What is success? While I'm constantly revisiting and revising my definition of success, most of the time I believe you are successful if you move toward your potential, can satisfy your needs and live in alignment with your values without preventing others from also finding their success. As
EQ’s Toughest Knot
Resilience literally is the return to form—bouncing back, but to many resilience is also endurance, and even transformation—weathering challenges and even driving through setback, trauma or difficulty and coming out changed—even improved—on the other side. If resilience is some combination of these
Data Gathering & EQ
The EQ-i model of Emotional Intelligence presents 15 well researched and tightly defined components that make up the behavioral face we each show. What we look and sound like to the world around us--that is our EQ. While each of these EQ elements is important and has a particular role to play in our
Reality Testing–EQ’s most neglected element
One of the richest and most interesting elements of Emotional Intelligence is also one of the behaviors our world is most in need of these days. Reality Testing is the ability or tendency to stop-action at any given moment—and to zero-in on the specific facts of that moment. What was
Whoa, Buddy! Part 1
Part 1: Overdoing EQ The common (and incorrect) way to approach Emotional Intelligence (and the EQ-i specifically) is to assume that, simply, more is better. Broadly considered, high engagement with EQ’s various elements is a good thing, but of course, the devil is in the details. Too much energy