Today my newest grandchild was born. As I hold her, I can’t help but wonder who she will be. Will she grow up to be a leader? An entertainer? A caregiver? Or will she quietly go about her business?

Color Code teaches us that we are born with our personalities. They are innate. Looking at this small, perfect form, it seems that a personality is too unbelievably huge to be contained in her little body. After all, our personalities are huge—they help determine the direction of our lives.

That’s not to say our destiny is controlled by our color. How we use the strengths and limitations of our driving core motive is up to us.

Take Mother Teresa. A Blue right? Wrong. Mother Teresa was a Red. She used her Red strengths as a natural leader to accomplish the impossible.

Walt Disney must be a Yellow—he created the happiest place on earth—but no. His Blue strengths of creativity and perfectionism kept him up at night so he could create the perfect place for you Yellows.

I think we can all guess the color of Albert Einstien. His genius is legendary, but he avoided the limelight and preferred quietly doing his theorizing in private.

If you think growing up Yellow is just one party after another, consider that many of our most popular Yellow presidents—John F. Kennedy, Ronald Regan, Bill Clinton—Yellows, all, and all achieved the highest office in the United States.

No matter her driving core motive, this little one has the potential to do whatever she wants.

So, for now, I see physical characteristics of her parents, like her Blue mother’s mouth and her White father’s eyes, but it will be a while before I will identify if she takes after either in the driving core motive department. CC

Teresa Glenn has been working with the Color Code since 2006, where her main focus is product development. She has been in the publishing and product development field for over 20 years. Teresa is a core Red with a strong Yellow secondary.