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@ YellowSeeds 🌱💛
2025-06-14 12:15:20This question is an invitation to explore your internal congruence in those actions because this is key to show up as a Whole Self.
Internal alignment on the way you feel, think, communicate, and act create harmony in our life. Looking at it can be a compass to quickly identify those moments of internal misalignment and easily work our way back to balance.
When we think one thing and say another, or when we say one thing and do another, or when we think one thing and do another, in those situations we show up partially. We are one person with a group of friends and someone else with another group. We are one person at work and another at home.
Finding that internal alignment requires us to identify our limiting believes and fears of not being accepted as we are. All those limitations are not us, they are just mental concepts our societies, communities and families created, but are not defining who we really are.
In order to explore your internal alignment, think about an specific situation at work or at your personal life and let's jump into a CREATIVE COACHING TIME:
🌱 What do you feel about this situation?\ 🌱 What do you think about it?\ 🌱 What do you say about this situation? If you haven't said anything yet, why? Are there any fears or limiting believes?\ 🌱 What have you done about this? If you haven't, why?
🌱 Is it congruence between what you feel and what you say?\ 🌱 Is it congruence between what you think and what you have done?
🌱 What small step can you take to get closer to internal alignment?
Congruence between what you feel, think, say and do eventually leads to come at work or be at home as same person, as a whole self.
In my adventure at the corporate world, I have experienced that using colors is related to being childish and not being professional. But when I tried to overcome that limiting belief using a lot of colors in a presentation as a test, people actually appreciated it and liked it.
Since then, I have been exploring how to introduce colors while interacting with teams at work. In that experimentation, I have learned that colors can speaks to our brains and help us with visual memory.
Some colors can trigger positive emotions in us, as well as, some others might trigger negative ones.
Colors can be used as a creative tool to express ideas, communicate with our teams important messages and create spaces with specific purposes as we will explore in this book.
Your beliefs about using colors at work are going to determine your impression of these series of blog posts, so sooner than later, I would like to invite you to another CREATIVE COACHING TIME to explore them:
\ 🌱 What do colors make you feel?\ 🌱 What are your beliefs about colors?\ 🌱 What are your beliefs about using colors at work?\ 🌱 What are the reasons behind those beliefs?\ 🌱 Would you like to try to use more colors at work for a week and explore what happens?\ \ As a creative tool, colors can also be used to describe the way you feel as well as your talents (by thinking, communicating and doing).
Internal congruence is an aspect that can help us a lot on identifying how opaque or brilliant are our colors. An example can help you to understand how to apply colors into your internal congruence. Let's imagine you feel very emotionally overwhelmed today but you don't talk about it at all. That is an opaque representation of the color pink.
In the following blogs, we will explore each color, its meaning and how you can apply it to express your feelings and identify your talents. It will help you to see yourself from a new perspective (the primary goal of creativity) and learn something about yourself. As we start this colorful journey, you might need to learn a little bit about each color first.
We can also use colors to define roles in a group as well as the mission of a team in an organization. Then, I will invite you to reflect on how we use colors at work today (if we do it at all) and additional ways of using them.
Although there are a lot of colors, you don't have to have them all at once, so there is not race to win anything here. You don't need to compete with others on their colors versus yours. There might be times in your life or professional career where you will need to develop one color more than another. Even as feelings, you can feel RED ❤️ today and PINK 🩷 tomorrow. The idea is to let yourself experiment all feelings without judgement.
An evolutionary goal as individuals, if there could be any, it might be to have them or have experienced all, but you have your whole life for it.
An evolutionary purpose as a teams, organizations and companies, it could be to use them as a diverse way of feeling, thinking, expressing and acting. And this could set a new step into our diversity and inclusion discussions in the future. Being GREEN 💚 today, doesn't mean I will always be GREEN. It might be that the situation today requires me to be GREEN. This could eventually lead to focusing on being more than gender, color, race or any other tags we are using these days. We will talk more about that in a chapter.
Before we jump into the colors, let's have a a new CREATIVE COACHING TIME, It is your turn now, before knowing anything about the meaning of the colors, quickly rate yourself based the first word that appears in your mind when you read these questions (Low or High):
How RED ❤️ are you?\ How ORANGE 🧡 are you?\ How YELLOW 💛 are you?\ How GREEN 💚 are you?\ How PINK 🩷 are you?\ How SKY BLUE 🩵 are you?\ How BLUE 💙 are you?\ How VIOLET 💜 are you?
You can apply the same questions to feelings. Remember this set of answers are a picture of you today, by the time doing this exercise. You can come back to it every time you want to check how colorful are you in the way you think, you feel, you communicate and you act anytime.
Hope this helps!
Stay colorful in a black and white World
Laus 🌱💛