Be Honest With Yourself!

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."

 - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"You cannot fake a relationship and feel right with yourself or anyone else. Changing yourself to fit what you think other people want doesn’t work. [...]

Inspired Living

Together, as Americans, let's create the emotional support network to teach the world that EQ > IQ. Will you help?

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. [...]

EQ > IQ !!

that's it!that's what I want to say to the world…

EQ > IQ !!

High IQ is cool.High EQ is better.
Feelings are more important than thoughts.Feelings are us.Feelings can and will have more effect on our life.We are our Feelings.
And we can actually Make ourselves Smarter about our feelings…… that will effect us every second and every [...]

Propaganda

T-shirts for us, not them.
I'd like to make "stuff" – T-shirts, cups, pens, etc – with some cool sayings we have.

EQ > IQ

Feelings are Good!
Guilt is Optional.
Anger is second. What do you really feel?
Don't Eat That, find something better.
It's OK to have Boundaries.
I am not a Control Freak.
FEAR is Ok. Keep Going… [...]

The terrorists are winning…

Our country is a mess.
People feel alone.
People feel afraid.
People feel powerless.
Suicide rates are up.
The economy is bad, and getting worse.
People are really hurting.
But, I believe we can do something about it.
In general, we Americans are fairly clueless about how to handle, and manage, our Feelings & Emotions, yet…
Emotional Intelligence is the #1 key to Happiness, [...]

Let’s build the safest, most effective Emotional Support Network ever created!

10 Premises to Changing the World
1. Emotional Intelligence is the key to happiness, sanity and success in life. (EQ > IQ)
2. We all have 100% control over our choices in what we feel, and how we view the world.
3. It’s more fun if we do this life thing Together.
4. True emotional support is about [...]

Feelings are a Good Thing!

“Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.”
- Helen Douglas
“Too often we underestimate how quickly our feelings are going to change because we underestimate [...]

Giving is the key!

Aspire to inspire before you expire.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Spam Posts

I’m sorry, but my account it getting spammed, daily.
I’m in contact with TypePad tech support, and we’re taking every step to try to stop it, but have been unsuccessful so far.
If you’re a Feedblitz subscriber who gets an email of each past, please bear with us as we get this security breach plugged and ths [...]

Be Kind to Yourself

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.
Ann Wilson Schaef

2Get, Give!

2GiveHelp.com (proposed)
2Give, without Sacrifice
2Give, without Guilt
2Give, without Burden
you wanna REALLY enjoy your life… Give.
you wanna feel REALLY loved, and appreciated… Give.
you want to have TONS of friends, and people who know you and Like you… Give.
We can show you how…

Feelings are the Bomb!

I’m gonna make a Bold statement here…
are you ready…

Our Feelings & Emotions
are THE most important thing
in our Entire Lives!

“Feelings provide us with vital and potentially profitable information every minute of the day. This feedback from the heart, and not the head, is what ignites creative genius, keeps you honest with yourself, shapes trusting [...]

The 7 Steps to Healing our Feelings

How to Take Control of your Feelings and Emotions, One Step at a time.
By Matt Perelstein
July, 2008
Follow these 7 Simple (tho’ not Easy) steps to learn to “Deal with” your feelings & emotions, completely, effectively, and beautifully –
1 Awareness that we do Feel, a Lot: Get a Clue about the importance/depth of our feelings [...]

Do yourself a Favor!

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. “
- Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French Author and Philosopher
Wanna do yourself the biggest favor?
Want to give yourself the very best possible gift you can?
Get yourself to the New Directions workshop this weekend in Fresno, CA.
“Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.”
- Anthony [...]

Emotional Intelligence is the key!

Less Crazy, More Sane.
Less Different, More Same.
More Power. Less Blame.
More Joy, Less Pain.
- mcp

Emotional Intelligence can Help!

“We’re learning that emotional intelligence is an important ingredient in helping professional athletes live healthy and successful lives.”
“There is a massive correlation between high EQ skills and life success.”
- Gene Upshaw, Executive Director, National Football League NFL Players Association, Emotional Intelligence Helps NFL Players “Win at Life”
Improved EQ can help in sports, in business, in [...]

Know Thyself

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
- Carl Rogers
The greatest happiness is to know the source of our unhappiness.
- Dostoyevsky

You can heal your life

Awareness is the first step in healing or change.
- Louise Hay
What we think, and what we believe, is what will come true for us.
Our thoughts create our lives.
It’s that simple.
And when we get that,
we can make enormous changes.
- Louise Hay
“You can heal your life” DVD

Life Rules

Life only has 3 rules
Paradox
Life is a mystery, don’t waste time trying to figure it out
Humor
It is a strength beyond all measure.
Change
Know that nothing stays the same.
- Dan Millman, “Way of the Peaceful Warrior”

Extreme Emotional Makeover – Summer Intensive

Announcement:
We are sponsoring a powerful program this summer, to show the world how much learning and growth can happen in very short period of time!
If you are chosen, you will be given intensive therapy, life coaching, reading materials, 2 weekend workshops, emotional support, and more, to help you BLAST thru your emotional issues [...]

Happiness — it’s up to you!

“If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world;
change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
“No pessimist ever [...]

Emotional Choices

Most of us have more choices, emotionally, than we ever thought possible!

“When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really [...]

Confrontation: Everyone Hates it!

Want to get over your fear of confrontation? Learn how at Emotional Intelligence – Confronting What’s True
See also the Blog link on EQ At Work for lots of cool tools and articles re: EQ.
… and remember, and Dr. Phil says, “Attitude is Everything!”:
Victor Frankel, who faced death daily in a Nazi [...]

Laughter is good for your body!

No Joke: This Is Exercise
Laugh away ticker trouble.
from here.
University of Maryland Medical Center researchers showed 20 healthy adults two movie scenes–one from the comedy Kingpin, the other a battle scene from Saving Private Ryan–while monitoring artery function. After viewing the funny clip, the volunteers’ blood vessels dilated by 22%; they constricted by 35% after the [...]

PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

extremely common in soldiers returning from war…
from http://www.thesoldiersproject.org
Signs of possible trouble (Service Member)
Irritability, jumpiness
Anger easily and “blow up” at loved ones or friends
Feeling hyper-alert, needing to be careful, on the watch for danger
Feeling emotionally flat, uninvolved with people, distant
Feeling you can’t relate to life around you or to the concerns [...]

Laughter Heals!

Your Brain on Laughter
How clowning around improves memory, mood, and motivation
By Thomas Crook, PhD, Prevention
“A good knee-slapper produces a chemical reaction that instantly elevates your mood, reduces pain and stress, and boosts immunity (suppressed by both stress and pain). A recent fMRI study by Allan L. Reiss, MD, and colleagues at Stanford University traced this [...]

Change Your Belief System

"All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it’s costing you in [...]

Love is the Answer

“Remember, in our innermost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.”
- Deepak Chopra
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“When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully — in the deeply spiritual [...]

Attraction

“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”
- Deepak Chopra [...]