Last year maybe it was a layoff, a forced retirement, depression, or sending your firstborn off to college. This year it may be major surgery, marriage, a promotion, or having your first child. Learning Emotional Intelligence competencies will make you better able to cope with whatever comes your way and will assist you through all your transitions.

The quicker we can change, and adapt, more resilient we’ll be!

Start year off right by honing your Emotional Intelligence competencies. Take an EQ Foundation course, and work with a certified EQ coach.

Your health depends upon it!

It’s sure stress-buster for when cookies burn, when you’ve got your hands full and phone rings and it’s another telemarketer from great Commonwealth of India, when you get flu day of best Christmas party of year, when a major appliance breaks down in month of December, or when you’ve been notified special gift you ordered isn’t going to make it in time.

Keep your sense of humor! Lighten up and let your light shine. We all needs smiles and hugs this time of year … and lots of laughter.

To help you ‘get’ this, editor of “EQ and You” eZine suggests a sprinkling of music. "Listen to that girl laughing during 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas,' by Ras Family ( http:/ inyurl.com/y6sp )," says Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach™. "Internalize it, and apply it liberally. Spread some Joy to World!"