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Issue #1 October 2008

In this issue:

What’s New at Color Code:

The FREE version of the Color Code Personality Test is back online!
Watch for our “Subscriber Appreciation” email next week!

Feature Article by Taylor Hartman, PhD:

10 Steps to a Great Life: Step 1 – Increase Your Self-Awareness

Upcoming Training & Events:

No-Cost Trainer Certification Course

We Recommend:

The People Code, by Taylor Hartman, PhD

At Your Service!:

How Can We Help You Improve Your Life?

Please add insights@colorcode.com to your whitelist or address book in your e-mail program so you have no trouble receiving future issues!

What’s New at Color Code

There is a lot of great news that we would like to share with you…but, we’ll pace ourselves a little so you don’t get overwhelmed. :-)

We’ll start with two things this month that are sure to get you excited:

The free version of the Color Code Personality Test is back online.

That’s right! Soon after launching our new website, http://www.colorcode.com, the Color Code Personality Assessment with Basic Analysis was only available for $5.95. We are pleased to announce that we are no longer charging for the Basic Analysis.

Please tell your friends and family that now is the time for them to go online and take the Color Code Personality Test for free once again!

The address to our new website is http://www.colorcode.com. Enjoy!

We are going to give all of our newsletter subscribers a VERY SPECIAL GIFT next Tuesday.

Please watch your inbox on Tuesday, October 28, because we are going to email all of our subscribers something extremely special (and yes, it will be free). Our gift to you will help you take a giant leap forward on the path to personal development.

Consider it our way of telling you how much we appreciate our association with you, and how much we believe in your ability to succeed in life.

Cheers!

Feature Article

10 Steps to a Great Life! By Taylor Hartman, PhD

Introduction

When I decided to become a psychologist 35 years ago, all I wanted to do was help people live better lives. I would have traveled anywhere to begin my practice. Throughout my professional life, I have come to realize that most people don’t find life to be easy. They struggle just to survive and would welcome a better map on how to navigate life if they could find it—if they could trust it.

I have seen the difference my work makes when people apply the principles I teach. They are literally transformed in their thinking and their behavior in a way that changes their quality of life. “Life is difficult,” as Scott Peck once wrote so eloquently in his remarkable book, The Road Less Traveled. And it is! But it can also be exciting, abundant, and rewarding.

When I look at a person today, after so many years of working with individuals, I can see immediately whether his or her life makes sense or not. It’s not any different for me with mental health than it is for a fitness trainer who first engages a client at the gym. There are certain clues you look for in assessing life fitness that always give an accurate reading on whether or not someone makes sense.

It’s one thing if someone has no interest in figuring life out. It’s something all together more tragic when that person wants to understand his or her human condition but lacks a method to do so. I am committed to giving you what I spent over 35 years developing to give my patients. If you will apply these principles, I promise you success in living a more abundant life. Try me. Commit to a period of 6 months and apply the principles I teach you. You will be amazed at your results. And what we are talking about here are results—not nice words, but legitimate evidence that your life is better.

We love the top ten lists of late night TV, so we’ll begin with my top ten list of what makes for a great life. Once you have learned and applied my ten strategies to your everyday life, you will never see yourself or others the same again. Your life will be forever changed! And it all begins by taking the Color Code Personality Test. This profile will tell you more about who you were innately born to be than any other single document you will ever read. If you have not yet taken the personality test, I recommend that you take it now before you begin.

Step 1: Increase Your Self-Awareness

At the height of Greek civilization, Socrates became deeply concerned about the superficiality of his people. Despite knowing life at a loftiness never before experienced by mankind, Socrates saw the masses living in ignorance and missing the power of self-awareness. He said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” It’s true! Perhaps the most significant step people can take is to look inside and figure out what they were born to become. Knowing yourself gives you important clues as to what will matter in your life.

Your core color is far more than simply a set of behavioral traits, which other personality tests could provide you. It takes you to your “driving core motive” in life. It tells you what matters most to you. Your driving core motive is like breathing. Without it, you will never feel truly alive. When you discover your driving core motive, it feels like coming home—safe, comfortable, and legitimate.

All of your life, people will try to tell you that you must be someone other than who you were born to be. The foundation of a healthy life is built by knowing yourself at your very core. You can add any dimension you like once your driving core motive is established. Being true to yourself means you put your foundation in place (driving core motive) and then add structure to it.

What did the Color Code Personality Test tell you about your driving core motive? Are you driven by Power (Red), Intimacy (Blue), Peace (White), or Fun (Yellow)? You will find that this awareness is momentous in establishing a firm foundation for your life. If your driving core motive is Fun (Yellow) but you have been challenged by your parents to make it Power (Red), you are headed for a miserable life. You can never build a legitimate life on a lie. You must lay a solid foundation and forever nurture it—always value and commit to it. Do not take this awareness lightly.

People often gloss over this powerful piece of self-awareness with comments like “That’s nice to know,” when they should be pondering much more genuinely how they can engage and support their driving core motive such that their life makes sense and feels congruent.

Study what your driving core motive means. Do things every day to support what makes you happy and feel personally rewarded. Do not take your driving core motive for granted. This is your life foundation and something you must be vigilant about before anything else. People will often negate you or dismiss your relevance when they don’t understand the significance of who you really are at your core. Stand firm in protecting what is at your core essence because it frees you to be your best self.

The healthiest people always find time to do what makes them happy, and they know what makes them happy. Your Color Code results tell you what makes you happy. Now, commit to doing something everyday that fits your driving core motive. If you refuse to do so, you are sentencing yourself to a limited life. Don’t wait for others to meet your core expectations. That is your job. It’s your life—not theirs. Now go wrap your arms around it—examine it—embrace it—live it limitlessly!

The first step in life is to “get you.” Get your strengths, limitations, gifts, inner struggles. Understand your driving core motive and match it with doing things every day that fit its expectations. This is your foundation. Everyday do things that engage, support, and develop your driving core motive. Everything else will make more sense if you remain true to your personal foundation.

Watch for steps two through ten in upcoming issues of the Color Code Insights newsletter.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Taylor Hartman is the critically acclaimed author of The Color Code: A New Way to See Yourself, Your Relationships, and Life (now titled The People Code ) and creator of the Color Code Personality Profile. He has a PhD in Human Behavior and Leadership.

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR E-ZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you use it in its entirety (including the author bio) and include this complete statement with it:
Color Code International is a world-class training organization that utilizes The Color Code Personality Test to help people increase their self-awareness and their ability to be effective with others. Color Code is the only personality assessment that works from the inside out to teach WHY people do what they do. Try it for free at http://www.colorcode.com/.

Upcoming Training & Events

Get certified to train the Color Code for no training cost!

November 11–13, 2008, in Salt Lake City, UT

(9 Seats Left)

We have not hosted a Train-the-Trainer Certification Course for the Color Code Interpersonal Skills Workshop in over two years. Come join us for this very special event and enjoy more benefits than we have ever offered trainers before!

If you have ever thought about becoming certified to teach the Color Code, or would like to offer Color Code training to your employees at a low cost, join us in Salt Lake City on November 11–13, 2008 for a unique pilot program.

We have retooled our certification program in a way that allows trainers the opportunities of both bringing fresh, new content to their organizations AND of earning additional income in a full- or part-time capacity.

We are currently committed to offering this program ONE TIME ONLY for evaluation purposes. Take a look at some of the changes we’re featuring in this special “Pilot Program”:

No training fees to become certified!
No reporting requirements!
No annual renewal fees!
No royalty fees!

This pilot program is available for only up to 25 participants. We currently have 9 seats left, which will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

An informative video containing all of the details on how the program works can be viewed on the following webpage: http://www.colorcode.com/t3/pilot/.

There is also a reservation form on that page that will allow you to TENTATIVELY reserve your spot.

Again, please visit http://www.colorcode.com/t3/pilot/ for details.

We Recommend

Long-time fans of the Color Code and newbies alike will be excited to learn that The Color Code has been re-released! With a new title, new cover, and plenty of new content, The Color Code has received a makeover after more than 25 years on the market. People Code Book Cover

Now titled The People Code, the book contains all the insight and information you loved in The Color Code, plus more! New content includes what makes each color “hot” or not, business and education applications, answers to commonly asked Color Code questions, and numerous “real-life” examples from Dr. Hartman’s personal experience. Plus, it now has a full index for easy reference.

Dr. Hartman’s concept of “driving core motive” is the easiest and most accurate way to understand yourself and others. The key to improving yourself and your relationships is in knowing why you do what you do and why others do what they do. The People Code contains the answers to those questions. Reading it will give you valuable insight into yourself and those you interact with on a day-to-day basis.

The People Code is available for purchase HERE. If you order your copy by November 15, you’ll receive two great benefits: We’ll automatically discount the price of the book to $10.75. (That’s a 33% discount!) We will email you a link to of one of Dr. Hartman’s keynote speeches on how to use the Color Code to improve your relationships. You will be able to listen to it online or download it as an MP3. (This product is a $29 value).

At Your Service!

How can we help you?

As an experienced training and consulting partner, Color Code International specializes in creating people-centric solutions that will positively impact the bottom line of your organization. We assist clients to meet their strategic goals by helping them maximize the talent of their workforce in several measurable areas.

These are the four most commonly requested services provided by Color Code International:

Workshops and Seminars
Consulting and Coaching
Train-the-Trainer Certification
Keynote Speeches

Our areas of expertise include:

Personality Profiling
The Color Code Interpersonal Skills Workshop
The Sales Code (Sales Effectiveness Training)
Charactered Leadership
Teambuilding
Conflict Resolution
and more…

Call us today at 1.866.4.MOTIVE to see how we might be able to help your organization.

You are receiving this newsletter because you have taken the online version of the Color Code Personality Test, purchased a product, attended an event, or subscribed to one of our Color Code newsletters through www.thecolorcode.com, www.colorcode.com, or www.hartmancommunications.com. You can unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of the page.

We will never release, sell, or otherwise give your email address to any unauthorized third party or organization. You will receive only email messages from us that contain requested information, new monthly articles, or announcements of new services.

We would love to hear from you and receive your feedback at any time. The easiest way to contact us via email is through support@colorcode.com. You can also call us toll-free at 1.866.4.MOTIVE (1.866.466.8483), or directly at 801.531.1816.


	ColorCode.com» About Personality Test
	Issue #1 October 2008
In this issue: What’s New at Color Code: The FREE version of the Color Code Personality Test is back online! Watch for our “Subscriber Appreciation” email next week! Feature Article by Taylor Hartman, PhD: 10 Steps to a Great Life: Step 1 – Increase Your Self-Awareness Upcoming Training & Events: No-Cost Trainer Certification Course We Recommend: The People Code, by Taylor Hartman, PhD At Your Service!: How Can We Help You Improve Your Life? Please add insights@colorcode.com to your whitelist or address book in your e-mail program so you have no trouble receiving future issues! What’s New at Color Code There is a lot of great news that we would like to share with you…but, we’ll pace ourselves a little so you don’t get overwhelmed. :-) We’ll start with two things this month that are sure to get you excited: The free version of the Color Code Personality Test is back online. That’s right! Soon after launching our new website, http://www.colorcode.com, the Color Code Personality Assessment with Basic Analysis was only available for $5.95. We are pleased to announce that we are no longer charging for the Basic Analysis. Please tell your friends and family that now is the time for them to go online and take the Color Code Personality Test for free once again! The address to our new website is http://www.colorcode.com. Enjoy! We are going to give all of our newsletter subscribers a VERY SPECIAL GIFT next Tuesday. Please watch your inbox on Tuesday, October 28, because we are going to email all of our subscribers something extremely special (and yes, it will be free). Our gift to you will help you take a giant leap forward on the path to personal development. Consider it our way of telling you how much we appreciate our association with you, and how much we believe in your ability to succeed in life. Cheers! Feature Article 10 Steps to a Great Life! By Taylor Hartman, PhD Introduction When I decided to become a psychologist 35 years ago, all I wanted to do was help people live better lives. I would have traveled anywhere to begin my practice. Throughout my professional life, I have come to realize that most people don’t find life to be easy. They struggle just to survive and would welcome a better map on how to navigate life if they could find it—if they could trust it. I have seen the difference my work makes when people apply the principles I teach. They are literally transformed in their thinking and their behavior in a way that changes their quality of life. “Life is difficult,” as Scott Peck once wrote so eloquently in his remarkable book, The Road Less Traveled. And it is! But it can also be exciting, abundant, and rewarding. When I look at a person today, after so many years of working with individuals, I can see immediately whether his or her life makes sense or not. It’s not any different for me with mental health than it is for a fitness trainer who first engages a client at the gym. There are certain clues you look for in assessing life fitness that always give an accurate reading on whether or not someone makes sense. It’s one thing if someone has no interest in figuring life out. It’s something all together more tragic when that person wants to understand his or her human condition but lacks a method to do so. I am committed to giving you what I spent over 35 years developing to give my patients. If you will apply these principles, I promise you success in living a more abundant life. Try me. Commit to a period of 6 months and apply the principles I teach you. You will be amazed at your results. And what we are talking about here are results—not nice words, but legitimate evidence that your life is better. We love the top ten lists of late night TV, so we’ll begin with my top ten list of what makes for a great life. Once you have learned and applied my ten strategies to your everyday life, you will never see yourself or others the same again. Your life will be forever changed! And it all begins by taking the Color Code Personality Test. This profile will tell you more about who you were innately born to be than any other single document you will ever read. If you have not yet taken the personality test, I recommend that you take it now before you begin. Step 1: Increase Your Self-Awareness At the height of Greek civilization, Socrates became deeply concerned about the superficiality of his people. Despite knowing life at a loftiness never before experienced by mankind, Socrates saw the masses living in ignorance and missing the power of self-awareness. He said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” It’s true! Perhaps the most significant step people can take is to look inside and figure out what they were born to become. Knowing yourself gives you important clues as to what will matter in your life. Your core color is far more than simply a set of behavioral traits, which other personality tests could provide you. It takes you to your “driving core motive” in life. It tells you what matters most to you. Your driving core motive is like breathing. Without it, you will never feel truly alive. When you discover your driving core motive, it feels like coming home—safe, comfortable, and legitimate. All of your life, people will try to tell you that you must be someone other than who you were born to be. The foundation of a healthy life is built by knowing yourself at your very core. You can add any dimension you like once your driving core motive is established. Being true to yourself means you put your foundation in place (driving core motive) and then add structure to it. What did the Color Code Personality Test tell you about your driving core motive? Are you driven by Power (Red), Intimacy (Blue), Peace (White), or Fun (Yellow)? You will find that this awareness is momentous in establishing a firm foundation for your life. If your driving core motive is Fun (Yellow) but you have been challenged by your parents to make it Power (Red), you are headed for a miserable life. You can never build a legitimate life on a lie. You must lay a solid foundation and forever nurture it—always value and commit to it. Do not take this awareness lightly. People often gloss over this powerful piece of self-awareness with comments like “That’s nice to know,” when they should be pondering much more genuinely how they can engage and support their driving core motive such that their life makes sense and feels congruent. Study what your driving core motive means. Do things every day to support what makes you happy and feel personally rewarded. Do not take your driving core motive for granted. This is your life foundation and something you must be vigilant about before anything else. People will often negate you or dismiss your relevance when they don’t understand the significance of who you really are at your core. Stand firm in protecting what is at your core essence because it frees you to be your best self. The healthiest people always find time to do what makes them happy, and they know what makes them happy. Your Color Code results tell you what makes you happy. Now, commit to doing something everyday that fits your driving core motive. If you refuse to do so, you are sentencing yourself to a limited life. Don’t wait for others to meet your core expectations. That is your job. It’s your life—not theirs. Now go wrap your arms around it—examine it—embrace it—live it limitlessly! The first step in life is to “get you.” Get your strengths, limitations, gifts, inner struggles. Understand your driving core motive and match it with doing things every day that fit its expectations. This is your foundation. Everyday do things that engage, support, and develop your driving core motive. Everything else will make more sense if you remain true to your personal foundation. Watch for steps two through ten in upcoming issues of the Color Code Insights newsletter. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Taylor Hartman is the critically acclaimed author of The Color Code: A New Way to See Yourself, Your Relationships, and Life (now titled The People Code ) and creator of the Color Code Personality Profile. He has a PhD in Human Behavior and Leadership. WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR E-ZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you use it in its entirety (including the author bio) and include this complete statement with it: Color Code International is a world-class training organization that utilizes The Color Code Personality Test to help people increase their self-awareness and their ability to be effective with others. Color Code is the only personality assessment that works from the inside out to teach WHY people do what they do. Try it for free at http://www.colorcode.com/. Upcoming Training & Events Get certified to train the Color Code for no training cost! November 11–13, 2008, in Salt Lake City, UT (9 Seats Left) We have not hosted a Train-the-Trainer Certification Course for the Color Code Interpersonal Skills Workshop in over two years. Come join us for this very special event and enjoy more benefits than we have ever offered trainers before! If you have ever thought about becoming certified to teach the Color Code, or would like to offer Color Code training to your employees at a low cost, join us in Salt Lake City on November 11–13, 2008 for a unique pilot program. We have retooled our certification program in a way that allows trainers the opportunities of both bringing fresh, new content to their organizations AND of earning additional income in a full- or part-time capacity. We are currently committed to offering this program ONE TIME ONLY for evaluation purposes. Take a look at some of the changes we’re featuring in this special “Pilot Program”: No training fees to become certified! No reporting requirements! No annual renewal fees! No royalty fees! This pilot program is available for only up to 25 participants. We currently have 9 seats left, which will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. An informative video containing all of the details on how the program works can be viewed on the following webpage: http://www.colorcode.com/t3/pilot/. There is also a reservation form on that page that will allow you to TENTATIVELY reserve your spot. Again, please visit http://www.colorcode.com/t3/pilot/ for details. We Recommend Long-time fans of the Color Code and newbies alike will be excited to learn that The Color Code has been re-released! With a new title, new cover, and plenty of new content, The Color Code has received a makeover after more than 25 years on the market. Now titled The People Code, the book contains all the insight and information you loved in The Color Code, plus more! New content includes what makes each color “hot” or not, business and education applications, answers to commonly asked Color Code questions, and numerous “real-life” examples from Dr. Hartman’s personal experience. Plus, it now has a full index for easy reference. Dr. Hartman’s concept of “driving core motive” is the easiest and most accurate way to understand yourself and others. The key to improving yourself and your relationships is in knowing why you do what you do and why others do what they do. The People Code contains the answers to those questions. Reading it will give you valuable insight into yourself and those you interact with on a day-to-day basis. The People Code is available for purchase HERE. If you order your copy by November 15, you’ll receive two great benefits: We’ll automatically discount the price of the book to $10.75. (That’s a 33% discount!) We will email you a link to of one of Dr. Hartman’s keynote speeches on how to use the Color Code to improve your relationships. You will be able to listen to it online or download it as an MP3. (This product is a $29 value). At Your Service! How can we help you? As an experienced training and consulting partner, Color Code International specializes in creating people-centric solutions that will positively impact the bottom line of your organization. We assist clients to meet their strategic goals by helping them maximize the talent of their workforce in several measurable areas. These are the four most commonly requested services provided by Color Code International: Workshops and Seminars Consulting and Coaching Train-the-Trainer Certification Keynote Speeches Our areas of expertise include: Personality Profiling The Color Code Interpersonal Skills Workshop The Sales Code (Sales Effectiveness Training) Charactered Leadership Teambuilding Conflict Resolution and more… Call us today at 1.866.4.MOTIVE to see how we might be able to help your organization.
The Color Code Insights Newsletter is published by Color Code International, a subsidiary of Novus, LLC Color Code International 145 W. Crystal Ave. Salt Lake City, UT 84115 1.866.4.MOTIVE http://www.colorcode.com
You are receiving this newsletter because you have taken the online version of the Color Code Personality Test, purchased a product, attended an event, or subscribed to one of our Color Code newsletters through www.thecolorcode.com, www.colorcode.com, or www.hartmancommunications.com. You can unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of the page. We will never release, sell, or otherwise give your email address to any unauthorized third party or organization. You will receive only email messages from us that contain requested information, new monthly articles, or announcements of new services. We would love to hear from you and receive your feedback at any time. The easiest way to contact us via email is through support@colorcode.com. You can also call us toll-free at 1.866.4.MOTIVE (1.866.466.8483), or directly at 801.531.1816.