Believe in Yourself

“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”

- Orison Swett Marden

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

- e. e. cummings

If we don’t believe in ourselves, chances are no one else is going to, either. You first.

Feelings are the Key!

Helping you understand how emotions have a direct and profound effect on how well you perform on the job and in life, this book presents great techniques to advance emotional self-awareness and tips on building self-esteem and confidence.

- By Jeff Feldman and Karl Mulle (Books24×7)

Put Emotional Intelligence to Work: Equip Yourself for Success

Waving Wednesday

The #1 easiest way to bring a smile to someone’s face, with the least effort from you, is to WAVE to them. Yes, just smile a bit and move your hand back and forth, and PRESTO! you could make someone’s day.

So, it’s Waving Wednesday.
Wave to someone you don’t know.

Everyone wins.

Caring for Ourselves, first

When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be towards others.

- Eda LeShan

Anything good for you brings out the best in you and does not force you to make believe you are something you are not.

- Alan Cohen

When you are inspired by some great purpose,some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

- Patanjali

Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.

- Cheri Huber

Anger Management Skills That Work

Anger issues affect individuals from childhood to adulthood, and it is necessary to teach anger management skills that work for every age group.

One skill that tends to help people deal with negative emotions is acupressure….

Adopting positive anger management skills might involve keeping a journal….

Removing yourself from a threatening situation might eliminate the problem….

Adopting anger management skills that work is definitely an essential step when striving to cope with feelings of rage and anger.

read on…

Get High on Happiness

‘Knowing Thyself’ Can Lead to Happiness

Powerful tools to a joyous life are being in touch with your inner self, God, and spirituality.

Imagine you bought a new car and after six months it starts to get very sluggish. You take it to the mechanic and he recommends a good wash and wax.

“What? Are you crazy? There’s an internal problem,” you say.

“Okay,” he says, “how about putting on some of those fancy rims?”

Believe it or not, this is what we do with something even more precious than a new car. When people are feeling negative, sad, or unresourceful, they often opt for an easy superficial solution that is more of a distraction than a cure. Go to a movie, have a drink, eat some ice cream. Sleep.

These band aids don’t address the core issue. The reason why we opt for them is because we really aren’t used to delving into our insides. If you are able to get in touch with what’s on the inside, it’s a very useful thing to do.

read on…

Understanding Emotions Improves Our Food Choices

Pictures Of Hot Fudge Sundaes Arouse Emotions!

Authors Blair Kidwell, David M. Hardesty, and Terry L. Childers (all University of Kentucky) examined the “emotional intelligence” of consumers, including obese people. They found that people who made the healthiest choices had high correlations between their emotional intelligence and confidence in their emotional intelligence—what the authors call “emotional calibration.”

“Faced with choices between healthy and unhealthy food options, individuals who are confident that they can appropriately interpret and employ their emotions, but who do not actually possess these emotional abilities, are likely to make low-quality decisions.”

read article in Science Daily.

Who uses Emotional Intelligence in Business?

The answer … we all do!

Our emotions help us to adapt and make sense of situations.

The evidence that an individual’s feelings affects others and that these feelings in turn affect performance highlights the importance of being aware of and managing our emotions. Leaders, salespeople, parents – anyone concerned with their influence on others.

Individuals Are Hired For IQ And Fired For Low EQ (Emotional Intelligence)

read on…

CEOs Value EQ over IQ

“How bosses train to be the best”

Generally, CEOs assume there is a certain base level of IQ among all corporate leaders. Most therefore value emotional intelligence (EQ) over IQ as a way of discriminating between great leaders. However, with a few notable exceptions, CEOs do not have a deep understanding of emotional intelligence and have not invested in developing their own EQ.

The human body can experience a vast array of emotions. Daniel Goleman, author of Destructive Emotions, written in conjunction with the Dalai Lama, documents an estimate by Tibetan Buddhists that they can attain 34,000 distinct emotional states. To put that in context, research undertaken by Cardiac Coherence on CEOs indicates rather worryingly that an average CEO will manage fewer than 15 of these states in a typical 24-hour period. It seems clear that there is much for CEOs to learn about emotions.

The secrets of CEOs

To love and Be loved

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

- George Sand

Emotions

“No other personal characteristic of the Self has such a clear line of connection to the Soul than emotions.”

“Anger is a legitimate feeling and emotional expression. We can use anger to help and heal or we can use anger to manipulate and destroy. Anger can distance us from others. Anger can connect us to others. “

Read on…
http://projectsoldierhelp.blogspot.com/2008/09/emotions.html

Choices

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

- Wayne Dyer

This may be new information for some folks! But it’s true that we are where we are, and who we are, due to the choices we have made in the past. We may be pleased with some of them, and not so pleased about some of them. The thing to remember is that you probably were only able to do as you did, with the information you had available to you at the time.

We do the best we can with what we know.
Therefore, the more we know, the better our best can be!

- mcp

Learn to be Aware

“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.”

- Beryl Markham

Who am I? What’s important to me? What do I feel strongest about? To answer this, we must first learn to become more aware of ourselves and our feelings. To be aware, we must STOP and PAY ATTENTION! We need to STOP and objectively watch ourselves in action. Become conscious. What we don’t know can hurt us.

We live most of our lives by habit. These habits are often unconscious and keep us stuck in patterns that limit our experience of life. Once we detect a pattern we were previously unconscious of, we can choose differently, if we want. Then, and only then, can we change. With awareness comes choice and with choice, we gain FREEdom!

“To be authentic is literally to be your own author …, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.”

- Warren G. Bennis

“Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives.”

- Vernon Howard

Awareness is the FIRST key to all change. Find, Discover and Uncover new dimensions of who you are. Find your power in the immediate moment. Open to your own inner wisdom.

Develop self trust. Develop self acceptance. Develop self expression.

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