A green personality

In an earlier article I wrote about the challenges I seem to have being a blue personality. I would like to continue writing on the topic of personality colors in this article also. In this article I would like to write about the fascinating "green personality". But before I start, I want everyone to understand that even though a person has a major "personality color"' each person has a little bit of every color in their whole being. At different times of a person's life, different colors may become dominant, this is also true in different situations. Everyone can be every color at various times, if they so chose to be , but the dominant personality color is the one that the person choses to be most often and is happiest being that way.

Recently I have had the privilege of interviewing a green personality (Bob Bassett) for the purpose of this blog. I have tried to compare his thinking process to mine, so I can better understand his thought processing of various situations , especially when it comes to network marketing and business.

I judiciously took notes on our conversation. Now I find myself with the task of converting my notes and impressions into a coherent article. I was very fascinated with how detail oriented Bob's explanations and answers to my questions were.

I asked him a number of questions which he gladly answered. At some points in the conversation I really do not know who was in control of the interview. I would ask a question and Bob would just take off from there. He was very analytical about what he was telling me. Bob is happy with his green view of the world. In my mind this is a good outlook. To me, this means he is happy being who he is and it would not matter what color you label him as, this is who Bob is comfortable being. Being labeled a certain color did not impress him or offend him, it just was.

As we talked on, Bob mentioned how he preferred for things to make sense. He did not like the hype/bull /drama that some people insist on bringing into life. He much preferred the straight forward approach to all aspects of life, both business and personal.

Having a major problem with staying focused on a project, I was extremely interested in his method of staying on a project til completion, and was amazed at the simplicity of his approach.
Bob indicated that he was personally a very visual person and many times created graphs and diagrams to organize his thoughts. He also planned ahead for interruptions, where he scheduled time with his wife, Anna Bassett(who also is his business partner and a yellow personality) to do certain activities while he did others. I learned that using visual prompts such as a large desk top calender to write on and a special computer program that audibly cued him of upcoming appointments was another great device both Bob and Anna used to remind themselves of appointments.

I have a terrible time about goals, both setting them and achieving them, so naturally this was one of my concerns when we talked, Bob's reply opened my eyes to how I (a blue) was approaching goals and how he (a green) approached goals. Bob and Anna's idea about goals is to "set reasonable goals to be reached in a reasonable length of time." I definitely think they might be on to something with this. I seem to set these outrageous goals that I want to accomplish immediately, and then wonder why I get discouraged and give up when I don't reach them in the time frame I have set for myself.

Talking to the "green"Bob Bassett, I learned quite a number of things. All of it pretty much boils down to the 4 words he said toward the end of our conversation...Work Smart, Not Hard. I like this idea also.

There are so many things here to take note of. I really appreciate the time and energy that was so freely extended to me for the purpose of this article. I have learned a lot from a very strong green personality. I hope I will be able to incorporate some of these lessons into my future mentoring.

I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Bob and Anna Bassett of MentoringForFree. Without their generous offer of time and information this article could not have been possible. For more
information on Bob and Anna Bassett, you may view blogs written by them at http://togethertothetop.com