Posts Tagged ‘books’
Best Wishes for a GOOD New Year by Sharing Goodness with Others!
I will preface this post by letting you know that my thoughts come from my Blue Heart and Brain! This Wednesday evening (September 20th), at sundown, begins the Jewish New Year celebration of Rosh Hashanah. Several years ago, I read an article written by Rabbi John L. Rosove in the Chicago Jewish News. The rabbi’s…
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How do you remember to show your humanity and help others?
Today is the 16th anniversary of the 911 tragedies in New York City, Washington, DC, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Today, people in Texas and Florida are salvaging their lives and dealing with death and destruction after the disastrous hurricanes, Harvey and Irma. Today, people in Mexico, the Philippines, Japan, and Greece are also salvaging their lives and…
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Speak Fluent “Brain Color” as a Second Language to Communicate More Effectively in Your Professional and Personal Life
Yesterday, I presented a What Color Is Your “Professional” Brain? workshop at Clarendale of Algonquin for the local business community. After the meeting, I received a lovely thank you email from Dennison White, who is a Financial Advisor at Edward Jones. I asked Denny if I could use his quote and he gave me his Yellow…
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4 Brain Color Tips To Help Your Make Other People Feel Comfortable
I have been developing and customizing a What Color Is Your “PR Communications” Brain?® Program for the PR Council of Lake County in Illinois. A critical part of a PR consultant’s or specialist’s job is to establish and maintain relationships with an organization’s target audience, the media, and/or specific individuals. They need to make others…
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How does your Brain Color Personality demonstrate and value Trust and Trustworthiness?
My parents always had a copy of Reader’s Digest in our home and I have continued to enjoy the stories and articles since I was a teenager. My Blue Brain loves the human interest stories; my Yellow Brain enjoys the organization and selection of the stories; my Green Brain likes the facts and information offered in the articles,…
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10 Clues for Sincere Listening to Improve Your Communication Skills
This afternoon, I was researching a photo to use for an appropriate slide in new What Color Is Your Brain? presentation. I clicked on Google Images and typed “people listening senior” in the search space. To my surprise, most of the photo were seniors wearing headphones, ear buds, or holding a boom box. It seems…
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Does Building a Harmonious Rapport with Other People Baffle You?
The lyrics, I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, sung in the song, “I’d Like to Teach the World To Sing” make my Blue Harmonious Brain think it would be grand if we all could communicate and collaborate with others in perfect harmony in our workplaces, homes, schools, and communities. To build…
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Tips for effectively communicating and letting your health care professionals know exactly what you want!
When you are a patient, do ever feel like your health care professional speaks to you like a prison warden, a doting grandparent, science teacher, or summer camp counselor? Do you become frustrated and/or upset when your health care professionals do not understand what you want? The answer is simple. Your health care professional probably…
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Relevant Professional and Personal Life Lessons from Dr. Seuss on His 113th Birthday.
Today, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better know to the world as the children author Dr. Seuss would have been 113 years of age. Dr. Seuss is best known for his 60 children’s books, which have sold over 600 million copies and have been translated into more than 20 languages, when he passed away in 1991. Dr. Seuss…
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Sad and Joyful News about Type One Diabetes and Mary Tyler Moore
Yesterday, Wednesday, January 25th, the news that Mary Tyler Moore had died saddened people all over the world. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation international community also lost a courageous advocate for finding a cure for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) and our JDRF International Chairwoman, who brought a voluminous awareness to others around the world about the…
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Personal and Professional Lessons from My “Healing Broken Leg!”
Today is the 6 month anniversary of my “Healing Broken Leg.” As I look outside at the snow on the ground, I think about the beautiful sunny day on July 12, 2016, which also was our eldest son’s birthday. I was about to transplant some ornamental grasses that were in my plant nursery at the…
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Discover How Your Brain Will React to Changes in 2017!
Change is one of the most challenging decisions and experiences for many adults and children! You may not know how your brain will react to change in 2017? However, I do! My Orange Brain is excited about the FREE Chapter, #7 Your Romantic Relationship, from my original What Color Is Your Brain?® book, you will receive when you sign up for…
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