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True Colors Independent Living

True Colors Independent Living. What is True Colors? A career finding technique that helps you: –Discover your true talents –Create a positive, clear

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Page 1: True Colors Independent Living. What is True Colors? A career finding technique that helps you: –Discover your true talents –Create a positive, clear

True Colors

Independent Living

Page 2: True Colors Independent Living. What is True Colors? A career finding technique that helps you: –Discover your true talents –Create a positive, clear

What is True Colors?

• A career finding technique that helps you:– Discover your true talents– Create a positive, clear self-image– Overcome fears that block success – Maximize your unique strengths– Determine your ideal career

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Finding Your True Colors

• Look at the four True Colors cards• Analyze the pictures on the front and

read the words on the back• Each card represents a part of your

personality• Set aside the card that best captures

who you are not who you wish to be!• Next select the card that is least like

you

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Finding Your True Colors

• Rank in order the other two cards so that the four color cards are arranged in order from most like you to least like you.

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What it all means

• Your first color represents the characteristics that you relate to most strongly. These are your strengths

• Your second color will influence how you go about expressing your first color.

• You will see less of yourself in the third and fourth colors. Your fourth color representing weaknesses or things you do not do well.

• The combination of your first two colors will have a big impact on your career decisions.

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Extroversion vs. Introversion

• Extroverts: People who are very outgoing, love talking to people and being out in public. – Tend to be blues and oranges

• Introverts: People who don’t like to talk much and like to be alone. – Tend to be golds and greens

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Self Esteem

• Finding a career that fits your identity (instead of trying to fit your identity into a job) will allow you to express your true self and build your self esteem.

• If you choose a career path that doesn’t fit your identity you feel as if you don’t fit in and don’t live up to your full potential.

• The best way to raise your self esteem is to DO WHAT YOU LOVE!!!!!

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Why some people hate their jobs…..

• They take a career they stumble into rather than using their talents

• They are working too hard because their job duties are requiring them to use their weaknesses more than their strengths.

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What Greens need to be happy and have positive self

esteem• Need to feel competent and in

control.

• Solving complex problems and receiving recognition.

• Acquiring and controlling knowledge

• What TV shows do you think they watch?

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What Blues need to be happy and have positive self esteem

• Need to feel authentic or true to themselves.

• Life dream is to have a meaningful life and live in harmony.

• Need to have meaningful relationships.

• What TV shows do you think Blues like?

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What Oranges need to be happy and have positive self

esteem• Need to be spontaneous and impulsive.• Do things for the joy of doing them.• Highly skilled at a lot of things• Master negotiators• Always looking for an adventure. • What TV shows do you think they enjoy?

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What Golds need to be happy and have positive self esteem

• Need to feel responsible and belong to a social unit.

• Cherish traditions and order in the home. • Parental by nature, want to maintain order

in the house and make sure everyone is following rules.

• What TV shows do you think they enjoy?

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Self Actualization

• Self actualization is the state of being, not blocked or full of fear, where life is lived naturally, happily and freely as we achieve our goals and reach our potential.

• Ultimate goal is to reach self actualization. When you reach this point you meet your full potential.