Who Are You Mixing It With?

Who Are You Mixing It With?

by: Julie Plenty

I talk and write a lot about Life Design – creating and sculpting a life that is fulfilling for you. It is about shaping your personal landscape and environment.

Part of that environment involves being conscious of who you mix with and their effect on you. Beware of mixing with people who are consistently negative and critical, not only of themselves, but of others and their ideas.

It’s okay to vent and get things off your chest occasionally, but the Value Vampires have turned this into a fine art! They planted seeds of doubt in your mind and then you started to water them! Don’t tell them your hopes, aims, ambitions or goals too early, before they’ve had time to develop; they could kill it in infancy!

The Value Vampires are constantly whining and holding pity parties with anyone who is not aware enough to decline the invitation! They put you and your ideas down and typically ask questions like: ขwhy do you want to do that for?ข (which is really a negative judgement in disguise). Understand that when they do they often have a hidden, often unconscious agenda or a low opinion of themselves and their abilities.

Value Vampires drain you – a night out with them leaves you with a nasty taste in your mouth and normally feeling much worse about things. As you begin to make changes in your life, then you’ll probably find yourself attracted to different kinds of people and will not want to conduct your relationships, friendships with them anymore – and they’ll either change or leave your life.

How can you start to change this?

(i) Focus on building a positive support network – rather than seeking to avoid the Value Vampires. You’ll start from a more productive mindset and begin to think about who you want to be with and why.

(ii) You are what you attract. If you’re constantly surrounded by and mixing with those who have a consistently negative approach to life, then it’s very easy to discover who the biggest Value Vampire is – look in the mirror!

Develop a more positive and proactive approach within yourself and you’ll find that you are cultivating more positive and attractive relationships.

Copyright 2004 Julie Plenty

About The Author

Julie Plenty is a Personal and Business Coach who specialises in coaching self employed creative professionals to live more creative, fulfilled lives. To sign up for the Life Design newsletter visit: http://www.selfhelppersonaldevelopment.com

This article was posted on February 25, 2004

by Julie Plenty

Extracting Color Functions

Extracting Color Functions

by: Maricon Williams

Colors are as powerful as words. It can communicate though without the use of words. It can be as welcoming as a smile yet can be rude as a smirk. We have different perceptions about colors. They can tend to affect our emotions, memories, imagination especially our vision. Designers often neglect the importance of choosing the right colors. As a result, they’re not getting what they are supposed to get. The viewer’s attention is limited. They can also tend to be impatient. Thus, it is their duty to design not just a good design but a design with the right color scheme which makes it spectacular.

Advertisers and manufacturers on the other hand, must give enough attention to other factors in connection with colors. First is demographics. The market of a particular service may be composed of the young or the adult or simply the elderly. The younger the audience is the more essential the color message should be. Children want neon colors – bright, vivid, trendy and hot. Teenagers like diversities thus they can settle to any kind of color like pastel, neon and solid colors. Adults, on the other hand want solid and formal colors. But if your audience is general then you can be safe with the conventional colors. Colors greatly affect our moods. Warm colors like orange and red make us feel secured and safe. Cool colors like green and blue create a relaxed atmosphere. Now you will no longer be surprised why red is a color which is widely used. This is because warm colors grab attention instantly.

Your choice of color must be linked with gender, ethnic and cultural inclination of your target audience. In China, you wear white when you are mourning however in North America it is used to connote snow, youth and is the color of bridal gowns. Caucasians color for power is red while Hispanic’s blue. We are living in a diverse world thus we have to extract the meaning of every color in relation to every one.

The second factor to consider is technology. It was predicted that the colors bronze, copper and metallic will make it as a ‘high tech’ color. They say these colors are attractive and fresh to the eyes thus may be appealing.

To give you a backgrounder on colors, primary colors include red, blue and yellow. They are pure colors. If you mix one to another the colors produced are called secondary colors. Mixing a primary to a secondary color produces tertiary colors. Complementary colors are those found directly across from one another on the color wheel. These colors came from the scientific palette. Artistic palette of colors, on the other hand, includes additive colors which include red, green and blue. Mixing them in equal quantities produces white. Mixing two of them produces cyan, magenta and yellow, also called the subtractive colors. This system of colors is also called the CMYK where K indicates black.

In order to make the color function, these color basics can help you extract the function that’s in them. You got to find it to experience the power.

About The Author

Maricon Williams

I love reading. Give me a book and Iกll finish it in one sitting. Reading is the chance to be transported to a different world and so is writing. Iกm more enthusiastic about writing however, since you can relay your ideas to someone else. I can only imagine that feeling when I hear a complete stranger talking about my ideas which read on an article somewhere. To relay my message to as many people is the same as touching people with music. Only mineกs less harmonic. I try to make up for it with the color I bring with words. And most of the time, it’s more than enough.

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This article was posted on April 25

by Maricon Williams