And then pick up your mother from eldercare, and go home to a loving relationship in a strong marriage that nurtures two children?

You'll need emotional intelligence!

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN EQ IS LOW?

It’s expensive in terms of lost money, opportunity, time, relationships, promotions, careers, projects, goals, accomplishments, self-esteem, marriages, physical and emotional health, and even life.

–75% of careers are derailed for reasons related to emotional competencies –70% of reasons why customers and clients are lost are EQ-related –50% of time wasted in business is due to lack of trust –Seniors get worse in hospitals when physical therapists don’t engage with them –Counseling clients fail to change because their counselors lack empathy or optimism –50% of marriages fail –Suicide is 3rd leading cause of death for youths aged 15-4 in US –Think this is because of industrialized society? Think again. Samoa has highest suicide rate in world. –Impulsive boys are 3-6x as likely to be violent adolescents –Low levels of empathy predict poor school performance –Gifted children manifest a near “blindness” to social cues which leads to isolated and sad childhoods –Doctors with poor EQ skills get sued more –75-90% of visits to primary care physicians in US are due to stress-related problems –Pessimists live shorter, unhealthier, unhappier, lives, and are less likely to achieve their potential than optimists –College students in a study with same IQ and GPA who did not write down their career goals with Intentionality were 50% less successful 15 years later –Perfectionism is potent. Perfectionists produce better work, get better grades, get enormous positive feedback. Perfectionists also have a markedly higher suicide rate.

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO IMPROVE YOUR EQ?

*Work with an EQ coach. *Browse my website for resources, websites, books, articles *Take The EQ Foundation Course© (http://www.susandunn.cc/courses.htm) *Subscribe to “It’s About My Personal & Professional Development” and “EQ in Workplace” ezines. *Check out http://www.eiconsortium.org for latest research and writing, and also research data confirming positive results EQ training can bring to an individual and also to an organization.

You know there's more involved in success and happiness than cognitive skills alone. Why not investigate possibilities!

Remember first time you tried to ride a bicycle? Or, roller skate? Remember how your rear end felt first few times skating? I bet if you went out today to ride a bicycle you wouldn't fall. Why? Cause you remember what you learned. And, you would do it same way.

Now, if you retry something that was really difficult in past, and do it very same way you did it when it succeeded, it would be just as easy as first time if you had known all numbers first time.

Other Things Being Equal!

Success is not really that hard, it's just sneaky. It's like playing "hide n seek" when you were a kid. And, success is always one doing hiding. It won't run from you, but it sure will make you work to find it. And, when you do find it, it will have been like that proverbial snake that was so close all time it could have bit you.

On other side of this coin, if you could see yourself going through exact same strategy second time around, that you followed first time around, it would be just as difficult second time. In fact, it would be an instant replay of first scenario.

But, don't let inner voice inside your head talk you into lowering your goals so low that it virtually guarantees success. It is nice to succeed but, that kind of push over success leaves our inner sense of accomplishment feeling as ugly as a mud fence.

Every objective will have a series of combination steps that have to be taken in order to assure success. And, in order to have success guaranteed in all cases, you would have to know all things before you start. How often has that happened for you?

In process of achieving your objective, you will have thoughts about yourself and you will say things about yourself. Those things will determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective think earnestly for one reason why you can do it, rather than hundred or so reasons why you can't.

The first and foremost combination number is always this! The right attitude. It amazes me how I ever thought I could succeed at anything in life with a lousy attitude. And, I've learned that to be consistently successful, I have to work on "attitude" more than all other parts of goal.

To unlock combination of success, you must find all relevant numbers. The whole combination is solved much smoother when number one combination is right.

Do This Bright And Early!

If you want to see major failures turn into major successes, and who doesn't, work on big 3 first. Attitude, attitude, attitude. Once these three are in line, you will be amazed at how easy remaining combination numbers show up to open your safe to success.

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