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they will thrive and find true satisfaction.
Follow Your True Colors To The Work
You Love
Table of Contents
Prologue
Introduction
1. Who Am I?
2. Your True Colors
3. Your Hidden Talents
4. Self-Esteem Comes in Four Colors
5. The Blue Personality - To Love & Be Loved
6. The Green Personality - Knowledge is Power
7. The Gold Personality - Plan It
8. The Orange Personality - Where's the Action
9. Four Paths to a Successful Life's Work
10. Dream Buster - Facing Fear
11. How To Create Your Ideal Life's Work
12. The Harmony of Colors
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Find Your True Purpose in life!
Your purpose in life is to use
your unique gifts and talents to make a contribution to the world.
Are You Wasting Your Talents?
Do you know how many people hate their jobs but are afraid to
leave because they don’t know what else to do? Are you wasting your
talents? It is paramount that your purpose be aligned with expressing who
you are and using your natural gifts and talents to do the work you love.
… I
was a miserable stay at home mom and my husband had been an over worked,
under paid restaurant manager for ten years. Although I am a gold, blue
and my husband is an orange, green we both had real estate in the list
of careers that would fit our personalities… We both went to real estate
school and now work together for a real estate company…. We are now
beginning our second year in real estate. We are projected to double
our income this year and anticipate much more rewards in the
future. TB
Discover Who You Were Born To Be - Show
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Everyone is touting “follow your passion, do what you love, work in
your strengths.” This is difficult to do on your own yet many are still
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who they are. The True Colors Personality System is a simple, yet very
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I just read your book. It was heaven
sent as I have been trying to figure out for years what my purpose and
right's life work is. Within hours of picking up your book I was able to
see clearly who I am and what I need to do. Actually, your book
confirmed what I knew already, but was in denial about because of fear
and trying to fit into family and society's expectations.
Julie
No more guessing, no more wandering aimlessly around.
Put direction in your life and put your sights on your perfect career.
Your gifts are clues to the work you were born to do.
What is True Colors
Are you a thinker, always analyzing, like a
GREEN? Do you prefer inspiring people and building their
self-esteem as a BLUE? Are you the
responsible one who is always on time and keeping everyone else on time
like a GOLD? Or do you thrive on
entertaining and persuading people, like an
ORANGE? Take the FREE
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and find out what color you are. True Colors, a personality system, has
been around since 1979 when Don Lowry modeled it as a graphical
presentation of both Keirsey’s Temperament and the Meyers-Briggs Type
Indicator. The True Colors cards are included in the book and you can
carry them around with you to share with friends and family.
About the Author
Carolyn Kalil has been a career counselor at one of California’s
largest community colleges for the past 29 years.
With counseling
over 30,000 people, she realized they were asking much more than “what
college major should I choose or what job am I suited for.” They
were really asking what should I do with my life?
“Up to 1988 I didn’t totally understand what I should
do with my own life, who I was born to be and what I was born to do.
It was the True Colors Personality System that sent me on a journey of
self discovery. My major epiphany came when I saw my true self for
the first time. Until then I had been living the life of a person I was
told I “should be” by my mother. Understanding our differences
totally changed my life. I began to accept myself for who I am. As a
result I saw my own unique gifts and talents that I didn’t know that I
had. From there everything began to fall into place in my life and I
am now doing what I love through my writing, trainings, and seminars.
I am not an exception. I have helped thousands of people discover
their true self and find their own path to success. Now with the
help of my book this is also possible for you.”
What About the Relationships in Your Life
Don’t stop at your career, use the True Colors method to heal
relationships and family. Besides learning just about your self, the book
covers all 4 personality types and their interactions, plus how they are
different from you. Your True Colors will help you predict how you
interact with others, especially in relationships.
You will understand why certain relationships work and others don’t.
Learn to:
Understand the mate you have
Love your children the way they want to be loved
Find a compatible mate
Improve relationships with co-workers
Accept the differences in those unlike you
You’ll see how each color gets their self-esteem in
different ways. There is no right or wrong color combination. One color is
not better than another. We are just different. Accepting these
differences without judgment is key in reducing the stress in our lives,
stress in the workplace and at home. Ms Kalil calls this the “Harmony of
Colors.” Once you understand yourself and others, you’re ready to enjoy
life.
About the Book
Join the tens of thousands of readers who have used this book to
change their lives. It is in use at many colleges and universities
throughout the US and Canada. Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco Systems
and Warner Bros. use this book in their managerial training. It is now the
7th best selling career book in the US.
Learn how to:
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- Discover your unique gifts and talents
Soar with your strengths
Discover your passion
Express your heart and soul in what you do
Increase self-esteem, creating a positive, clear self-image
Become successful in spite of your fears
Some book reviews and reader comments
are listed below.
Best Selling Career Book
Includes set of 4 True Colors Cards
"What an exciting book
to discover meaningful work that satisfies your soul."
JACK CANFIELD
Chicken Soup for the Soul
199 pages, ISBN: 1893320286
Listed as #7 of the top 30 best selling career books in
America on Vocational Biographies website.
Talk about change your life book,...my mom & I finally understand
each other after all these years of yelling, screaming and making each
other wrong, by understanding the colors. My gold father on the other
hand, well, when I was reading about your mother,I
swore you were writing about my father, even my mother agreed. I think my
mother was orange and in denial (what color was that)?
EM Los Angeles
From the
Introduction
...In my early days
as a career counselor, when students would ask me to help them find the
work they should do, I would take them literally. It didn’t take long to
realize they were really asking much deeper questions, such as, Who am I?
Why am I here? What is the purpose of my life? What was I born to do?
Where do I fit?
I just read your book. It was heaven
sent as I have been trying to figure out for years what my purpose and
right's life work is. Within hours of picking up your book I was able to
see clearly who I am and what I need to do. Actually, your book
confirmed what I knew already, but was in denial about because of fear
and trying to fit into family and society's expectations.
Julie
...For as long as I
can remember, I have been able to see the natural potential in others, but
for years I didn’t have a name for it. I was frustrated, because I didn’t
know how to explain to other people what I knew. Still, it was clear to me
that innate qualities in each individual motivated them to think and
behave in particular ways. Everyone has unique and special characteristics
that have nothing to do with one’s race, religion or level of education.
Why is it that
some people have the incredible ability to connect and interact easily
with other people, while many do not have this gift, yet possess
remarkably curious minds that are storehouses for a wealth of information?
Why are some people gung ho for life without worrying how they’re going to
get where they’re going or what will happen when they arrive, while others
seem almost paralyzed without first developing a detailed plan to get from
point A to point B?
As a counselor, I
have discovered a way to show others what these traits are and how to use
them to find their own unique niche that brings them satisfaction in their
work.
After
spending 10 years on a job I had no interest in… Knowing I was better
suited elsewhere, I felt trapped…What should I do? How do I get to the
place I need to go? I saw no light at the end of my tunnel.
After reading "Follow Your True Colors To The Work You Love" not only
was I rejuvenated but inspired to take control over my destiny. The way
the author relates to people and job dissatisfaction was incredible. I
felt she knew me. She was speaking to me personally. I became emotional
because I could feel the author and I felt the author felt me. JW - Los Angeles
...You are about to
embark on an incredibly exciting journey. Through the True Colors process
you will uncover your positive attributes and learn how they already suit
you for work you will love to do. Once you have recognized your true
colors, you’ll understand why some careers are natural extensions of who
you are, while others will never fit — and in fact, might harm your
spiritual and emotional well-being. The final steps in this process are to
help you overcome your fear, define your mission, and set your course for
expressing your true self through a meaningful life’s work
Carolyn Kalil
Thank
you for writing this wonderful book! I recently resigned from my job in
Northern California and returned to Los Angeles... I was so excited
after reading the web page that I bought the book the following Monday.
...Can't express in words what it was like to read about myself. I've been
faking it as a Gold for acceptance in this world and I am really a Blue!
What a revelation! It feels wonderful to say no more of this madness and
begin to drop the mask. Thank You, Thank You!!!!!
Susan
Book Review --
Steven E. Beasley, President, Center for Career
Growth and Development
"The best way I know to raise your self-esteem
is to
do what you love." Carolyn Kalil
Carolyn Kalil has made Don Lowry’s "True Colors" concept easy to
understand and apply. Her new book, "FOLLOW YOUR TRUE COLORS TO THE WORK
YOU LOVE," presents the four personality types, as classified by the "True
Colors Personality System." In four delightful chapters, she tells us what
we are: The blue personality—to love and be loved; the green
personality—knowledge is power; the gold personality—plan it; the orange
personality—where’s the action?
... I liked the fact that Ms. Kalil puts together so many factors
with each type, so that you can understand how to work with each type, and
so as to better understand yourself.
Take the blues, for example. For blue true values that motivate
and drive behavior, we have: authenticity, compassion, creativity,
emotions, empathy, enthusiasm, friendship, harmony, honesty, integrity,
intuition, love, natural potential, optimism, patience, relationships,
sensitivity, tact. Under "Things that cause stress to blues," we find:
disharmony, judgmental people, lack of communication, chaos, injustice,
rigidity, isolation, overly aggressive people, cruelty to children and
animals, being yelled at, being lied to, heartlessness, no hugs,
insensitivity, lack of romance. Under the blue player, we find that we can
count on them to be the harmonizers who force us to look for peaceful
means for settling our conflicts. For career choices suited for blues,
there is coach, counselor, teacher, family lawyer, minister/rabbi, nun,
pediatrician.
I am a "Blue" and I have
felt as I was growing up that I didn't fit in, until I read in print more
of what makes me so unique and where I can best utilize those talents in
the world...TC
The good news is that this is a very easy-to-use guide to
applying the true colors concept to yourself. There is even a list of
famous people of each type in the appendix! Putting it all together with
exercises, priority ranking, diagrams, and work sheets makes this a very
useful tool in choosing one’s career.
Highly recommended.
Book Review --
Neil Baldwin, Career Development Chapter of the
Canadian Guidance & Counseling Association
Let me admit from the outset that I have never been a big fan of True
Colors, summarily dismissing it as a simplified version of the typology
employed by the MBTI. As such you won't be surprised that I was putting
off reading the book, leaving it in a variety of locations around our
house, shuffling it from place to place to make me feel like I was doing
something. My wife, who (for better or worse) has become conversant with
personality typology, picked up the book, read it through within two days,
and said it was great. She passed it on to a friend who also knew her type
and she, too, praised it. So I set bias aside and jumped in to find out
what was so great.
All kidding aside from the subject intro, being a
true "green" I am not afraid of a little challenge as you well know.
When I read "The Green Woman" I got the strange sense that someone had
been following me around making note of my every move. I could be your
ultimate "poster girl-green" (job, relationships, personality). Finally
I am understood!
The majority of this book is not so much about career planning
as it is about understanding the differences between the four colors and
how they interact within one's True Colors profile (primary color,
secondary color, etc.). The text is easy to read, interesting; full of
examples, and can't help but promote a better understanding of temperament
differences. It even gets briefly into True Colors as they relate to
relationships, gift-giving, and other related miscellany. And I think this
is what makes the book good. People put it down having genuinely learned
something about themselves and the others that inhabit their worlds. As
humans, we tend to like that.
As for the finding "work you love" component, while not an in
depth exercise in career planning, it's pretty good too. One of the main
emphases is on understanding your color profile, not just looking at the
primary color. There is an interesting discussion of the distinction
between the color we take on in roles (e.g., work) and the color that is
genuinely our identity. You won't be surprised to know that those two
colors are not always the same. It's important to really understand
yourself in this regard if you are trying to find your life's work. This
book fosters that understanding.
My name
is LW. I wanted to let you know that your book is awesome and it has
changed my life with my friends, family and co-workers. Understanding
their personalities and why they do the things they do are revealed
through your book. It is also a way to reach out to those kids that are in
their shell and figure out what is going on with them. Thank you , thank
you, and thank you!
Follow Your True Colors to work you love also relates one's
color profile to typical talents and values for each color although I took
issue with some of the occupation examples (e.g., airline pilot as a green
career-those I know are oranges and golds). If there's a weakness to the
career choice concept described in this book it is that while it spends
many pages on True Colors and satisfying life's work, it spends hardly any
on the importance of information and research in the process. The whole
thing seems a bit too intuitive to me, but then my "weakest" color is
green so what do you expect from a gold-orange like me!
In concluding this review, I can tell you that not only have I
found a useful book to recommend, but also a new appreciation of True
Colors as a tool for self-understanding and career planning... as long as
one always considers their entire profile of colors not just their one
primary color. Of course, this balance is what we try to emphasize when
using the MBTI, as well, so people don't feel pigeon-holed.
By the way, as an added bonus for the practitioner, the book includes four
photo-quality cards to be used in discovering one's True Colors profile. I
like these better than the "standard" True Colors cards.
Book: Follow Your True Colors To The
Work You Love, $19.95
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