Emotions and Success
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- Optimism for Upward Spirals in Life
- In Pride we Ride
- How to put Jealousy on a Leash
- Smiling in 42 Languages
- Massage Therapy for Broken Egos
- Love and the Appreciation Factor
- 10 Powerful Strategies for Dealing with Heartache
- Guilt and her Emotional Cousins
- Music and Emotional Rollercoasters
- Laughter is the Best Medicine
- Emotional Blackmail and Freedom
- Betrayal and the Enemy
- Exposed: Loneliness in a Busy World!
- How to Harness the Power of Positive Emotions
- Why Unclench and Release Negative Emotions?
- How to Boost your Emotional Intelligence by 300%
Welcome to the Emotional Series. In this series we shall look at how positive and negative emotions affect our success. Many people, especially men shy away from talking about emotions. Yet emotions influence our energy levels and success. I will be exploring this subject for the first time in my life and would love you to join me in this journey.
An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior. Answers.com defines emotions as a mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort. Emotions are a complex subject that has been defined and examined by many researchers. We shall only be looking at a few emotions and trying to understand how they affect our success.
Emotional Intelligence
Salovey and Mayer (1990) defined emotional intelligence (EI) as “the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.”
This series will be about improving our emotional intelligence for success in all spheres of life.
- Perceiving emotions – this means detecting and making sense of emotions. It means identifying your emotional states.
- Using emotions – harnessing emotions to change your mood, think or take action.
- Understanding emotions – comprehending how emotions relate to each other and how they evolve.
- Managing emotions – harnessing our own emotions and those of others to achieve the desired goals. It means directing emotions (positive and negative ones) towards attainment of your goals (success).
Positive and Negative Emotions
Emotions can be positive or negative. They range from joy, passion, and hope to anger, jealousy and guilt.
Some positive emotions include: Able, Accepted, Accepting, Accomplished, Accountable, Achieving, Adequate, Affluent, Ambitious, Appreciated, Assertive, Authentic, Awesome, Balanced, Beautiful, Blessed, Brave, Bright, Brilliant, Calm, Capable, Caring, Certain, Cheerful, Cherished, Comfortable, Committed, Compassionate, Complete, Composed etc
Negative emotions include: Ashamed, Criticized, Disrespected, Embarrassed, Humiliated, Inferior, Insulted, Invalidated, Controlled, Imprisoned, Inhibited, Forced, Manipulated, Abandoned, Alone, Brushed off, Confused, Discouraged, Ignored, Insignificant, Invisible, Abused, Afraid, Attacked, Defensive, Frightened, Insecure, Intimidated, Cynical, Guarded, Skeptical, Suspicious, Untrusting etc
Summary
As you can see, there are very many types of emotions, both positive and negative. We shall be looking of ways of harnessing our emotions for success.
If you have a suggestion of the kind of emotions to tackle in this series, I would love to hear from you either on the comments form or on the contact form on the blog.
Kind Regards.
Daniel Ngari
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Hi Daniel.Good job with the blog.i got the info abt if from a friend and can see how like-minds think alike.sharing is the only way to make the world a better place.and you are sure doing it quite well.you never know u are probably changing lives more than you can imagine.keep up and don’t give up.cheers!
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Ngari i dnt know whr i hv bn.gud articles its true emotions rly play alot in our sucees.thax fr ur artcle.
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very nice artical…………………………… one question for u daniel.
Is it good to let emotions controle us?
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thank u .
dear daniel Ngari
You give me the right value of success
you give me the right directions that i should to strive
i like your articles.
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ur site is not only important.but its life-changing.its close to ‘from information to understanding’ Emotions is a full aspect component of the soul an talking about it will help millions.commented on another piece but waiting,qoute ‘moderation’ thanxs for the truth in ur articles.ron
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Great series am sure, emotions are like ‘fuels’ that can either drive us closer or farther away from our dreams. Looking forward to reading what you have prepared in this series….we are waiting!
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Daniel Ngari Reply:
April 4th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
@ Joy – Thanks for your comment. Emotions have the uncanny ability to lead one to success or failure. If not properly checked, they can lead to destruction of what one has worked to build. They also determine what action if any, one takes towards success.
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I think this is an interesting series.. can’t wait to read what we all think about emotions. of course men and women differ in their way of understaning and its always good to have both sides of the story….
God help us and we go through this series..
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Daniel Ngari Reply:
April 4th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
@ Paula – I will try and highlight different emotions that affect both men and females. This is not a topic that men discuss in the pub, I guess I have to go beyond my comfort zone to write all the articles in this series (as a man). Looking forward to reading your comments as the series progresses.
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