·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.

Emotional Intelligence consists of a set of life skills you can learn that will help you manage your emotions better.

Individuals who start developing their EQ notice improvements in their lives immediately in terms of relationships, work and social life. They also experience a great sense of relief, because it supplies “missing piece”. As one client said, “Now I know what’s going on. The rest is easy.”

You can take a test that will tell you where your strengths and weaknesses are here: http://tinyurl.com/z750 . Find out, and then take action. You have nothing to lose but more losses.

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4. Redirect their idealism when it gets in way of their day-to-day functioning.

Help them find a time and place for it. Empathize with feelings. Turn them back to task.

5. Don't put them in positions such as quality control unless you want to explain difference between "perfect" and "good enough" a million times.

6. Assign them teaching and mentoring tasks.

Their gentle personalities make them a natural at this. They're usually excellent at cooperative goals

7. If you give them a management task, remind them they can't just think or say how it should be, and should be done, they will have to get people to do it – human beings who engage in human error, who may not want to, or don’t know how to.

In other words, it will involve getting their hands dirty.

8. Let them be go-betweens.

If they understand project and mission, they make wonderful ambassadors and diplomats. They don't need to be representing a nation, they'll do this with dignity and excellence within your family and organization.

9. When you ask them something, add at end, "And how would we do this in practical steps?"

Else they'll stay up in their head. Do NOT reward them for perfectionism. Excellence, yes. Perfect? It's only, well, an ideal, yes?

10. Keep them from devoting an undue amount of time to underdog. Unless that's their job, of course.

Let them know that's your job (or someone else's within your organization or family). They're natural-born advocates, making great coaches, lawyers, social workers, teachers, and mediators.