Use Emotional Intelligence to GROW Your Business

One of the keys to business growth is personal growth. Tapping into this is one of the reason what leads HeartCore Business clients to success. 

 And a great way ways to achieve personal growth is to release the parts of your personality that suppress it—to sharpen your emotional intelligence.

How do you do that?

Define What’s Hindering Your Growth

Take a moment to think about your personality: specifically, any parts of it you’d like to release … parts of it you’re not proud of, that you’d like to change.

Look at an area in your life that’s emotionally-charged for you, or where you have an emotional breakdown—where you’re not so proud of yourself for the way you’re being, or the way you’re acting or reacting.

Now, let go of any judgment around this situation. Let go of thinking whether you’re “right” in reacting this way, or whether someone deserves it.

Can you see where you are responsible for creating that drama, that emotional charge? This is emotional intelligence.

Typically, removing that emotional charge, growing your emotional intelligence in that area, requires you to let go of all righteousness. It requires you to let yourself off the hook for not being perfect.

Life is not about being perfect. It’s not about being intense.

You’ll know if you’re hanging onto perfection when you start judging people: your spouse, your friend, your parents, your co-workers, yourself. You see, judgment is a great deflector of responsibility.  

What if, when you find yourself slipping into that judgment mode, you stopped and looked for the emotional trigger?

The emotional trigger is where your life is trying to grow.

The emotional trigger gives you a window into something amazing that wants to come through! Releasing it gives you control, as you realize that growth.

You’re in Control—and You’re Wired for Growth

But guess what? If you’re in judgment mode, you miss it. If you believe you’re somehow wrong or messed up for feeling triggered, then you suppress yourself.

You are completely in control of changing something—of changing whatever situation triggers you, emotionally.

And if you look at each trigger as an opportunity for growth (which is exciting, right?), then you do grow and change, and release those triggers while realizing more of your potential.

The human spirit loves growth. We’re attracted to it, wired for it.

But when we slip into judgment mode, we squish the growth, and we give our power away.

To change this, we must release the emotional triggers that cause us to give our power away.

Releasing the Triggers

In general, people have negative feelings about “giving up” something.

But giving up the things that don’t serve you—for example, the emotional triggers that stop you from growing—actually allows you to get more of what you want!

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Source: Shanda Sumpter