EQ Blog
Your place to learn everything about emotional intelligence and how to leverage your emotions to navigate any challenge in life.
Practical insights combined with authenticity, vulnerability, passion and a dose of humor are at the heart of my blogs.
Dispelling Common EQ Myths which keep remote teams below their potential
Learn how emotional intelligence can help you boost your remote team's motivation levels. Imagine you had a terrible night of sleep after weeks of feeling stressed out because of your high workload. You wake up depleted, your hair looking like a rock-star Mick...
The ONE THING you need to build Emotional Firewalls
How to protect yourself from the pandemic burnout First, let's define emotional firewalls. What are these wide range of feelings which drive people's behaviour, bias and perception? "In psychology, emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in...
Five ways to use your breath and thrive in 2021
Fuel your focus, performance, and well-being by breathing Many of us have reached a point where we feel ...can 2020, please be over now, and part of the past? Can we get this vaccine to roll out and get on with our lives? Feelings of exhaustion, loss of...
Why positive emotions are crucial for remote productivity
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein. Those who try to solve today's problems with yesterday's thinking and expect different results are in it for an unpleasant surprise. This type of thinking is...
Five ways to lead with Digital Empathy
Empathy is a buzzword used in different contexts to inspire people to be better human beings! How many times did you feel offended by someone's actions or comments? Be honest with yourself. Did you allow someone's words or actions to dictate how you felt? Did you...
How to train yourself to speak words of personal empowerment
The most important words you will ever speak are the words you say to yourself. Marisa Peers Remember when you were a little child where you felt careless and expected everyone to love and like you? Remember when you were so proud of yourself taking your first steps...
Release and Rise into your Personal Power
What if we are all carrying invisible backpacks in our lives which weigh heavier and heavier as we grow older? What if there were invisible stones of different sizes, shapes, and forms and which keep piling up in these backpacks? The mind is a powerful force within...
How to say NO and still feel good
Over the past years, one thing that stood out in my life, and the lives of all the people I met is our inability to say NO without the guilt. Setting boundaries and learning to say NO is critical for our psychological, psychical, and emotional well-being. Yet, most...
Worn out by stress? Discover your One Thing!
Last Thursday morning, I did something out of my comfort zone - I was mentally alert and focused early in the day during a virtual book discussion of the ONE THING. Early morning and me being mentally alert are usually a dichotomy! I am still reading the book, but...
