Month: June 2018

Organize Yourself-Attract, Connect, Prosper

At Human Art: The Original Personality Test we get a lot of requests daily. They range from someone just needing to know something about their design (for example, “is this article my design?”), or something about their thought process, to someone ordering a class, a family reunion or a major corporate event. Needless to say, we are busy and we love it. We have three categories we put our requests or jobs under: Attract, Connect, and Prosper.

Attract is for personal growth. Knowing your design or authenticity and anything that can aid in discovering that. This is where individual consultations come in. It really has to do with your relationship with yourself.

Connect is, once you know yourself, how to better connect with others from that place of authenticity. This is a powerful category because it launches you into your life and connecting in a healthy way with others.

Prosper is how do you put that to use to find and bring more success in your life and in your everyday tasks. I think of this as working smarter, not harder, at what you do.

This is a great way to organize our message when we are serving our clients, but it is not JUST a great way for us to organize Human Art. It could be an amazing tool for YOU to organize each day. Every morning think to yourself: “Attract, Connect, Prosper.”

First, you want to do what you can to feel Attractive in your authenticity. My parents used to teach us to “get up and take whatever time you need to feel attractive in your authenticity.” It is an expression to the world of who you are. So whether it be a pair of jeans you love to show your casualness, or a whimsical pony tail to show your lightness, or even a stark beautiful suit to show your authority or simply a sweater or cologne to express your refinement, take that time. Look in the mirror a final time with approval for yourself and then turn and forget yourselves and go serve.

This leads me to Connect. The important part of connecting is two-fold. One, stay in your authenticity, but Two, always celebrate the differences of the person you are connecting with. Bask in the opposite energy that seems to live in you and those you connect with. When done in a positive way without labels it leads to amazing amounts of synergy. Instead of using the difference as a reason to lose credibility in those you deal with, us it as a starting point of negotiation. You will find great solutions in negotiating that way.

Once you can negotiate in that form it leads you right into more opportunities to Prosper. Prosper means finding your strengths authentically and using those in every task you have on your list, and doing them in your way. I find it works every time.

For example, the task might be to come up with a great new solution to a problem. A Saturated person will always find success when they deem their version of quality on the task and then go to work in a concomitant way with that one most important thing. A Whitened person will always keep in mind how everyone is interacting to find optimal social success. A party is truly a party when everyone is having a good time and they won’t settle until they do.  A Grayed person is brilliant in the details. Sometimes after an event I ask to just look at their lists that they made during the planning stages. It is a beautiful thing to see the number of details they cover and the meticulous nature in which they did. It is really like viewing a piece of art. Lastly, a Blackened person will just “get ‘r done.”  It’s as if they are moving forward before the orders are even finished being put in. They just start rolling. They are like small human versions of great big bulldozers and trackers and trucks and fleets…I could go on. You get the point. When a Blackened person walks on the job site you know things are going to get done. I appreciate that so much in a task. It brings stability to an event.

So wherever you are stop and think: “Attract, Connect, Prosper” and move forward in that way each day.

And remember, everyone is a masterpiece.

-Brook

Attract Connect Prosper

In Memory of Donna-Thank You

I wish I had the perfect words to properly express my feelings after seeing all of the care and concern that was shown with the passing of my mother Donna. Appreciation, love, awe for just how good people really are just don’t seem to hit right on the enormous gratitude that I feel. I read every word of the comments posted throughout the week. I actually read them several times through. With each of your posts came an attached memory or memories.  It seemed to give me a little more strength every time I read them.

The sheer goodness of humans was implanted in the literally thousands of comments collectively over the week. One thing that stood out to me is how our tag line “everyone is a masterpiece” would be illuminated in every comment.” I can’t quite explain it because it’s not like it was directly said each time but I loved the comments where with all of the love and support that was sent was also a gentle little “I learned this about myself.” That was so important to me and what this life-long journey in my family has been about. It was a dedication of sorts not only to Donna but the work and program that still lives on even with her passing.

Thank you for that. I could wake up every morning seeing a post of a word or statement that illuminates your uniqueness. So many good people have asked “what can I do, what can I do for your family. In my view I would have to say do that same thing everyday.  Wake up and say, “I know this about me, and I love that about myself.”

I thank you once again for the love and caring. I love and respect who you are.

Everyone truly is a masterpiece.

Brook