. That’s the key to everything we do.” Your interaction with the other Brain Colors…
Read moreDiversity 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…
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