Transform Your Life with Color Workday Colors by Charles Phillips l Colors l What do Colors Say About You l Colors and Personality l Colors and Traits l The Meaning of Colors

Color at Work

If you have to wear a uniform at work, you usually won’t have to put it on until you clock in, so why not select an outfit in mood-enhancing colors to wear on the way to and from work? Choose your accessories with care - even during the day you will absorb the color vibrations of your underwear or the T-shirt or other clothing you wear under a uniform.

If you feel a strong attraction to particular colors, carry colored cloths or cards with you. You can either display them around your work area or, if there is somewhere where you can relax in private, use them to soothe your spirits or boost your energy levels during your break. If allowed, wear a brooch or ring - or carry a gemstone - in one of your preferred colors.

Emphasizing Your Role

If you are a teacher, a health practitioner, or a complementary healer, wearing blue suggests that you are knowledgeable and dedicated to serving others; light blue suggests a creative capacity for healing. Add orange accents to signal that you have mental energy and independence, or yellow to signal a powerful intellect. If you have to give lectures, be sure to wear bright colors, which will help to make your performance at the lecturn eye-catching and memorable. Avoid all-white or all-black outfits.

A lawyer or public servant might wear dark blue or green with a red tie or brooch: the blue suggests dedicated service, and the green an optimistic outlook; red indicates energy and a passionate pursuit of the goal tempered by the more sober blues and greens of the main suit. Architects, writers, musicians, artists, and designers are free to combine colors to reflect their own preferences and color vibrations. A mixture of bright colors will tend to stimulate creativity while suggesting to potential clients and others that they are fresh -thinking, perhaps unconventional, with an open mind.

If you happen to be pregnant, on maternity leave, a full-time mother, or a kindergarten teacher, wearing green and light blue or pastel shades is soothing for the body and for your young charges.