Ahmed Shaami
Degrees, certifications, and diplomas are mostly believed by people as their most significant assets, but in reality, it all comes down to how you manage good human relations. This is what is called emotional intelligence and it teaches you to deal with situations of pressure, frustration, and stress while working with others. Emotional intelligence is the key to your success because it represents your ability to have a control over your emotions.
But in order to stay mentally fit, you must keep on improving your level of emotional intelligence that will eventually help you to attain success in life. Following are the few ways to do that:
Be useful to others:
People often misunderstand the true purpose of life. It is not just about staying happy, life is to be useful and compassionate to others. For improving upon your emotional intelligence you need to be willing to share your knowledge with others and be supportive, eager to help, and easy to get along with. Once you will be trusted by people around you then that will boost your confidence, improve you communication and negotiation skills. It will no doubt help you a lot to achieve your goals ad become successful.
Use your imaginative power:
During your work, you are tested for your control over emotions. You need to prove that you do not get upset easily. For this purpose, use you imaginative skills to prepare yourself for different situations. Think of different scenarios that require you to make use of your emotional intelligence. Come up with different possible solutions to solve an unpleasant situation. This will help you increase your self-esteem. A better control over your social skills will help you improve them on a greater level.
Understand other people:
Success is not about being selfish for your own goals. Your success depends on how you listen to other people by putting prejudices and interpretations on the side. In your daily conversation you have to make it a habit to understand people by placing yourself in their position and think how you would have defended yourself. It will give you a broader perspective of difficult situations. Being empathetic to people will help you see with the eyes of another person, listen through their ears, and feeling what they are going through.
Being grateful:
One thing that helps a lot in improving your emotional intelligence is to be grateful for what you have. For staying positive and motivated throughout your day, you must practice a gratitude exercise every morning by writing down the blessing in your life. Be thankful for each and everything and enforce everything to your subconscious mind. Imprinting your subconscious thoughts in a better way will help you boost confidence, self-awareness, motivation, and happiness.
