I’m Scared.
I’m really scared. I’m scared that people are hurting out there, and we have some keys to healing, but they don’t know that, and keep on hurting because of us. Because of our inability to sum it up, and get the point across. succinctly, powerfully and life-changingly. We don’t even have much for sale.We’re not [...]
Make People Feel Important
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life." – Mary Kay Ash
Showing Feelings
"Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." – Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman and Literary Figure "Be an all-out, not a hold-out." – Norman Vincent Peale You know how people are often trying to Hide their feelings from others?? Well, much of the time, I actually WANT people [...]
I don’t get angry, I get even (a joke)
Here is a great definition of Passive-Aggressive Behavior. I think this is also a good example of: I don’t get angry, I get even. CURTAIN RODS—- PRICELESS She spent the first day packing her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases. On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things. On the [...]
Emotional Results
Commit to yourself that you will persue a course of Emotional Intelligence and understanding. Give it a few years (2-4) and I guarentee results. massive, life-enhancing, incredible results. Depending on how deep and ingrained your "issues" are, it may take as many as 5 or even 7 years. but so what? do you have something [...]
Feeling Safe
“Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are — chaff and grain together — certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath [...]
Say it in any language, just Say it!
Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell your co-workers. even tell your boss (if appropriate). Imagine leaving this earth without having told all the people you love how you really feel! English I Love You Spanish Te Amo French Je T’aime German lch Liebe Dich Japanese Ai Shite Imasu Thai Phom rak khun Italian Ti [...]
Building a Healthy Self-Esteem
Building a Healthy Self-Esteem (article) http://www.happynews.com/news/672007/building-healthy-self-esteem.htm Here’s a good article on being "real" with your kid. Positive, definitely. Over-Positive, no. (but over-positive still beats over-negative!). Here are some excerpts from this article so you’ll get the point… "Few things are more important to a child’s personal growth than having a healthy self-esteem. We help our [...]
Benefits of Emotional Intelligence (2)
"Does emotional intelligence help boost sales, improve customer satisfaction, reduce turnover, increase safety, and enhance productivity?" by Joshua Freedman, EQ Teacher, extraordinaire! . Sales When I ask sales people in all kinds of businesses for the key to their effectiveness, the first answer is "relationships." So if emotional intelligence is essential to building good relationships, [...]
Take Time To Trust
Oftentimes leaders attempt to quantify or qualify the time they spend with their staff or even their children! We hear, “I invested hours of quality time to train that individual”, or “It takes years of dedicated training to produce a worthy employee”, or even “I’m such an awesome leader that I don’t even need to [...]
Compassion and Understanding
t "When we experience the pain of another person, we instinctively want to take away that pain. But by taking away the other person’s pain, we also take away his or her opportunity to grow. To be truly compassionate, we must be able to share another person’s suffering and pain — knowing there is nothing [...]
Connections
Connections are the Key The only way to find true Happiness is in your connections with others. It may be only 1 person, or even a pet. But imagine having NO Connections with any living creature… Yikes. Connections = Relationships “Every dollar you’ve ever made. And every dollar you ever will make. Is based on [...]
Cocky & Funny2
I got this from a How to Get a Date site… which means it’s their basic Law of Attraction. The formula is: COCKY+FUNNY Cocky alone is not attractive. Arrogance repels people like bad breath. But a FUNNY arrogance… Ahhh, that’s the stuff that miracles are made of. from http://www.datingdummies.com/archive/article_9-17.htm
How Journaling Keeps You Healthy
Studies show writing about traumatic events helps you recover and move on. Here’s how. When James W. Pennebaker, M.D., faced a stressful time in his marriage, he began journaling. “There are dozens of features to a relationship,” he says. “Journaling helps to slow things down and put them in perspective.” Journaling helped him understand what [...]
What’s Wrapped Around Your Heart?
How do you keep your past relationships wrapped around your heart? Make a list of old loves, what was cool about them (what attracted you to them), what happened (in a word or two), what you learned from that experience and then see how you feel toward each one now. Is there any residual hurt, [...]
Control your Feelings, Control your Life.
Control your Feelings, Control your Life! The key is to learn about your FEELINGS “If you know what you feel, you’ll know who you are!” – Doc Downing, PhD, MSW, LMFT We teach a intensive weekend workshop called New Directions… been teaching it now for over 17 years. 4 states, hundreds of classes, thousands of [...]
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