Emotional intelligence marks one’s ability to perceive, understand, control, and evaluate his or her emotions.
~ Susan C. Young
Haven’t you known people who seem to have a “sixth sense” super-power when it comes to connecting, communicating, and understanding others? These emotionally intelligent people always know the right things to say to make us feel that we matter.
Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior.
Create and nurture a mindset that works for you rather than against you.
Strive to be optimistic rather than pessimistic— forgiving rather than a grudge holder.
Strive to be a possibility thinker rather than an impossibility thinker.
Strive to be happy rather than downhearted or miserable—hopeful rather than resigned and doubtful.
Strive to be pleased and accepting rather than angry and resistant.
Strive to be daring and brave rather than reluctant or afraid.
Strive to be a proactive participant rather than a passive procrastinator.
Strive to be active rather than lethargic—determined rather than wavering or lazy.
When you make a deliberate effort to keep your thoughts positive, and authentically feel that way, more positive outcomes are inevitable.
Your mindset buffet is filled with possibilities that can feed your heart, mind, and soul if you will simply serve yourself and go for it! Choose wisely, my friends, choose wisely.
Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations filter how you see everything in your world—and here is the clincher—you get to choose!
Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality.
You wear your attitude. It is highly visible to every person you meet and shows up in the way act, live, and love.
Your attitude is hard to conceal, it's evident before you ever say hello.
Your attitude is the outward expression of your internal perceptions, self-esteem, and current thoughts.
Mindset and attitude are so tightly intertwined they almost mean the same thing!
Your attitude is the one thing in this world you have complete control over. You have full command. As empowering as that truth can be, there are some days we let down and give in to a bad attitude.
When you wake each day, it is your choice if you are going to use your attitude to your advantage or allow it to work against you.
If you want to fly high and go amazing places, your attitude is crucial.
Put yourself in the driver seat by designing the best attitude possible to help you get where you need and want to go.
Throughout my life, I have been blessed with a positive and resilient attitude. I grew up with an alcoholic father and he tested my disposition in more ways than you might imagine. Knowing I couldn't depend on him for positive reinforcement, I clung to my positive attitude like a life preserver to give me the strength for positivity and self-reliance. Otherwise, I would have sunk into the depths of low self-esteem and worthlessness. A positive attitude was my saving grace and it became a habit by choice, day-in and day-out.
At times, maintaining a positive attitude and outlook takes great risk, courage, toughness, and flexibility. It is not easy to stay positive in a cynical and negative world.
Remain vigilant and try diligently not to succumb to the soul-sucking, mind-numbing, ill-mannered attitudes that seem so prevalent in the world today.
I have known many people who have been incredibly successful in life. It was not necessarily because they had immense talent, brilliance, an expensive education, or exemplary skills. It was because they had an extraordinary attitude to take on life with love, passion, conviction, consistency, and hard work. What they all had in common was getting their minds right and becoming positive thinkers—which activated their potential to achieve remarkable things and build strong relationships.
Developing a positive attitude is one of the most transformational things you can do to shift your mindset, improve your disposition, manifest good things, and attract quality people into your life.
The benefits you will enjoy with a positive attitude have a multiplier effect and exponentially impact your personal well-being.
A positive attitude will not only make you more fun to be around, but it will bring more happiness and joy both into your life and the lives of those around you.
Surround yourself with positive people who ignite your energy and spirit.
Believe in your power to make happiness a choice—do so every day, until it becomes a lifelong habit.
A positive attitude feels a heck of a lot better than a negative one.
Learn to leverage the Law of Cause and Effect to your advantage in positive ways!
Many people go through life complaining, whining, and obsessing so much about what they don’t have that they are doing exactly what it takes to block it.
Would you like to feel a calm confidence when you walk into a room full of strangers, knowing that you can start new a conversation with anyone?
Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage.
To say your mindset is critical to your success is a gross understatement—it is the underpinning!
Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life’s experience.
Some people are like egg. The more you apply heat to them, the harder they become. To hatch them, just use a gentle heat, and to keep them alive, just keep them cool.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
