Very Best of Living

Taylor and Cathy discuss mental health.  Taylor shares 3 important components for achieving mental health including discipline, personal responsibility, and compassion. They also share information about a new coaching program. For more information, email contact@TaylorHartman.com . Take the Personality and Character Profiles at TaylorHartman.com . Send questions and comments to Taylor@TaylorHartma...

Taylor and Cathy share tips for each color on how to deal more effectively with who and how you are. They also explore how others can engage each color for best results and maximum connection. Take the Personality and Character Profiles at TaylorHartman.com . Send questions and comments to Taylor@TaylorHartman.com   Or Cathy@TaylorHartman.co Take the Personality and Character Profiles at TaylorHar...

Taylor and Cathy discuss what it means to be self-aware. Part of self-awareness is knowing what matters to you and seeing how you impact the people around you. It involves being humble enough to receive criticism and taking the steps needed to get where you want to be in life. Other topics include types of burdens and how to deal with them, avoiding excuses, and taking responsibility for your choi...

In this episode, Taylor and Cathy discuss taking responsibility for creating great relationships.  It is easy to find ways to make all issues and conflicts with others their fault.  The true work and reward is in taking the step of responsibility and seeing how it changes our perspective and then our life. Take the Personality and Character Profiles at TaylorHartman.com . Send questions and commen...

In today’s podcast, Taylor and Cathy explore how to get over ourselves and learn to love others in the most powerful way - in the way that others truly feel understood and valued.  To have the most amazing and powerful relationships, we must learn to speak the language of all the core colors. Take the Personality and Character Profiles at TaylorHartman.com . Send questions and comments to Taylor@T...

What beliefs, attitudes, strengths and limitations do you bring to your relationships?  What things can limit our growth in a relationship? What steps can you take to assure you are truly communicating with the people in your life? In today’s episode, Taylor and Cathy discuss those things we must be aware of that make or break our relationships.  Take the Personality and Character Profiles at Tayl...

Today on The Very Best of Living , Dr. Hartman and Cathy Larsen discuss broken marriages and how low self-esteem and instant gratification get in the way of healthy, happy relationships. Part 1 of 2.  Take the Personality and Character Profiles at TaylorHartman.com . Send questions and comments to Taylor@TaylorHartman.com   with “Podcast” in the subject line. Take the Personality and Character Pro...

Today on The Very Best of Living , Dr. Hartman and Cathy Larsen talk about developing the skill of exploring the simple pleasures in life to deal with isolation and stress.  They highlight how each color can take more risks, embrace the present, and live life on their terms.  Exercise: What are the simple pleasures that bring you peace and joy? How do you share those simple pleasures with others?...

Taylor and Cathy explore the concept of “opposites attract” in relationships. Topics include taking ownership, holding up your end of the bargain, expectations, and comfort zones. They also discuss the reasons that opposites do in fact attract and how to view differences as strengths instead of irritations. Take the Personality and Character Profiles at TaylorHartman.com . Send questions and comme...

Taylor and Cathy discuss how to face life’s challenges by owning your problems. Topics include avoiding fear as a driving force, the weight of your own voice (versus that of others), the important role of irritants, and the story of Taylor’s alias. Take the Personality and Character Profiles at TaylorHartman.com . Send questions and comments to Taylor@TaylorHartman.com   with “Podcast” in the subj...

Taylor and Cathy discuss self-awareness. They explain the importance of self-awareness and different ways to strengthen it. They also explore doing what you love, setting intentions, and embracing the help of others to become your best self. Exercise: What habits have you created that block your ability to live your best life? What habits have you created that enhance you ability to live your best...

Taylor and Cathy explore perspective and how it relates to the 5 areas of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). They explore how each color embodies and interacts with perspective in different ways. Yellows tend to have the easiest time with perspective and change. Exercises: 1)      Food for Thought: What are your struggles that were imposed on you, and what are those that you have created yourself. What...

Taylor and Cathy discuss the final step in the Charactered Path- Serve Others. They explore what it is to serve others and what it means to be served by others. Topics include getting over yourself, how to serve each color by speaking their unique language, and how to serve in different settings including business. The color blue excels in the area of service. The Charactered Path 1.       Value s...

Taylor and Cathy discuss step 5 of the Charactered Path- Discover Balance. They explore what a balanced life entails for each individual, life’s most common regrets and how to avoid them, and how to add necessary dimensions to your life. White’s excel most in this step. The Charactered Path 1.       Value Self 2.       Seek Truth 3.       Clean Up Motives 4.       Focus Your Commitments 5.       D...

Taylor and Cathy discuss step four of the Charactered Path- Focus Your Commitments. This episode explores the importance of choosing what and who you want your life to be about, the motive behind that decision, and the determination needed to achieve it. Red is the color that most excels at focus and determination. Other topics include challenging situations and how owning your issues can be benef...

Taylor and Cathy continue the discussion on motives, clean versus dirty, and a variety of situations including win-win, win-lose, lose-win, and lose-lose. They explain the importance of motive in every step of the Charactered Path. Exercise: Take the Character Profile at TaylorHartman.com to identify strengths and weaknesses or look over the list of strengths and weaknesses and circle the weakness...

Taylor and Cathy discuss vulnerability, gratitude, and New Year’s resolutions before continuing down the Charactered Path with step 3- Clean Up Motives. Motives are described as “clean” versus “dirty.” The conversation also addresses reasons for getting stuck along the way to becoming charactered. The Charactered Path 1)      Value self 2)      Seek truth 3)      Clean up motives* 4)      Focus yo...

Cathy and Taylor discuss step 2 of the "Charactered Path"- Seek Truth. Truth is broken down into capitol “T” truths and small “t” truths. They examine the difference between them and why understanding that difference is so important. Exercise: Identify 5-10 experiences that have been most damaging to you in your life. Write down your age, what happened, and what you learned from it. Now...

Taylor and Cathy share the books that have impacted them most then move into step 1 of the charactered path- Value Self. Topics include how to value yourself, why it’s difficult, and each color’s strengths and limitations in this area. Taylor describes the use of coaches and mentors as a particularly helpful tool along the charactered path. The Charactered Path 1)      Value self 2)      Seek trut...

Cathy and Taylor delve deeper into becoming charactered and discuss wake-up calls, coming to terms with limitations, and the importance of becoming “legitimate.” They explain the process of adding dimensions to your personality buy utilizing the strengths of other colors. Exercise: Choose 1-3 negative traits that prevent you from living life abundantly. Then, choose the one limitation that you fee...

Taylor and Cathy further the discussion on becoming charactered and how to apply the principles to your life. Cathy peppers Taylor with questions delving into how each color deals with COVID restrictions, growth, the holidays, and embodying humility (a necessity of becoming charactered). Exercise: Take the Character Profile and learn where you currently reside among the 4 pillars. The Charactered...

Taylor and Cathy continue their discussion on becoming charactered. They cover COVID and its effect on connection, why becoming charactered is difficult, trauma and survival mode, and they begin down the charactered path with step one- value self. The Charactered Path 1)      Value self * 2)      Seek Truth 3)      Clean up motives 4)      Focus your commitments 5)      Discover balance 6)      Se...

Taylor and Cathy discuss what it means to become charactered and how to get there by following the “Charactered Path.” Character means embracing gifts that are not naturally your own, such as those from other colors. The ultimate goal of taking the Charactered Path  is to  serve others and bless those around you. 4 pillars: *Charactered Healthy Unhealthy Sick   *The Charactered Path 1)      Value...

Reds are motivated by power, seek productivity, and need to look good to others.  Simple stated, Reds want their own way. They like to be in the driver’s seat and willingly  pay the price to be in a leadership role. Reds value whatever gets them ahead in life,  whether it be at work, school, or in their personal relationships. What Reds value, the get  done. They are often workaholics. They will,...

Blues are motivated by intimacy, seek opportunities to genuinely connect with others,  and need to be appreciated. They do everything with quality and are devoted and loyal friends. Whatever or whomever they commit to are their sole (and soul) focus. They love  to serve and will give freely of themselves to nurture others’ lives.   Blues need to be understood. They have distinct preferences and ar...