Emotions and Success
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- 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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