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From Basics To Mastery
By Kerri Salls, Fri Dec 9th
For all of us, emotional intelligence encompasses five basicareas of mastery. They are: - Knowing your feelings and using them to make life decisionsyou can live with. - Being able to manage your emotional life without beinghijacked by it -- not being paralyzed by depression or worry, orswept away by anger.
- Persisting in the face of setbacks and channeling yourimpulses in order to pursue your goals. - Empathy -- reading other people's emotions without theirhaving to tell you what they are feeling. - Handling feelings in relationships with skill and harmony -being able to articulate the unspoken pulse of a group, forexample. The scope of these skills means there is indeed room for all ofus to learn, grow, and improve. There is a lot to learn here.Learning about emotional intelligence, learning about the toolsfor energy efficiency; that's only the beginning. It's likereading all the books on and small boat sailing. Youthen have the theory mastered, but you have no hands-onpractice. It's only with practice that we gain mastery ofanything. That's true of our feelings and emotions too! The scope of these skills means there is indeed room for all ofus to learn, grow, and improve. There is a lot to learn here.Learning about emotional intelligence, learning about the toolsfor energy efficiency; that's only the beginning. It's likereading all the books on and small boat sailing. Youthen have the theory mastered, but you have no hands-onpractice. It's only with practice that we gain mastery ofanything. That's true of our feelings and emotions too! How
do you address so many broad areas? - Assessment tools are a great way to learn to identify youremotions - Energy efficiency tools are invaluable in helping you tap intoinner wisdom and resources to manage your emotions andunderstand what the best choices are when you are making lifedecisions. - Persistence can be learned. In fact, providing challenges andhardships to children, to give them an opportunity to developpersistence and stick-to-itiveness, is intrinsic in manycultures. Goal-setting and the 6 Most- Important-Things List arejust two tools you can apply immediately. - Developing empathy is powerful in critical business situationslike a sales call, a closing, your management style, etc. Usingyour energy efficiency tools will allow you to pay attention toyour instincts in this area instead of second-guessing yourself. - Once you learn to be the manager of your feelings, it becomesan easy habit to apply in any business or personal relationship. Mastery of all the basics does not occur overnight. But withpractice it comes very quickly - just like learning to ride abicycle. Once you experience how it's 'supposed to work', howenergy efficiency is 'supposed to feel', it's easier and easierto reestablish in a variety of circumstances. That's wheremastery is achieved. That's where you and everyone in yourbusiness benefit from your mastery. About the author:Kerri Salls, MBA runs a virtual business school to train,consult and coach small business CEO's and entrepreneurs in 10key strategies to make more profit in less time. Learn more athttp://www.breakthrough-business-school.com/products.html orsign up for a free weekly newsletter athttp://www.breakthrough-business-school.com/newsletter.shtml
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