R U Doing that Thing that you DO that you Always DO? Dear Difference Maker, Back when I first started speaking, one of the frequent scenarios at the airport between my husband and me was the power struggle that began the second I’d step off the airplane! I’d come in after a long, intense week on the road speaking for National Seminars Group — five cities a week, getting up at 6:00 a.m. to be on the floor setting up by 7:00 a.m. presenting an all-day seminar, breaking down tables and books, packing up, then driving or flying to the next city. I’d get in at midnight, get up the next morning at 6:00 a.m. and do it all over again. When I came in off the road I had only one thought: “Get me home!”
I’d come off of that plane like a horse heading to the barn at night, with “get out of my way” stamped on my forehead. This powerful urge clashed with my husband’s predominant personality style. Let me just say that a Green (me) and a Red (my husband) don’t connect to a world’s view in a similar way! Mr. Red would try to out-powerwalk me on the way to the parking garage. Being a Red and wanting to win, he’d play me like a game of chess, waiting ’til we got to the garage, then lowering the boom for the win—he knew where the car was parked, but I didn’t! Now that never really stops a Green, because we’re certain we can do anything with the right system. So with my mind thinking very fast, I would… http://maryreynolds.com/?p=868
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