I want to get better at managing how I feel. I want to get better at managing how I perceive others feeling. I want to get better at helping and understanding someone elses feelings. This month, I will be focusing on emotional intelligence.
It is critical to understand how people are feeling because our feelings color everything that we do. How you say something as simple as help sends something out into the world. Most of the time I think I catch myself saying or doing something emotionally wrong but I don’t have any metrics or proof. My thoughts about ego lead me to believe that I don’t catch it at all, but I am forgetting the times I don’t and remembering the times that I do.
Some early goals for this month include
- Meditation – I have to reinstall my meditation practice. this is something I find difficult, because I can do it for a few days, then I drop it once, and then it goes away. I had that same trouble with this blog but since February I have been great at daily posts. I hope my experience there translates into helping me with this.
- Gratitude – I don’t appreciate what I have and it has led me down a path I don’t like. I want to improve my gratitude. I heard about the 5 minute journal, so I want to make it to see what changes I feel.
- Thank You – I want to say thank you to someone once a week, without them doing something for me presently. I would prefer long form, but any format would do. I wouldn’t mind Twitter or Facebook if it got the job done. No reply necessary either, I just want to get into the act of doing.
Many other things should come from this month, because I plan on researching and reading to see where I should go with this. If you have any ideas, please, fire off a tweet @thehonorableAT – including teachers,coaches,books, or articles. I will start cataloging them.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 