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Practice of Practice: Free Mini-Course
How do you get better and reach your goals? Practice! But what’s the best way? Here’s a free minicourse where you’ll find out, in just 5 emails
Read MorePersonal Growth
Emotional intelligence is a transformational skillset that fuels insight, connection, and purpose – and has been linked to both personal and professional growth and success.
Practicing Music: Creating Food for the Soul
Do you embrace “practice” in your life? Meet professional musician who’s gives away her practice time to enhance others.
Read MoreOlympic-Level Failure
Learning can be an awkward, even painful, process of repeated failure. What can an Olympic-level failure teach us?
Read MoreRewritten: How do we break a bad habit (and make good ones)?
How do we rewrite habits? Do you want to pen new, healthy ones or erase worn, harmful ones?
Read MoreIncrease Wellbeing Practicing Self-Compassion
Be compassionate… not just to others, but starting with yourself.
Read MoreThe Enthusiasm of the Desperate
Read More20 Outstanding Books on Emotional Intelligence
Here’s a wonderful collection of books about emotional intelligence, including six key concepts for every parent to share with children (and books to do so!)
Read MoreWhat’s Your Body Telling You?
Listening to What Our Bodies Are Telling Us – By Beth Offenbacker, PhD Have you ever been unsure how you feel about something? As I’ve gotten older, I find sometimes I live more “in my head” than sometimes I want to. And as someone with a brain preference for Rational data (see the Brain […]
Read MoreStepping Out of the Shadow of Perfect
How can we counter the shadow of perfectionism? Increasing self-compassion and empathy will free us to be our best.
Read MoreNot just SMART goals, setting CLEAR goals for success
Have you been making lists each day but not making progress? Most goals are missing and essential component: emotional intelligence. Power up your goal setting with EQ. By adding the CLEAR method for setting goals to your SMART goals routine, you’ll boost your effectiveness. With CLEAR methodology you can use emotional intelligence in goal setting […]
Read MoreEQ Stories: Coaching a Career Change
EQ Stories are profiles of people whose lives have been helped by emotional intelligence and Six Seconds’ coaching model. This story is from Six Seconds’ Marilynn Jorgensen, Master Coach/ICF Trainer. Why is emotional intelligence coaching so powerful? “Bill” is a senior leader who needed EQ: ” I was moving up in my career and yet […]
Read MoreThe Princess with the Glass Heart
When I was very small – probably about seven – I read a fairy tale about a princess who was born with a glass heart. In the story, this princess grew into a lovely young woman. Early one day, feeling joy at the sight of the first crocuses or daffodils or tulips in the palace […]
Read MorePhysiology of Emotion, Exercise, and Change
I was recently talking to a group about the fact that we can choose how we feel. “But didn’t you say emotions are an automatic biological response?” Yes, in fact, I did… but don’t we have choice about our biology? I remember years ago interviewing neurobiologist Debra Niehoff about the way some people seemed […]
Read MoreRight Speech by Eknath Easwaran
Karen McCown, Six Seconds’ Founder, handed this article to me several years ago. It’s stuck with me as a powerful set of guidelines for being impeccable with words. The children, Patty and I have discussed the “three gatekeepers” often over the last years; we started when the kids were 4 and 6 years old and […]
Read MoreDream Box & Leadership in the Depression
I have always loved little boxes, they’re all around our house and I have a collection near my desk. I’ve decided to make one a Dream Box in an attempt to stay hopeful. I’d like to say I’m not afraid to talk about this, but the truth is I am. I’m afraid that you will […]
Read MoreFinding Peace Amidst Holiday Stress
Finding Peace Amidst Holiday Stress – Tips for an “Emotionally Intelligent” Holiday Paradoxically, holidays are extremely stressful. Given all the bad news we’re facing in the economy, this year may be especially challenging. There are so many expectations, so much to accomplish, and so many feelings all rolled together. Holidays are rituals and we […]
Read MoreThe Princess with the Glass Heart
by Anabel Jensen, Ph.D. When I was very small — probably about seven — I read a fairy tale about a princess who was born with a glass heart. In the story, this princess grew into a lovely young woman. Early one day, feeling joy at the sight of the first crocuses or daffodils or […]
Read MoreBeginnings, Middles, Endings
Awareness of beginnings, middles, and ends helps projects, relationships, and events — at work, at school, at home, in love and in war. It seems that if we could become more effective in all three phases life would be a lot better!
Read MoreFight or Flow Part Two: “Water Is Stronger”
This second half of “Fight or Flow” explores the alternative to the kinds of “hitting back first” reactions discussed in part one. To constructively engage with emotions requires reframing the way we think — and feel — about feelings. It’s always amazed me that these heavy stones can move — float — on a cushion […]
Read MoreDare to Climb the Peak
Some of my former seventh graders are now on their way to college. It is exciting for me to think of my time as a teacher as part of the cycle of life — as part of the fabric of someone’s education. I was talking with one of these people just before she left for […]
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