Resilience through Gratitude
The brief video below on resilience and gratitude covers what’s likely to happen when we intentionally practice gratitude:– We’ll notice and appreciate the good things in life: we train the mind to look for…
Resilience through Gratitude
Tag Archive: emotionalintelligence
Changing your behaviour and habits for a better version of you
Is there a habit, behaviour or way of thinking that you’d like to stop, or start doing or do more or less of? Get fitter/exercise a little (more)? Lose weight? Get out and about/socialise more?…
How To Be On Your Best Behaviour
I’d like to share here a few ideas about habit-change – in terms of our thinking and/or behaviours – to ‘maximise our potential’ and live our best lives. It’s a follow-up to a workshop that…
Managing our Chimp
I’ve spoken a little here before about managing our Chimp, and the estimable Steve Peters’ ‘Chimp management’ mind model (© Prof. Steve Peters © Graphics Jeff Batista). I’m returning to it now to provide a…
Managing emotions and preventing stress: keeping on an even keel
I wanted to say a few words here about ‘keeping on an even keel’ and responding, rather than reacting, with a view to managing emotions and preventing stress. We’re exploring here how useful it can…
From stress to emotional intelligence
I wanted to share here a few ideas on the relationship between stress and emotional intelligence (EQ), and how we might be able to move from stress to emotional intelligence: being emotionally intelligent rather than…
How to manage stress responses (video)
This brief video looks at how we can respond when we’re stressed, our stress responses: how we can feel, how we respond emotionally, what we may do differently and how it can affect us physically.…
Gratitude: why it’s a good idea
What do you feel grateful for today? We may feel instinctively that gratitude as part of our mindset will be good for us, but there’s also a wealth of research that confirms that experiencing gratitude…
How to establish rapport
I included this quote/pic of Maya Angelou in a session I ran recently on emotional intelligence (EQ), in relation to how to establish rapport. One of the key components of EQ as you’re no doubt…
We live in our own worlds
With reference to creating and living in our own worlds, I’d like to share a few ideas and suggestions on managing our emotions, and as a result making the most of ourselves. I delivered a…