Assessing Your Colors

Living Your Colors: Practical Wisdom for Life, Love, Work and Play
by Tom Maddron

Discover Your True Personality and Promising Relationships Through the Secrets of the Color Guide

Practical Wisdom for Life, Love, Work, and Play

Gold, Blue, Orange, and Green... Find out what these colors reveal about you and your most intimate relationships.

The key to your secret self is just an easy quiz away. Take the Color Test to identify your dominant color and open the door to amazing new insights about how you handle work, family, and romance. Based on a synergistic combination of ancient wisdom and modern psychology, Living Your Colors is a fun and accurate guide that will help you understand yourself and those around you.

Discover:

• Your color's hidden talents

• Your color's most promising matches for lasting love

• Your color's best career choices (over 100 top jobs discussed)

• The temptations your color can't resist

• Your color's leadership style and how you best influence others

• Your color's strengths, habits, likes, and dislikes

• Your color's parenting style and its impact on your child's color

• What you can learn from each of the other colors.

Gain new insights that will help you live better every day, in every way, with... Living Your Colors

Welcome! This is a book about you ... and about me. This is a book about personality styles. It is based on ancient traditional wisdom and also on modern research. The human patterns it reveals are natural, positive, and valuable. When you have assessed your own personality style and read about the styles of the important people in your life, you will have a new understanding and appreciation of the remarkable balance and harmony that is possible in human relationships. There are no wrong answers in your personal assessment. All the "Colors" are equally valuable and important.So enjoy! Celebrate the richness of human differences.

A "COLORS" QUIZ

Below you will find a questionnaire for determining your "Colors" profile. As you fill out the questionnaire, set aside what you've been told to be like and try to think of yourself as you are when you're most comfortable and natural.

Of course, we all have some of all these qualities, and they may come out more strongly at different times. For purposes of this quiz, however,try to look beyond specific situations, set aside what others think you "should" be like, look past the demands of your job, and forget for the moment about the requirements of your role in life. Just be yourself as you most naturally and comfortably are. Please note: Extra assessment sheets are provided at the back of the book.

Directions

In each of the 10 items,

• Put a 4 by the set of words that seems to describe you best.

• Put a 3 by the set of words that describes you second best.

• Put a 2 by the set of words that describes you third best.

• Put a 1 by the set of words that seems the least like you.

When you have completed the 10 items,

• Total the a's. Enter the a total beside "Gold" in the spaces provided at the bottom of the page.

• Total the b's. Enter the b total beside "Blue" in the spaces provided at the bottom of the page.

• Total the c's. Enter the c total beside "Green" in the spaces provided at the bottom of the page.

• Total the d's. Enter the d total beside "Orange" in the spaces provided at the bottom of the page.

Your highest totals indicate the Colors that you chose as being most like you in the quiz. Some people find that one or two Colors are really strong and the others very weak. Some people find that all four Colors are about equal in strength.

As you read on through the book, you may find changes in your sense of which Colors best describe you. You may feel that the relative weight of the Colors in your life is different than you thought or even than the quiz might suggest. Remember, you are always the best judge of what is right for you.

A Colors Quiz:

Rank the four sets of words in each item,4, 3, 2, or 1 according to how well they describe you.(4 is most like you.)

1.	a.	___________	solid, steady, careful
	b.	___________	feeling, sympathetic, kind
	c.	___________	cool, clever, independent
	d.	___________	lively, witty, energetic
2.	a.	___________	reasonable, moral, hardworking
	b.	___________	sensitive, sincere, caring
	c.	___________	logical, abstract, moral
	d.	___________	skillful, playful, fun-loving
3.	a.	___________	dependable, faithful, devoted
	b.	___________	close, personal, involved
	c.	___________	curious, scientific, thoughtful
	d.	___________	daring, energetic, brave
4.	a.	___________	reliable, organized, serious
	b.	___________	peaceful, harmonious, warm
	c.	___________	impatient, perfectionist, heady
	d.	___________	here-and-now, impulsive, active
5.	a.	___________	consistent, structured, planned
	b.	___________	meaningful, spiritual, inspired
	c.	___________	analyzing, testing, model making
	d.	___________	high impact, persuasive, generous
6.	a.	___________	sane, faithful, supportive
	b.	___________	poetic, musical, artistic
	c.	___________	theoretical, studious, principled
	d.	___________	performing, playing, creating
7.	a.	___________	commit, follow through, persist
	b.	___________	communicate, encourage, nurture
	c.	___________	inform, discuss, question
	d.	___________	energize, compete, engage
8.	a.	___________	conserve, maintain, protect
	b.	___________	inspire, understand, appreciate
	c.	___________	design, invent, construct
	d.	___________	promote, excite, activate
9.	a.	___________	value, honor, provide
	b.	___________	share, connect, express
	c.	___________	respect, stimulate, dialogue
	d.	___________	touch, pleasure, surprise
10.	a.	___________	traditional, loyal, conservative
	b.	___________	belonging, involved, cooperative
	c.	___________	skeptical, nonconforming, fair
	d.	___________	free, independent, rebellious

Totals

a. Gold _____

b. Blue_____

c. Green_____

d. Orange_____

You'll have to read the book to find the answers to THE COLORS IN A NUTSHELL.

Copyright © 1995,,2002 by Thomas Maddron

About the Author

Tom Maddron lives with his wife Peggy in the coastal town of North Bend, Oregon.