Color Your Future: Using the Character Code to Enhance Your Life - - Dr. Taylor Hartman

This book is on how to use the strengths and weaknesses of each personality “color” type presented by Dr. Hartman to understand your own inherent strengths and weaknesses. This book helps you examine your motives for doing the things you do and determining if they are “clean” motive or “dirty” motives. This is a recipe book for developing good character and is a must read for all parents and their teenage children as well. Dr.Hartman takes up where Dr. Laura leaves off by showing us how to become a more charactered human being instead of just telling us we should become one!

One should really read this book if you have been unhappy with your “lot” in life or are just plain unhappy with yourself. It answers a lot of questions and is like taking a look in the mirror. It may seem simplistic to break down the human personality into four color groups, but if you read through the book and spend some time on the tables, you will find your core personality. Then things will become much more clear. One whole chapter is spent on valuing oneself and its relevance to your whole being and to self-actualization. Dr. Hartman describes how doing what you love to do is part of valuing yourself. It asks that you not give up what you love. Color Code is a great tool to help you identify your core and secondary personality traits as well as help you identify the personalities of those with whom you interact. Its usefulness also embraces learning how to speak the language of each of the other colors. Add to the gift of Color Code the ability to build your character by overcoming your limitations, and you will have identified the purpose of Color Your Future!

Through the use of his ‘character profile,’ Dr. Taylor Hartman helps you identify personality limitations which may cause ineffectiveness or conflict with others. Clearly defined steps necessary for you to overcome these limitations and become a charactered individual are outlined in an easy-to-read format. Through the use of stories and personal experiences, Dr. Hartman gives examples to help you personally apply these steps to your life. The result is a more congruent, peaceful, and balanced lifestyle with an enhanced capacity to effectively communicate, promote growth in yourself and others, and provide meaningful service.

This text extends the insights of the Color Code into the area of character building.