I'm Blue

I recently scanned through a book called The Color Code: A New Way to See Yourself, Your Relationships and Life. The book has you take a personality test and based on your choices assigns you as either a red, blue, white or yellow and then discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each personality. After taking the test I am most strongly a blue. I thought I would jot down a few of the strengths and limitations of blues because I think it is interesting and surprisingly accurate. The most telling thing was to read about the reds strengths and weaknesses. What I wish I would have known before marriage....

Excerpt taken from book:

"Blues deem it their personal responsibility to serve as the moral watchdogs of society"

Strengths:

• See life as a serious endeavor
• Appreciate beauty and detail
• Stable and dependable
• Sincere and emotionally deep
• Analytical oriented
• High Achiever
• Deep sense of purpose
• Able to enjoy deep and sensitive conversation
• Strong skills at empathizing with others
• Highly disciplined
• Stong goal orientation
• Plans well and follows through
• Excellent behind-the-scenes worker
• Enjoys details and schedules
• Receptive to creative thinking in others
• Loyal forever once a friendship is established
• Genuine concern for friend's well-bring
• Encouraging in times of trouble
• Willing to commit time to a relationship 

Weaknesses:

• Highly emotional
• Smug and self-righteous
• Strong perfection and performance orientation
• Verbally self-abusive
• Tends to lecture or over discuss issues
• Rigid with principles and unwilling to negotiate
• Argues primarily from an emotional perspective
• Strong expectation for others to be sensitive and deep
• Expects others to read her mind and know her feelings
• Easily frustrated by lack of team cooperation
• Expects other to understand her goals and make them priority.
• Feels others are not capable of doing things as well as she can
• Craves security
• Shies away from public exposure and performance
• Establishes high and unrealistic goals for self and others
• Insecure about other's acceptance or approval
• Feels rejected easily
• Critical of friends priniciples are activities if not similar
• Expects friends to maintain strong loyalty
• Wishes friends would communicate more

Much of this is pretty true about me!