Saturday, October 4, 2008

Leveraging your Secondary

Chris Clark - Color Code Analysis - Page 20 of 27
> Leveraging Your Secondary YELLOW For Growth


The purpose of this activity is to help you continue to leverage your positive YELLOW traits and minimize the messages of incongruence you send by acting out of your YELLOW limitations.

The greatest amount of incongruence in your personality comes from the limitations present in colors other than your Core. What this means to you specifically is that your YELLOW limitations are probably holding you back even more than your BLUE limitations. In fact, because your YELLOW limitations are so incongruent with your BLUE Core, when they surface through your behavior, they always make your strengths seem non-genuine to others. The bright side is that the strengths from your Secondary YELLOW will always enhance your personality. The key is to continue to leverage those strengths (as well as those from your Core Color, of course), but to not be inhibited by the limitations. While minimizing the limitations of your Secondary Color may be more easily said than done, it is possible to do if you commit to always remaining vigilant of them and committing to the process of not exhibiting them.



Look at your YELLOW strengths. Circle the traits most critical to your success in life. Transfer them to the diagram below (you may or may not use all of the spaces provided). Now, look at your YELLOW limitations. Circle the traits that are the most damaging to your life success. Transfer them to the diagram below.


  • persuasive
  • creative thinker


  • forgetful
  • self-centered

Chris

To be successful at lessening the impact of your Secondary YELLOW limitations, surround yourself with “police officers” at home and at work. These police officers are people you will ask to be aware that you are working to correct certain behaviors. If they see you behaving contrary to your objective, it is their right to point out your inappropriate behavior in order to help you change. To make this process work, you will need to first commit yourself to being humble and accepting their feedback (after all, you put them in this situation). It is also essential that the people you choose are people with whom you have established a trusting and open relationship.


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2 comments:

"CW" said...

Chris;

You may have good information, my problem is I had to back a few blogs to understand this one. It may help to direct visitors to previous blogs in the beginning, most will just click off the page.

"CW"

Anonymous said...

Hey Chris

Once I got the hang of it. It was fun and interesting. It is always good to know about ourselves. Thanks for the giving people a window to look within us.

Giovanna Garcia