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Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement-along with a good cup of coffee!-to start the day. Today we discuss "Emotionally Intelligent."

Hopefully, the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter along to others who you think would benefit from the content.

Emotionally Intelligent

Many-make that most-of us will argue that your EQ (emotional intelligence) will trump your IQ when it comes to getting things done.

I could not agree more.

Emotional intelligence was popularized by Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence in 1996. He suggested that EQ is composed of five components:

• Self-awareness - Understanding yourself
• Self-regulation - Controlling yourself
• Social skills - Working with others
• Empathy - Feeling for others
• Motivation - Drive

As you review these five traits, it quickly becomes evident that possessing these traits has a high degree of correlation to making an impact. In fact, I would argue that these five traits are SUFFICIENT to lead a life of SIGNIFICANCE:

• "Sufficient" defined here as:
  • If you have these conditions, the outcome is guaranteed.

• "Significance" defined here as:
  • Making a positive impact on others' lives

Think about it:

• If you have drive, are aware of others' feelings, work well with others, and understand and control your emotions, how can you NOT make a positive impact on others' lives?

That being the case, it seems obvious that emotional intelligence trumps traditional measures of intelligence. And, accordingly, it seems that a focus on EQ vs IQ would be quite prudent.

That brings us to this week's question:

• What are you doing to become more emotionally intelligent?

Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning.  

Have a great week!

Curt

About MMM: Each week I publish "Monday Morning Motivation" in the hopes that at least one person will find a bit of inspiration and that this inspiration will have a positive impact on their life. My motivation comes from experiences, reading, sermons, and discussions.

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