How often have you thought to yourself, “I could do that so much better!” but you just sit back and let every one think you’re the quiet one in the corner who just accepts what is happening. There have been so many times when I have watched as people have done a job that I know I was capable of doing, but I was just too shy to put myself forward and have a go. Well now it is time to stand up for you and be the person you can be!
To be calm is mentally to be free from agitation, excitement, or disturbance. Calmness can happen for any of us during a state of relaxation; however we can also find it in an aware state too. At times we will find that focusing our mind on something external, or even internal, like our breathing, can be very calming.
We are all guilty of procrastinating at some stage in our attempts to achieve our goals. In his book “Eat that frog”, Brian Tracy uses an old metaphor to help people overcome their procrastination. The metaphor says, if the first thing you do in the morning is to eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s probably the worst thing you’ll do all day.
When was the last time you truly expressed yourself? The time you let everybody realise how you felt and what you’re about. Give yourself a few minutes to think when it was! As you think about it, recall a few more details, such as what exactly happened, who was there, if anybody, where did it happen, how did it happen.
Over the last few years, emotional intelligence has been recognised as being as important as intellectual ability for success in business, relationships and life in general.
Intelligence measured by logical, mathematical and linguistic ability is not sufficient on its own to define how successful someone will be in business.
Anger Management is the name of a film made in 2003 and starred Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson. In the film Adam Sandler plays a calm and unassuming businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger-management program; whilst on the program he meets his worst nightmare, an aggressive instructor.