What Were You Expecting?

Written by Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach


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2.If you don’t over-extendrepparttar importance ofrepparttar 123210 event and predict negatively intorepparttar 123211 future, i.e., “my vacations are always lousy.”

3.If you don’t bring in other things that aren’t relevant, i.e., “I can’t plan a vacation or do anything right.”

4.Find things to enjoy despiterepparttar 123212 things that were disappointments. It’s a rare ANYTHING that’s 100% good OR bad.

Your expectation for perfection can make you miserable, and whatever you’re doing, it’s for sure your intent isn’t to feel miserable. When you have unrealistic expectations, you compound your problem, because in dealing with one problem, you create a worse one. It’s bad enough not to getrepparttar 123213 job, without blaming yourself, feeling devastated, and considering it part of a hopeless pattern of bad luck, incompetence, victim-ness, or your global ability to handle things.

Suit up, playrepparttar 123214 gamerepparttar 123215 best you can, shower and go home. This means managingrepparttar 123216 emotions around all of these steps. Getting what you want is important. It’s nice. It’s certainly preferable. But if you don’t get it, it isn’trepparttar 123217 end ofrepparttar 123218 world.

Resilience means being able to bounce back from disappointments, retaining your faith in yourself and hopes forrepparttar 123219 future. Understandrepparttar 123220 flow of things. Sometimes you’ll succeed, sometimes you’ll fail, and sometimes in retrospect, it will be hard to tellrepparttar 123221 difference.

About success and failure, Churchill said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it isrepparttar 123222 courage to continue that counts,” and “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”

So keep your enthusiasm by managing your expectations and using your emotional intelligence.

Lastly, one ofrepparttar 123223 best things you can learn is to enjoyrepparttar 123224 preparation. It’srepparttar 123225 one thing you can count on. I have one client who plans trips she doesn’t even take, because it’s so much fun. Another who purposely takes speaking engagements on topics she doesn’t yet have material on, so that she can learn and master something new in preparation.

If you have thoroughly enjoyedrepparttar 123226 preparation, then you have an extra part torepparttar 123227 whole package that’s under your control that can meet your expectations.

TAKE WITH YOU POINTS

Do how do you manage these disappointments?

1.Develop your emotional intelligence so you can manage your expectations and keep them realistic and manage your reactions to them.

2.Remain optimistic and resilient no matter whatrepparttar 123228 outcomes.

3.Consider that inrepparttar 123229 long run it may turn out to have been a good thing.

4.Learn to enjoyrepparttar 123230 journey as well asrepparttar 123231 destination, because they are two different things.

5.If you’re going to play, enjoyrepparttar 123232 game!

©Susan Dunn, MA, The EQ Coach, http://www.susandunn.cc . I offer coaching, distance learning courses, and ebooks around emotional intelligence. EQ is more important to your success, happiness and health than IQ, and it can be learned. Mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for FREE ezine.


Creative Thoughts

Written by Judi Singleton


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This is how manifestation works for all of us. Spirit -> Thought -> Emotion -> Effort -> Materialization

1.To manifest your dreams take a deep breath and relax.

2. Sit down and clearly state your desire in writing.(Why in writing because it takes it out of realm of ideas and makes it physical.}

3. Go inside yourself and think about your hearts desire. If you could only have one desire what would you manifest? Let your heart answer this question. 4. Put this written desire where you can see it daily. 5. Visulize seeing yourself already having this desire. Make this picture as life like as possible. Add allrepparttar senses if possible. Seeing,hearing,smelling,feeling,tastingrepparttar 123209 sucess. 6. Let go torepparttar 123210 Higher Power. 7. Have faith your Higher Power is manifesting this desire now.

Once you have done these things you will manifest your intents and desires easily.

About the Author: Judi Singleton is the publisher of Jassmine's Journal and the owner of Mother Earth publishing. She publishes A Light In The Window edition of Jassmine's Journal weekly you can subscribe to all her lists at http://www.motherearthpublishing.com


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