Emotional Intelligence Certification Self Management Level 2

Self Management is about optimizing the experience. Dealing with emotions in an appropriate fashion. This course will delve deeply into the aspects of self management in the business world and your personal life.

Pursue targets with intensity and concentrate on high value objectives.

Learn how to eliminate distractions and tangents. If you can write the goal down, you can create task definition. Then remove clutter. Turn off the phone. Do not let urgent things push out important tasks.

Keep on Mission. Do not waste time on meaningless activities. You would be surprised at how many useless tasks we work on in a day.

Learn the SMART System for creating spectacular results.

Many people want to be in charge, but they can not take care of themselves. They can't self-lead. What are your internal drivers? Do you know your strengths and weaknesses? Are you self aware? What are you good at?

Learn to manage those exchanges between the rewards you are receiving. Intrinsic versus extrinsic rewards. Self Motivation comes from how you feel about what you want to do.

Do you have a positive outlook? The P's of Passion help you see things a certain way. Pessimists foretell the future. They choose not to act. Exercising optimism creates serendipity and helpful opportunities are drawn to you.

Life's success is about keeping the important things in balance. If you lack balance, your success is limited. How is your health? How is your professional life? How is your family life? Where do you live? 

Your mind creates a set of patterns which dominate how you look at things and react to life. Your mindset will be different from another person's so it is important you understand your mindset and that of the other person if you want good communication.

People buy from those they know, like, and trust. This applies in all areas of life.

The foundations of credibility relate to the level of trustworthy. People who intend to tell the truth become more trustworthy.

How likeable are you? What do you do to be likeable? Are you listening? Are you focused on others?

No stress is not good, but too much stress causes its own problems. Performance drops when over stresses.

Shift emotional control to your conscious mind from the subconscious mind. We often direct a lot of our energy in the wrong direction. Effort and energy are two of our biggest resources along with Time. We want to get the biggest return on our energy.

Some activities do show how you deal with stress?

We live in a fast changing world. We deal with more uncertainty

We are used to repeating behaviors in answer to problems that are the same. But as the world changes, these mental structures work poorly. How do we become more flexible?

No longer do we live a world where you learn one skill set and that will serve you for the rest of your life. We need to continually learning, adapting and shifting your direction in life.

Organizations ask "How can we generate sustainable consistent success?" There have been lots of answers that do not work. More and more organizations are saying their employees are less productive and engaged. Yet, companies do not focus on creating more excitement in their business. 

We used to think people who talked to themselves were crazy. We all talk to ourselves. Our inner dialogue is very important to our state of mind and also our success or failure. We often tell ourselves the wrong things.

In this lecture, we go over positive self talk and its impact on our confidence and our life.

Most people are Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic learners. 90% of the information your brain gets is visual. Sensory detail is essential. The more concrete you can make the imagery the better.

Stories affect our brain in many ways. What types of stories do you tell yourself?

Attention spans are dropping, but they do not have to. We are drowning in a sea of information which is all very distracting. Learn the 4 P's for IMproving Attention Spans. 

Discover the recall system. Repeat, Rephrase, Restate. You are more likely to recall something if you follow the lessons in this lecture.

Are you reactive or proactive? 

GRIT is something that you develop. It is not innate, nor a talent. Everyone goes thru tough times. For many people, this is how they strengthen their G.R.I.T.