How to increase emotional intelligence and take charge of your life!

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How To Increase Emotional Intelligence And Take Charge Of Your Life!

Kathryn Marker - Women Seeking Wisdom


How To Increase Emotional Intelligence And Take Charge Of Your Life! Being Able To Control Our Emotions And Increase Emotional Intelligence Is Pivotal To Our Success In So Many Areas Of Our Lives More and more today we are seeing people who didn’t do well in school really succeed in life – particularly business. Having a high Emotional Intelligence (EQ) benefits us in every part of our lives – including parenting and relationships. So what can you do to Increase Emotional Intelligence so you can grow in your relationships and fulfillment?

Okie Dokie, So What Is Emotional Intelligence? LifeHack.org defines Emotional Intelligence as : the ability to recognize your emotions, understand what they’re telling you, and realize how they affect the people around you. People who function at a high rate of emotional intelligence have the ability to adjust their behaviors and are more effective at recognizing and managing their own emotions as well as the emotions of others.

How To Increase Emotional Intelligence And Take Charge Of Your Life!


How To Increase Emotional Intelligence And Take Charge Of Your Life! And this really struck me: Psych Central says it’s important because: Many of us move through life making important decisions based on our current circumstances. We may perceive them as being beyond our ability to change, thus limiting our options and solutions. Taking time to reflect and examining why we decide to do what we do enables us to lead lives determined by our conscious intentions rather than circumstances alone.

Breakin’ It Down So you can see why it’s so important. The 6 areas you want to focus on improving include: Self-Awareness – Know thy self Empathy – Feel Others Emotions (Learn More About Empathy Here) Self-Regulation – Controlling Your Impulses (and not strangling some people lol) Motivation – Being able to wait for long term results instead of short term success Social Skills – Connecting and Understanding Others Happiness – More than just smiling peeps! Feel it deep and understanding the connection to giving

How To Increase Emotional Intelligence And Take Charge Of Your Life!


How To Increase Emotional Intelligence And Take Charge Of Your Life! A Word Of Warning I was reading something very interesting and different on The Babble Out by Zoe Miller about Emotional Intelligence . She said: In one Harvard study of EI as a factor of negotiation skill, they produced more evidence of the value of EI as part of a negotiator’s skill set. Surprisingly, they also noted that it did not always correlate with a mutually favorable result in those negotiations. They think it possible that the high level of empathy that is a part of EI may have led negotiators to concede more advantages during negotiations than they needed to. And that’s something I know I can do sometimes! I always have to remember to go into any negotiation with what I want in mind so that I can meet someone half way rather than have them negotiate me down further.

Sooo…. I really hope you found this useful! I’m writing a few articles that will be eventually turned into Ebooks for the Women Seeking Wisdom Resource Library that you can download at your leisure for free.

How To Increase Emotional Intelligence And Take Charge Of Your Life!


How To Increase Emotional Intelligence And Take Charge Of Your Life! You can access this library right now and download our free ebooks and resources which are aimed to help you in relationships, self-awareness, abundance and so forth. Simply Click Here And Enter Your Email And I'll Send Your Password Straight Out. Take Care as always! Kathryn. Further Reading: The One Thing Most Of Us Are Guilty Of That Stops Us Helping Others (Empathy vs Projection) Increase Your Social Intelligence With A Few Of My Favorite Reads What It Means To Be An INFJ Woman I’m a Blogger, Introvert, Old Soul, Chocolate Lover and a Mum from Australia. My day job is in Remedial Massage (I have dangerous elbows!) and I have spent my life having conversations about Personal Growth, Abundance and Altruism which has developed my love for helping others and living life to the fullest passionately!

How To Increase Emotional Intelligence And Take Charge Of Your Life!


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