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It is with deep regret that the family and friends of Galba Bright wish to inform you of Galba’s untimely passing.

Galba Francis Adeyinka Bright, Human Resource Consultant and Author, died at his office on March 31 of natural causes, leaving his wife Sandra, numerous family members, friends, associates, readers and fans.

Out of respect, the Tune up your EQ website created by Galba will therefore be offline for a short period.

We thank you for your understanding at this time and appreciate the interest you have shown in Galba’s work and ideas.

Should you wish to post comments about the personal impact of Galba’s thoughts and writings, please feel free to click here or go to his blog.

The Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Galba Bright will be held at St. John’s Methodist Church, Montego Bay, Jamaica, at 1.00 pm on Sunday, April 19, followed by interment in Dovecot of St. James Memorial Park, Orange, St. James.

21 Timeless Thoughts About Thankfulness As Tune up your EQ Turns 200

February 28th, 2008 by Galba Bright

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Is there something that you’re thankful right now? Here 21 Timeless Thoughts About Thankfulness. Which one triggers the most positive emotions in you?

“1. Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.”

Geoffrey F. Albert

“2. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

Joaseph Addison

“3. Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.”

James Allen

“4. There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants — more than anything else — to become rich. As long as they don’t have the money, it’ll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they’ll understand how important other things are — and have always been.”

Anita Loos

“5. I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

Elbert Hubbard

“6. If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.”

Oriental Proverb

“7. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

Marcel Proust

“8. Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.”

Bill Walsh

“9. The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”

John E. Southard

“10. As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.”

Adabella Radici

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“11. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

G.K. Chesterton

“12. The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”

Henry Ward Beecher

“13. Praise the bridge that carried you over.”

George Colman

“14. If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”

Robert Quillen

“15. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures”

Thornton Wilder

“16. If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”

Gerald Good

” 17. Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”

Estonian Proverb

” 18. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”

Eric Hoffer

” 19. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

Henry Ward Beecher

“20. When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”

George Canning

“21. When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them”

Chinese Proverb

This is the 200th article at Tune up your EQ. Thank you for reading this blog. I also appreciate your comments and feedback. Writing for you is fun, as well as a great way for me to learn.

Please add your favourite comment, quote or thought about thankfulness in the comment box below, or by email, using the contact form.

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A Subscription Reminder for Certain RSS Users

November 5th, 2007 by Galba Bright

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Update on RSS Feed Improvements

On 22nd October I wrote that I had combined 3 separate RSS feeds into a single feed. For most of you, there was no change to your feed service.

This article is for those of you who subscribed at either http://feeds.feedburner.com/tuneupyoureq/ or

http://feeds.feedburner.com/tuneupyoureq/feeds/ .

If you’re one of these subscribers, your existing RSS article feed has been automatically directed to the new Tune up your EQ main feed address http://feeds.feedburner.com/tuneupyoureq/nIDS. This redirection operates until Tuesday 6th November. (Not the 15th November as I wrongly stated. I’m sorry for my error).

To continue to receive the Tune up your EQ article feed, click the subscribe button and your blog articles will continue to be delivered to your feedreader.

Subscribe to the consolidated Tune up your EQ article feed

From 7th November, if you click on your old article feed, you’ll receive this message:

“This feed is no longer active. A new feed is located at http://feeds.feedburner.com/tuneupyoureq/nIDS.”

You’ll continue to receive this message until Thursday 22nd November.

If subscribed at either http://feeds.feedburner.com/tuneupyoureq/ or

http://feeds.feedburner.com/tuneupyoureq/feeds/ and you’ve not yet re-subscribed. click the “subscribe” button and continue to receive the Tune up your EQ RSS feed.

If you subscribed for the Tune up your EQ feed at the following address:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/tuneupyoureq/nIDSyou don’t need to do anything. You’ll continue to receive your RSS feed.

Thank you for your continued reading, patience and cooperation. Please let me know if you have any comments or queries regarding these new arrangements.

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5 Ways To Search Tune up your EQ

August 31st, 2007 by Galba Bright

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Tune Up Your EQ

Can You Find Your Way Round Tune up your EQ?

With 116 blog articles and 32 pages in Tune up your EQ, I’ve been thinking about how to make it easier for you to get the emotional intelligence information that you need.

So far, I’ve come up with five ideas that I think will help and I’d like to know what you think.

1. Search Box

You can type in a keyword and pull out the information from the blog that you need.

Question: Would you like me to change the search box and include a Google search box where you can explore the entire web, as well as being able to search Tune up your EQ.

2. Categories

In the right sidebar, I list the blog’s 31 categories. These are like the blog’s broad chapter headings. 7 Laws of Emotional Intelligence is the most frequently searched category.

Questions: Is this list sufficient for you?
would you rather have a smaller list of categories displayed?

3. Tags

At the top of each article I include up to 7 tags that sort each article in a more specific way than searching the categories. You can use these to focus on a particular topic or review the articles written and/or comments made by specific Tune up your EQ readers. Right now, there are more than 70 tags and I expect the number to grow as I write about more topics.

Question:Do you find the tags helpful?

4.Sitemap

The sitemap is divided into three sections on one continuous page. In the first section you see a lists of the static pages of the blog. In the second section you find an alphabetical list of all the blog articles. The third section contains an alphabetical list of all the blog articles sorted by their category.

Questions:Is the sitemap helpful?

How can I improve it?

5. Related Posts

At the foot of each article is a list of five related articles.

Questions:Is this feature helpful?

If so, is five a good number of articles to list, or would another number work for you?

How can I improve your reader experience at Tune up your EQ? I’m curious to know.

Please leave your comments in the box below, or complete the contact form.

Thank you.

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Tune up your EQ Turns 100

July 30th, 2007 by Galba Bright

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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”

William Arthur Ward

Tune Up Your EQ

As Tune up your EQ reaches its 100th article, I want to thank all of you who have taken precious time from their busy schedule have a look at this blog. I can’t identify all of you, however, I can say how grateful I am to you for you interest and involvement.

I’d like to acknowledge everyone who has commented at Tune up your EQ or sent a trackback, so thank you to:

Suzette Bailey
Fay Barrett
John Bishop of the Emotional Mastery Website
Ed Brenegar of the Leading Questions Blog

Jeanette Campbell
Carnival of Powerful Living
Lennox Deane
Joshua Freedman of Six Seconds

Chris Garrett of the Chris Garrett on New Media Blog
Eileen Heaven
Ray Hobby
Jenny of the Enuff Blog

Jeremy
Dr. Robyn McMaster of the Brain Based Biz Blog
Manchild of the When Least Expected Blog
Anthony Mersino of the EQ4PM Blog

Dawud Miracle of the Healthy Web Design Blog
MT of the Mind Tweaks Blog
Trevor Ramikie
Randomness

Sportzia Blog
Tom Van Brunschot of the Transformation Economy Blog
Ellen Weber of the Brain Based Business Blog
Tanika Wiliams

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Vanessa Byers of the Vanessa Unplugged Blog
Yulia of the Meme Sponge Blog
Linda Zdanowicz of the Exceptional Dental Practice Management Blog

In the next post, I’ll say “thank you” to everyone who has linked to Tune up your EQ by sending links or by adding the blog to their blogroll.

I really am grateful to all of you for your interest and involvement. I’m really enjoying the experience. Enjoy your Emotional Intelligence Journey !!!

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My 3 Favourite Blogging Failures

July 28th, 2007 by Galba Bright

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“Whenever we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else. That is the first principle of creative accident. Failure can be productive only if we do not focus on it as an unproductive result. Instead: analyze the process, its components, and how you can change them, to arrive at other results. Do not ask the question ‘Why have I failed?’, but rather ‘What have I done?’

Quotation by Michael Michalko, Author of Thinking Like a Genius: Eight strategies used by the super creative, from Aristotle and Leonardo to Einstein and Edison.

The 99th Article At Tune up your EQ

Can I put Michael Michalko ’s wise words into practice and share my 3 favourite blogging failures with you? This blog was supposed to be up and runnning in 2006. That never happened. Here’s why.

Failure#1: I Made A Dumb Designer Decision

I hired a designer and paid him some money. Nothing wrong with that. My big mistake was to hire a designer who didn’t deliver the work. Net result? much gnashing of teeth and frustration on my part. During that time, I regularly failed to observe my 7 Laws of Emotional Intelligence. :(

However, by the time I did get going, I had a much better idea of what I was trying to do (do I hear you saying “oh really?”).

I spent the downtime learning and participating at some great blogs, the most useful of which was Dr. Ellen Weber’s Brain Based Business.
I eventually escaped blog design hell and found and worked with Chris Garrett, who designed this site. He did a great job with a minimum of fuss and he continues to be supportive (just yesterday he steered me through another Wordpress upgrade).

Failure#2 I Killed The First Comment That I Received

When you start a new blog, readers’ comments are like gold dust aren’t they? So if a blogger told you that he’d mastered Wordpress so well that he expertly deleted the first
comment that he received :( what would you think?

And if the person told you that he persevered and asked the commenter to try again, which she kindly did, you’d know that the blogger was determined, right?

But what if he stepped up boldly to the plate once more and …deleted the comment again ?

I was blessed because and the amazingly patient and supportive Dr. Robyn McMaster from the Brain Based Biz Blog was kind enough to post her comment one more time.

Failure#3 I Threw Too Many Ideas At You At Once

I’ve got lots more to choose from. I began to realise that throwing a trailer load of ideas at you all at once might not be the best way to encourage you to visit Tune up your EQ, so I began to slow down a little and aim to break the information down into (hopefully) more digestible parts.

I don’t like making mistakes, (do any of you?) The only person who doesn’t fail at some point in the day is the person who doesn’t get out of bed in the morning. I aim to learn from my failures. As time goes by I appreciate the learning lessons that came from the three failures that I’ve shared with you and I seek to do things differently because of what I’ve learned.

What Do You Think?

Please let me know how you feel about this blog, mistakes I have made and things that I could to give you a better experience. Make a comment in the comment box, or send me an email by completing the contact form directly below this article.

Thank you

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PS Can I suggest that you have another look at the quote at the top of this article? Those are very wise words.

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