Tune up your EQ

Happy New Year to you. I wish you health, happiness and prosperity in the coming year.

My online friend and colleague, Ed Brenegar is blessed with high levels of intrapersonal intelligence and he uses it to help others achieve their goals.

He’s produced a tool called The Four Questions Every Leader Must Ask. I used it throughout 2007. It helped me to radically improve my emotional intelligence. Ed kicked off 2008 by interviewing me about how his 4 Questions has impacted my life.

Read his interview and share your views with Ed. Could his tool help you make 2008 your best year ever?

I’d love to know what you think.

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Improve your emotional intelligence. Find simple tools that resonate with you. Use them repeatedly and achieve an amazing transformation.

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“A fanatic is someone who won’t change his mind and can’t change the subject”

Quotation by Winston Churchill.

In the fifth article in this Thriving on Change series I served you the first course of a banquet of fine food for the mind from Ralph Marston.

Grab your seat and tuck in to the second course. The quotations are in bold and my notes are in italics.

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“The world can trick you into thinking that there’s only one road to your destination. In truth, there are infinite ways to get where you wish to go.”

Open your mind and heart. Stir your creative juices.

“There’s nothing that says you have to succeed in the same way as someone else. In fact, there’s nothing that says you must define success in the same way as someone else.”

This is why it is so important to obey the ancient injunction Know Thyself.
Use your self-knowledge to define success in your own special way

“You are truly one of a kind, with your own unique passions and purposes. And you’re fully capable of traveling your own route to the fulfillment of your dreams.”

Your self awareness is your launching pad to greater self-confidence.

“Don’t be stopped just because the road that everyone else uses has been closed. Find your own path, and if that path is blocked find another, and you will surely reach whatever destination you choose.”

A self aware person backs his/her own judgement (including feelings).
S/he knows how to leverage creative imagination to achieve amazing results.

I hope you enjoyed this fine meal as much as I did. Thanks, once more, Tony Walcott from Barbados, for laying the table with this sumptuous meal of Ralph Marston quotations.

More Resources

Use your emotional intelligence to become more creative. Read these Tune up your EQ articles.

An Intruiging Way To Create Reality - how Priscilla Palmer initiated the Personal Development List.

Why Norma Vincent Peale Would Have Been Amazed By EQ - how and why emotional intelligence is more powerful than positive thinking.

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Have you experienced one or more of the following within the last year; moving into a new home, starting a new job, losing someone you love, winning the lotto?

This month’s BrightIdeas™ presentation

These and other major life changes can rock your world. It doesn’t have to be that way.

In this months BrightIdeas presentation, we look at what it takes to thrive on change. I promise you a revealing and thought provoking experience.

Start by downloading the Thriving on Change Presentation in pdf format.

Then, get an overview of your change readiness by completing the Thriving On Change Questionnaire.

We’ll discuss practical tips on how to raise your awareness, how to become more adaptable and the key to achieving greater resilience in the Thriving on Change Series.

I’d be really happy if you join us on this journey. Your ideas and experiences will enrich all of us.

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In the Top 8 Tools For Reflection series, 8 Tune up your EQ readers help you grasp the essence of EQ. In the final insight in the series, Tanika Williams, who told her story in the Me and My EQ series tells us that we must take charge of our transformation.

“Today I strive and I endeavour to always seek to take control of me. Transform me and seek to ignite others to see the need to change; because after all I can only change me.”

“No one will ever change unless such an individual sees, accepts and honours such a need by getting involved in one’s own transformation.”

2 Questions For You

1. Do you accept the challenge?
2. What’s next?

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“Transformation is a funny thing, we become radically different, through a long process of changing ourselves from the inside out. Even though it looks like today you saw somebody and they look completely different tomorrow, that’s rarely what transformation is about.”

Galba Bright in a radio interview with Andrea Williams-Green, January 2006

The Inspiration Academy’s quick fix of the latest CDs, DVDs, books and mp3s look TOO ENTICING to ignore. You can become a brand new you without too much effort. All it takes is some cash and some of your time. You can have your cake and eat it.

But will the Inspiration Academy give you long lasting results that will “stick”? I’m not so sure.

I do know that if you follow these 4 little known steps you’ll achieve a positive transformation. Can I walk you through them?

1. Manage your emotions and transform yourself

Have you ever embarked on a personal transformation for purely logical reasons?

Even if you did, it’s unlikely that you’ll sustain yourself on your journey unless you have a deep emotional investment in your goal or outcome.

That’s why your EQ, your ability to consciously integrate how you think, feel and act, is such a powerful transformational tool.

2. Accept that personal transformation is a discontinuous process.

Once you make the commitment to transform yourself, many of the final results and outcomes will be beyond your control. When you transform yourself, you transform your relationships with others, for example, you may lose or gain friends, associates etc.

Sometimes your transformation brings a trailor load of changes all at once, like the proverbial queue of London buses. At other times, your deep commitment to personal transformation incubates for years and finally manifests itself as a “surprise.”

3. Reflect on what you’ve learned to deepen your transformation

When you step back and reflect on your personal transformation, you begin to understand that your world is somewhat chaotic, and that you must commit to live in the moment, without too much concern about what happened in the past, or what tomorrow will bring.

You’ll realise that you are actually in control of very little. It’s your focus on what you consider to be under your control and most important to you that enables you to achieve a transformation.

When you accept that transformation is a process, not an event, you’re free to become more curious. You’ll quickly learn more about yourself and others and you’ll be able to make the most of what you’ve learned. Discontinuity can be scary and exciting.

4. Enjoy the journey, bumps and all

If you make a deep commitment to personal transformation, your journey will continue for the rest of your life. At the end you may have reached a very different place than what you originally intended when you started out your exciting, discomfiting, uncertain and ultimately fulfilling journey.

More Resources

Download Galba Bright’s 7 Laws Of Emotional Intelligence in pdf format

and get some solid, practical guidance along the way.

Learn 5 more simple, fundamental steps.

Aim to apply3 simple phrases to all aspects of your life.

I’d love to know your thoughts, feelings and experiences about your transformation(s).

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