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9/5/2020 12 Comments What are Your Colors?Do you remember this blast from the past? The Year was 1986...We lost Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger crew. Pixar Animation Studios was formed. Out of Africa won Best Picture at the 58th Academy Awards. Paramount Pictures releases Top Gun. Five million people used Hands Across America to fight hunger & homelessness. The New York Mets won 4 games to 3 in the 1986 World Series against the Boston Red Sox. Lady Gaga was born. L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology died. And so did Cary Grant. Robert Palmer told us, "you might as well face it, you're addicted to love." Ferris Bueller took a day off. Da Bears won the Super Bowl. Banarama was your Venus and your fire and Huey Lewis and the News were happy to be stuck with you. We met Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker in Designing Women. And we found what we all want, A Room with a View. What was life like for you that year? That year, I graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in psychology and started grad school with a major in counseling. I remember that the highlight of my weeks that fall were Saturday mornings, because I could sleep in and then make myself pancakes and bacon for breakfast. And I was a definite Cyndi Lauper fan, but back then, I spent a lot of time listening to the Christian contemporary radio station, so it took a while for True Colors to get my attention. Which is funny because these days, it sometimes feels like a theme song for the work I do as a color analyst. 
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Do You Know Your True Colors?I mentioned that True Colors feels like a theme song in some ways, because with color analysis that's really what I do - I help women find their true colors. Your true colors are the set of colors that resonate most and harmonize best with your coloring. And I recommend waiting to get dressed until you know what they are. :) Why is it so important? Because if you don't know what they are, then you aren't telling the whole truth about yourself when you get dressed. And that may create a subtle disconnect with the people you encounter. They will see you and something will be off, though they may not be able to identify what it is. In contrast, your true colors help you tell the story of who you are, and make you more beautiful with them than you could ever be without them. When you're ready to find your true colors, take the color analysis quiz. See you tomorrow! Love, Jeanine
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9/5/2020 07:46:03 am
That was two years before my daughter was born. Hard to believe there was life before children... I would have been working at Montgomery Wards which is now gone. Living at home and hanging out with my friends. Do I miss that time yes, but I would much rather have my children. Now, excuse me as I am off to do the quiz and find out what colors I should wear and why. Then I want to invite me friends to do there so we can compare our colors. 9/5/2020 04:37:48 pm
Oh, I used to order from Montgomery Wards! Neat. Let me know what your color type is.
Amrita
9/5/2020 09:42:54 am
I like your focus on finding our true colours.Wearing them makes us more beautiful sounds like something we should all do more of 9/5/2020 04:38:51 pm
Thanks, Amrita! Yes, I think it's amazing that wearing the right colors can be so powerful. 1986, how I remember seeing the Challenger accident, so devastating. One of the other astronauts, Robert McNair was from Lake City South Carolina, not far from where we live. Another big event that year was when I had my emergency hysterectomy but on a thankful note, there was no cancer. 9/5/2020 04:55:15 pm
Oh, I didn't know he was from there. I remember that day well. The radio was on while I was eating a tuna sandwich and I was about to walk uphill for an afternoon college class. Then, I heard the news on the radio and ran to turn on the TV. We didn't end up having class that afternoon, needless to say. Thank goodness there was no cancer, Martha!!! 9/7/2020 12:25:05 am
In 1986, I was working for a temporary help agency as a clerical type person. Even though I had a master's degree (monster's degree!) in journalism, I could not find work in my career field. I was taking classes in playwriting and Spanish, but I was feeling like a total failure as a journalist and as a human being. I even thought that I was ugly. A year later, I would go to language school in Guatemala, and that changed my life for the better. 9/7/2020 12:36:15 am
That must have been a difficult year! I hear about it so often, that people leave college with a degree and then, can't get work. I was worried about that after college, myself, which is one reason I went on the grad school. After that, I was lucky because I got hired to keep doing the same chemical dependency unit, family counseling job when my internship ended. But once I got a full-time job and then that company laid off a ton of its workers, including me, it took me four long months to get another job. It was very demoralizing! How neat that you were able to take those classes, though, and learn the languages.
vidya
9/7/2020 02:04:58 pm
I was in middle school then and guessing buried deep in books. 9/8/2020 09:21:11 pm
1986, I was a 26 years old single mother of two with my first real bookkeeping job (for a dentist. Also his office manager, billing clerk & receptionist). It’s also when I first realized that I wanted my own bookkeeping business. Boy, that was a long time ago LOL 9/9/2020 12:34:02 am
Oh, that's wonderful! Glad it was confirmed for you. And how neat that you know the year that you decided to become a bookkeeper. I remember that I was 12 when I thought I wanted to be a self-help writer, but a year later, decided I wanted to be a therapist and help people that way. And I did that for over a decade. Leave a Reply. |
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