Chronicles: Alan B. Rowley II - Success Warrior - ECoach - P90X

I Make My Wife Laugh - Part 2

Last week, I decided to clean off my desks.  I do this every couple of weeks.  Okay, I mean to do it every couple of weeks.  Sometimes, it's every couple of months.  Sometimes it doesn't happen until I can't find something important.

Not much really accumulates here.  A bit of mail sometimes, a couple of magazines, notes for writing, and a few empty water glasses.  Why I can't take one out when I bring one in, I don't know.  Probably something to do with my routine where I get to the kitchen before I get to the office.

We had been talking about moving so it was on my mind.  Originally we had planned on moving in 2009.  With the job opportunity that has presented itself, we've decided to move as soon as I get a job that pays more than I'm getting here.

We have no idea when that will be and that's what made my wife laugh.  For the most part, she has gotten used to the fact that she's married to a quirky kinda guy that will do stuff out of the blue. 

"What are you thinking?" is a question that could bring any sort of answer, some that don't really have any base in reality.

One for the Yellows before I give the Color Code a rest

One of the things that I have learned from the Color Code is to just be more accepting of people.  That's probably easier since I'm a White but anyway . . .

When someone says or does something, it can be easier to understand them when you know their color.  It can also be fun to watch the reactions from other people.

My oldest daughter is a Yellow.  A while back, she broke up with her boyfriend.  I asked her why.

"It's just not fun anymore," she said.  You can't get any more of a Yellow answer if you tried.

"Okay," I said, accepting her decision without judgement.  It's her life and it didn't affect me.  A typical White response.

When I relayed the information to my wife, she said, "That's not a good reason."  You thought I was going to say she said, "That's not right," huh?  Still, her response is a great Blue response.

When I watch these things, I can't help but smile.  It's bizarre to see these things played out like this.  Not everything in life is as clean cut as this example but things like this come along and it's just fun to observe.   

Will you miss me when I'm gone?

I like to watch people.  I don't know when I picked this habit up, probably when I was a cop, but I find it enjoyable.  I've been discussing Taylor Hartman's Color Code in my other blog but I wanted to move that discussion over here so I could get back to talking about money over there. 

Watching people from the perspective of the Color Code is interesting as well.  You see how people think and how they think differently.

Yesterday, my wife asked me during lunch, "Would you miss me if I was gone?"

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"Nowhere but what if I did?"

"Why would you leave?" I asked.

"What if I died? Would you miss me?"

"Probably not," I answered.

"Why not?"

"What's the point?  You'd be gone.  I'd have to go on."

"That's not right."

When you live with a Blue, you better get used to hearing those words.  From the other side, if you live with a White, you might as well get used to the supposed callousness.  =)