Happy New Year! I was reading Anne Lamott’s book called Traveling Mercies, and she made the comment “you must be present to win” in reference to the way one of…

The sixth and final self awareness technique I would like to talk about is Quiet Time.  It could be called reflection or meditation time.  You could use prayer, meditation, reflection,…

So far we have talked about 4 of the 6 techniques for becoming more aware of our feelings or emotions.  In this post, we are going to talk about technique…

The last few posts we have talked about various techniques to increase our self-awareness, or our awareness of our own emotional states.  Understanding our own emotions is the first step…

The last few posts we have talked about techniques for increasing our self awareness.  Without knowing what we are feeling, we cannot begin to manage ourselves or others.  Using the…

The second awareness technique I want to discuss is to conduct a physical inventory.  By this I mean that we will use the physical sensations in our body to help…

In my last post, I talked about Self Awareness as the first building block of applied emotional intelligence.  Self awareness is about knowing what emotions we are feeling at any…

Several posts back, we introduced a framework for emotional intelligence which could be applied to project management.  That framework contains 5 areas of competence as shown in the diagram at…