EQ Gangster

When is the last time you allowed yourself to feel unpleasant emotions?   How "good are you" at allowing yourself to feel unpleasant emotions?   How are your energy levels when you're feeling unpleasant emotions?   What is the quality of your decision making when you're not feeling good?   What are some productive ways to allow yourself to feel unpleasant emotions? Take care of yourself.   Allow y...

How would you define "good, healthy relationships"?    Everyone's answer is probably going to be different based on your personality and current level of emotional intelligence.   What type of relationship has brought the best out of you?   What type of relationship has maximized your performance?   One major point to mention regarding the connection between relationships & performance is motive....

What is the connection between performance and relationship?   How do relationships affect / impact performance?   Have you ever experienced a negative or toxic relationship? How did that impact your performance?    What relationships impacted your performance positively?    How can you be more intentional at deepening & developing your relationships to maximize both your's & their performance?   ...

Each of our dreams & goals has certain associated risks.   Have you done a risk-reward analysis of the dreams & goals you're currently pursuing?   Have you done an emotional assessment / evaluation of the risks attached to your goals & dreams?   Emotions, whether we're aware of them or not, impact our every decision & behavior.   Do your emotions control you or are you in charge of your emotions?...

God told us to sell the house…and that was it.   This episode is very closely related to the last episode.   I get sooo emotionally attached to every single property we visit…CO, MT, ID, SD…   I've gotten frustrated at that.   It's exhausting to feel & experience emotions…   If you're new to your emotional growth journey, give yourself plenty of grace, space & patience as you begin to allow yourse...

What's impacting your ability to trust or not trust?    What are the consequences of your ability or inability to trust?    What is the relationship between trust & your desire to control?    How does control serve you?    How is a lack of trust impacting your relationships?    It has seemed to stunt the growth of any relationship where I don't trust.    Have you been burned before in relationship...

The ups & downs of being a leader and entrepreneur.   Growing your emotional capacity.   Resilience—the ability to handle adversity, failure, change & pressure in a positive way. -John C. Maxwell   Stress & anxiety affects us physically, mentally & emotionally.   The Resilient Entrepreneur handbook: eqforentrepreneurs.com/tre   How resilient are you?   Unaddressed emotional issues don't get better...

1.) You have no boundaries, so you cross others boundaries and are typically completely unaware that you're doing it (ask me how I know) AND you allow yourself to be mistreated and/or walked on or over b/c you have no boundaries for yourself either.   2.) You don't know where you begin & end and where someone else begins and ends so you can get into codependent & very emotionally needy relationshi...

How frequently do you get triggered?   How intensely do you get triggered?   Are you aware of why you're triggered?   How quickly do you realize you're triggered?   How long does it take for you to come down off your "trigger"?   Do you have more emotional injuries to work on that you're unaware of?   How do you know?   How can you be sure?   How do you know if you've healed an emotional injury?  ...

How often do you get triggered?   How intensely do you get triggered?   How long do you stay triggered?   When do you become aware that you're triggered? What have you learned about yourself when you get triggered?   For those ready to take your emotional health & emotional intelligence to the next level, check out EQforEntrepreneurs.com/eqa   For those interested in taking a scientific assessment...

In every single relationship we have, we are both delivering our emotional intelligence or lack thereof and on the receiving end of the emotional intelligence or lack thereof.    How teachable are you?   Scale from 1-10?   Is it important to you to be teachable?   Could you be more teachable?   What are some things that impact one's teachability?   maturity pride hubris humility curiosity  values...

Hassan has worked extensively with both the military and the private sector for 15 years.   We are able to impact and grow our emotional intelligence.   Are your current behaviors serving you most effectively?   If not, you can choose different behaviors by intentionally growing your EQ. Our emotional health impacts us professionally AND personally.   Some folks see positive EQ growth at home whic...

How I've lost 45 lbs in 7 months   How I've been consistent at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for the past 7 mos   How my physical health has been impacted by my emotional health   The massive breakthrough Kathy had this week after 20 years of being unaware and self-sabotaging.   How her unhealthy abandonment issues affected her physical health.   For EQi Scientific Assessment  www. EQforEntrepreneurs.com/tr...

Are you wholehearted?   What are the consequences of not being wholehearted?   How do you become wholehearted?   What do you want?   When you're dead & your loved ones are giving your Eulogy, what will they say about you? What do you want them to say about you?   When do you feel death?   When do you feel loved? Finish this sentence, "I am loved when _________________."   Where do we avoid or enga...

Write down the areas in your life causing you stress & anxiety.   List all the emotions surrounding each of those areas causing stress.   Set timer for 1 min and allow yourself to feel each of the individual emotions in each of the areas causing stress for 1 min on each emotion.   Write a letter to each of the people that may be causing you stress. Don't feel as if you need to actually give the le...

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EQ Accelerator Course: https://www.eqforentrepreneurs.com/eqa   FREE E-BOOK "THE RESILIENT ENTREPRENEUR" https://www.eqforentrepreneurs.com/treguide     TAKE THE TACO QUIZ: https://www.eqforentrepreneurs.com/tacoquiz   SUBMIT A QUESTION/TOPIC FOR THE SHOW: https://www.eqforentrepreneurs.com/askaway   EQ FOR ENTREPRENEURS FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/eqforentrepreneurs/  

Some of West Point's newer leader development programs   West Point's Return To Learn program    Concussion Protocols   Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence model   Relationship between EQ and optimal human performance   Self-regulation   Confidence   5 Different Mental Skills performance mindset confidence imagery attention control / self-regulation goal setting   So many developmental lessons...

EQ Accelerator Course: https://www.eqforentrepreneurs.com/eqa   FREE E-BOOK "THE RESILIENT ENTREPRENEUR" https://www.eqforentrepreneurs.com/treguide     TAKE THE TACO QUIZ: https://www.eqforentrepreneurs.com/tacoquiz   SUBMIT A QUESTION/TOPIC FOR THE SHOW: https://www.eqforentrepreneurs.com/askaway   EQ FOR ENTREPRENEURS FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/eqforentrepreneurs/   EQ FOR EN...

A few interesting stories of "friends".    How do you define "friendship"?   How do you define "friend"?   What kind of friend are you?   Are you the type of friend you want?    Have you verbalized your friendship expectations?    Have you not verbalized your friendship expectations and still expect your "friends" to meet that unspoken standard they don't know about nor have they agreed to it?   W...

Over 20 years in business   Over 10 different start-up businesses    Takes lots of mental & emotional energy to make hundreds & thousands of decisions as an entrepreneur.    Especially in times of crisis.   An entrepreneur should hopefully thrive in adversity b/c of the nature of an entrepreneur.   It takes lots of emotional intelligence to wear so many different hats as an entrepreneur.    Your E...

2 calls from out of the blue   You never know who is watching you & how you're living your life.   How often do you let your friends know that you're thankful for them?   How good of a friend are you?   How can you be a better friend?   Be specific w/how someone has impacted you.   2 years before my dad died, every time he & I talked on the phone, he would tell me 3 things: I love you. I believe i...

Seems like emotional intelligence & emotional capacity are directly proportional.   What triggers you?   What overwhelms you?   What shuts you down?   A lot of information and a lot of new information would've typically shut me down.    As soon as I started feeling overwhelmed, I journaled my thoughts and used a mind map which helped tremendously.    This has also impacted & improved my emotional...

From 3 major social media influencers Michael Stelzner (Social Media Marketing Events) Jasmine Star (Instagram) AJ Wilcox (LinkedIn)   1 - Secure in themselves 2 - Had courage, faith 3 - Desire to add value, impact & influence others 4 - Emotionally present & available 5 - Reflection: how do we make others feel 6 - Self-awareness & self-management to find & discover & share their voices, gifts, st...

What does your decision making process reveal about you?   How authentic are you? How do you know?   Are you self-aware enough to accurately answer those previous questions?   8 Questions to Assess Your Decision Making Process 1 - What decisions have you made recently? 2 - Why did you make them? 3 - Did someone want you to make those decisions? 4 - Did you truly have the freedom to make those deci...