For all "Colors" on Red gift of "Vision"

In his book, The 7 Secrets of Successful Sales Management, author Jack D. Wilner defines vision as "innovating a purposeful, organized search for change."

Vision has elements of invention (WHITE), entrepreneurship and challenging adventure (RED), curiosity (YELLOW), and purpose (BLUE).

There is always an element of risk in vision.

Visionary REDS, and those who learn to take on this gift, are long term oriented. They don't think in terms of minutes or hours, they think in years and decades. Dr. Taylor Hartman writes in "The People Code", "Reds think and live 6 months out." REDS can see the future, because their core motive of "power", creates it!

Consider this: Reds can see the future as easily as whites clearly see what is right before them...and as naturally as blues see the potential pitfalls and the details needed to bring quality...and as instinctively as yellows, living outside the box, see ways to innovate existing realities. All the colors can, and should, work in harmony, each orchestrating their innate strengths and gifts to actualize the vision.

Ray Kroc had the vision to turn a west coast hamburger stand into billions of Big Mac Sales.

R.H. Macy had the vision that a square block of stores, all under one roof, could become the mightiest retail enterprise.

Henry Ford had the vision of building a 6 cylinder automobile engine.

The list goes on and on.

To paraphrase from Wilner, Companies... and people, who share in vision, do not stand in the way of the rainbow road that leads to the glorious pot of gold.

When people of vision, work for a visionary company, both know there is no limit to high acheivement.

Colors and Motive in Grandchildren

Color Code – Motive – and Children
Dr. Taylor Hartman teaches that our personality is innate…inborn…we came here with it, and…it is driven by a core motive. Your secondary color is the second most powerful influence in your personality.
Last week I had an experience that taught me about the power of motive in my 5 year old BLUE granddaughter, Ari, and my 6 year old BLUE grandson, Nate, and my 4 year old WHITE grandson, Eli. I will start with the boys.

Tammy and I had enjoyed a week with all 5 of our grandchildren, 3 boys, 2 girls. You see, the family took a vote and decided that I should fork over $400 to buy a Wii. (By the way…a Wii is pronounced Wee, and is an ingenious video arcade game that plays on your TV.) You can play all sorts of games with a Wii, like baseball, hockey, golf, tennis, bowling, and there is even an exercise program. ( I am staying away from that one!)
Bowling seems to be our family favorite game to play because everyone can participate, even the little ones.
I was having a great game while bowling with my grandson, Nate, a 6 yr. old BLUE. I had a spare and 2 strikes going. My best game ever! All of a sudden I noticed the TV screen. WHAT??? “Hey, where did the game go?” What happened, Nate?” (thinking yellow me had pushed a wrong button)
Nate’s response was... no response. I turned to my WHITE son-in-law, TJ and said, again, “What happened?” (T.J. is a typical WHITE TECHY kind of guy…brilliant…I knew he would have the answer)
"Nate reset the game." he replied, calmly.
“WHY????” “I was doing great!”
"Evidently he wasn’t." (T.J.'s response)
I turned to Nate and tried my best to reason with him, using logic, and disciplining him by making him sit out the next game. How do you think that worked with a BLUE?
There he sat, on the sofa…with a forlorn look on his face. Sad, very sad.
Trying to teach him a lesson, I started a new game of bowling, this time with his 4 year old little brother, Eli. Eli is a WHITE/RED so we thought!
Eli is also typical WHITE. Very good with high tech gadgetry. STRIKE…STRIKE…STRIKE! I became more engrossed in Eli’s rather amazing performance, than in my own. I was all excited and anticipating his fourth roll of the ball when I looked at the TV and guess what happened?
“What happened?”
“Reset again”, TJ said, calmly.
“WHY???!!!”, I exclaimed.
I turned to Nate who was still sitting on the sofa looking like he had just lost his best friend. “Did YOU reset that game too?” “Your little brother had 3 strikes in a row!”
“Guwwandad”, said Eli.
“What, Eli”, I replied, exasperated.
“I did it.”
“Why!!??” “You had a great game going.” “Why would you do that!?”
“Beecaauuse Nathan wanted to play with us”.

Ohhhhh….the strong influence of secondary color. Eli’s Mom had told me she thinks Eli’s secondary color is BLUE instead of RED. After seeing his willingness to sacrifice his own best interest for the good of his big brother, I am beginning to agree with her.
Amazing, simply amazing.

Coming up.....amazing insights into the BLUENESS of my grandaughter.

Kudos from Color Code International

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A Hand in Glove (Blue married to Yellow) Conflict

One of our favorite times during Motive Training is taking time for participants to share Color Code Moments. Last week we enjoyed a story told by a couple we have grown to love and appreciate. (Names have been changed to protect the innocent...and not so innocent...ha ha.)

Carol is a wonderful BLUE woman with a long term marriage to her great YELLOW guy, Garrett.

Carol came home from work, her arms loaded with groceries that needed to be put away, before she fixed one of those delicious BLUE...quality, well thought out, and well prepared evening meals.

After enjoying dinner together, Garrett got up from the table and headed for his favorite Lazy Boy chair, while Carol cleared off the table and did the dishes. (in all likelihood :)

From his comfortable easy chair, Garrett hollered, "Where are those Cheez-its you bought?"

In "True Blue" fashion, Carol replied with a sense of moral correctness, "We just got up from the table. You don't need to eat those now. They are for a snack".

Yellow, fun loving, Garret replied, "I only ate one Sloppy Joe, so I could eat THEM! Where are they? I saw them when you unpacked them from the groceries."

"Garrett, those are for when I'm working and can't be here to cook for you. You can eat them...THEN!"

"I don't want to hear it"!!! (Garretts' response)

Silence ruled the remainder of the night...and all the next day...until Garrett shared this story with everyone at Motive Matters class that evening.

The rest of us in the room were laughing hysterically at an interpersonal conflict that didn't "feel" that funny at the time it was taking place in Carol and Garrett's home.

One of the great blessings of training Color Code and Motive is when couples begin to "get themselves", and are able to laugh at themselves. We are all rather funny when our "automatics" show themselves during everyday life.

As you know, I am a YELLOW married to a BLUE. I was laughing the most enthusiastically because I could SSOOOO identify with what had happened. BLUES often feel like they are called to teach the rest of us the "right"..."responsible"..."and most appropriate" manner in which life SHOULD be lived. Yellows just enjoy life in the moment. For a BLUE, it is just NOT appropriate...necessary...or healthy, to eat a snack after a good dinner. Blue Carol was probably feeling guilty that her homemade Sloppy Joes were, somehow, not good enough to satisfy her beloved's hunger. For a YELLOW, its just the thought of how gooood Cheez-its taste!!! As a matter of fact...now that I think about it....I'm gonna stop typing this blog, jump in my car and run down to Fastrip to get myself a pack of Cheez-its! Right now!!! :)

Do your work. Love well. Love you all. Thanks for sharing K & G! :)