Emotional intelligence, General
Oh dearie me! The fear of the unknown. Cor lummy! Uncertainty. We don’t like it, do we? That’s the only thing we’re sure about! Our brains are hardwired to live in caves, and wrestle with saber-tooth tigers, both of which there’s not much call for these days! Well, not round [...]
Emotional intelligence, General
And this is nothing like a good chuckle… I expect you’ve got better things to do during the run-up to Christmas, than to read my blog! But just in case you’d like a break from wrapping, cooking, planning, negotiating, travelling etc, here’s some entertaining, interesting and funny stuff to keep [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Choose… And kill off all other options As with all the other ‘cide’s’, it’s from the Latin root, caedere “to cut, to kill”, Suicide… Fratricide… Fungicide….! Ever felt stuck? Overwhelmed with decisions, and feel like your brain’s ‘full’? Well – two great articles for you this week… Firstly, the second(!) article, by Paul Matthews [...]
Brain
Are you sure you want to multitask? While it may sound like a good idea to get several things done at once, it’s actually known to slow you down, not speed things up. What’s more, the quality of what you achieve deteriorates too. If you have any trouble concentrating, [...]
Emotional intelligence
Corrie fans will appreciate the frustration and heartache, of the currently incarcerated, Peter Barlow, portrayed by actor Chris Gascoyne. This is the bloke who committed bigamy (and somehow got away with it! That’s TV for you! Don’t try this at home!), is an alcoholic, keeps swapping girlfriends/wives (what do they [...]
Emotional intelligence
As you know, in “The Chimp Paradox”. Dr Steve Peters calls the emotional brain, the part that tells us how we feel, the “Chimp”. He likens the Chimp to owning a dog. You’re not responsible for the personality of the dog, but you are responsible for keeping it well behaved [...]
Emotional intelligence
The brain is a complex animal! As I describe in my Automatic Weight Loss online Training, for all our sophisticated science, much of it still remains a mystery. Fortunately, for our purposes, there are just 3 areas we’re interested in, and the roles of these three areas are very elegantly [...]
Emotional intelligence
Many of you are aware that we built a new house and that it was covered by Channel 4’s Grand Designs programme. And therefore many of you will know of the difficulties we overcame – not least of which were the... ahem... complications with the neighbours. (If ever there was [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
Watch this introduction to Emotionally Intelligent Communication and find out what it can do for you. If you know someone who might be interested in identifying and expressing their needs so that others really listen, and so they feel heard and understood, please let them know about this workshop. It’s a new course and I’m [...]
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