This is part 1 of a series on Social Awareness, which is the third aspect of emotional intelligence. You can learn to be more socially aware. Doing so will change your life.

This episode is about reading a room by paying attention to what or who other people are looking at. This is an aspect of social awareness which is another part of emotional intelligence discussed in previous episodes

Have you ever been on the receiving end of a verbal attack that seemed too excessive for the situation? When that happens, it feels as if you have just been hit by a runaway bus careening out of control down the street. You didn’t see it coming and the impact has left you bruised and bloody with your own emotional storm.

Is right defined because of the context of my situation? At what point does our context redefine right and wrong? Should our context define right or is “right” an absolute concept?

Check out this episode to find out.

If your boss asks you to do something, unless it is unethical or immoral, DO IT! Do whatever is asked of you with excellence and do it ahead of schedule. Let me repeat that: Do whatever is asked of you with excellence and do it ahead of schedule.

This is part four in a four part series dealing with learning how to practice self-management and gain better control of your emotions and your life. If you haven’t listened to the first three episodes in this series I encourage you to go back and check them before you listen to this episode.

This is part three in a four part series dealing with learning how to practice self-management and gain better control of your emotions and your life. In this episode I’m going to share with you two more techniques that are effective in giving you better self-management of your emotions.

What I’m going to cover in the next few episodes is how to manage yourself so that you will have a better chance at controlling your emotions before they hijack you and start controlling you. Not eliminate them, but control them so that they don't control you. So I'm going to share with you two methods for controlling your emotions in this episode.

In this episode, I'm going to build off the information I shared in previous episodes about self-awareness. If you haven’t listened to those episodes, I encourage you to go back and do so. Both self-awareness and self-management are part of Emotional Intelligence. Self-awareness is foundational to Emotional Intelligence and unless you are making progress in that area, what I will be sharing in about Self-Management won’t be as effective for you. However, if you want to truly become more emotionally intelligent you will hit a barrier unless you can practice effective self-management.

Garbage in/Garbage out is an older phrase introduced in the early days of computers. It meant that if the data that was entered into a computer program was incorrect, then the final reports would be equally incorrect. “Fake News” falls into this category as well. In earlier days this was labeled propaganda and was intentionally used to manipulate whole populations. Sadly, that is still the case in far too many instances.