On Staying Cool Under Pressure

This Week’s Topic: The Emotional Audit

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Some emotions fuel positive growth and success.

They inspire you to tap into boundless creative energy and passion. 

Other emotions feel more harmful than helpful.

They sap our motivation, or cause emotional outbursts that prevent us from making progress on our most important goals.

The next time you feel a negative emotion taking over, try practicing the Emotional Audit, a tool I learned from Dr. Relly Nadler, one of the premier thought leaders in the field of Emotional Intelligence.

The Emotional Audit consists of 5 simple questions that, when asked in sequence, pulls cognitive resources away from the primal area of the brain, to the more evolved areas of the brain that are responsible for strategic and creative thinking. 

The 5 Emotional Audit Questions are:

1. What Am I Thinking?

2. What Am I Feeling?

3. What Do I Want Now?

4. How Am I Getting In My Own Way?

5. What Do I Need to do Differently?

I recommend getting comfortable with the Emotional Audit questions while you're in a calm state.

Once you memorize the questions, you can benefit from this process in as little as 60 seconds.  

Reply to this email and let me know how it goes! I look forward to hearing from you.

See you next Wednesday,

Darin 

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