Maria Jackson, Author at Six Seconds Six Seconds

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Maria Jackson enjoys writing about the personal side of practicing emotional intelligence. Her noble goal is to “nurture inner illumination,” and she feel grateful to work and live in a world where she can practice daily. She shares stories, tips, and inspirations for living EQ in Illuminate, a free, weekly e-mail column (6sec.org/illuminate). She'd love to hear from you at maria.jackson@6seconds.org

Identify Your Most Fulfilling Career: A Step-by-Step Guide for Women

A 4-step guide for women to gain clarity and confidence with emotional intelligence.

POP-UP Festival Partnership with AEON Corporation

Over 400 children and parents enjoyed playing and learning about emotional intelligence through hands-on activities and family fun with POP-UP Festival at AEON mall in Japan.

Feeling Overwhelmed? Harness Your True North

We only have so much energy and attention to give. This article will help you align your focus and attention with your “True North”– your purpose.

How Do You React to Others’ Vulnerability?

Nuanced empathy skills help us develop close relationships, which according to a growing body of research, is the key to a good life.

Connect to Your Values with This Art Project

Illuminate: Feeling Stuck Try This 3-Step Technique

This week, we’ll dive in + explore a practical technique for navigating feelings that just seem to linger.

Illuminate: What Do You Really Want?

Illuminate: How Are You (Really) Feeling Today?

How can you be more empowered with your emotions? The first step is to be able to correctly label them, in a timely manner – the emotional intelligence skill of enhance emotional literacy.

Illuminate: Unravel Deeper Layers of Your Patterns

Illuminate: 3 Steps to Acting on Your Values

We all make hundreds of decisions a day; do they align with your values? This week’s Illuminate gives you three practical steps for identifying your values, putting them into practice, and making your life more aligned with your values.

Illuminate: Navigating Anger toward Wisdom

Dive into a beautiful (and true!) story about the power of navigating emotions– and learn how you can transform anger/sadness/grief/confusion into wisdom about yourself and your life’s path.

Illuminate: What DO You Do with Your Inner Critic?

We all have that little voice inside: ‘You didn’t do that right/ fast enough/ well enough.’ How do you treat yours… and could you treat it more kindly?

Talk to Yourself Like You Would Your Best Friend

Recent research suggests that speaking kindly to yourself helps you cope with challenging situations. But how exactly do you change self-talk?

Start Your Day on PURPOSE: Choose A Morning Ritual

Recent research suggests those with a morning ritual feel that their life is more meaningful. Set your daily intention by building a morning ritual… here’s how.

Illuminate: Want Empathy? 3 Phrases To Ask for It

We all need a good listening ear sometimes. But how do we get it when it isn’t offered? Here are three phrases to communicate the need for empathy with others. Try them out!

Illuminate: Perfectionism, Pt 1

Perfectionism is the excessive fear of making mistakes. This week, I invite you to pay attention to how perfectionism, or the fear of making mistakes, shows up in your life.

What Is The Root Belief of Your Perfectionism?

No one loves making mistakes, but some of us are more afraid of making a mistake than others. If you are one of these people, take a mindful moment to better understand where your fear comes from.

Illuminate: Where Do You Want to Go?

Take a moment to clarify your (emotional, professional, physical) destination + represent it in a fun way.

What Relationship Pattern Holds You Back?

Everyone has their own pattern when it comes to relationships. ‘Attachment Styles’ have been studied in psychology for years, and its wisdom is now starting to find its way into everyday relationships. What’s your attachment style, and how can you best work with it?

Cultivate Growth Mindset with Unlikely Gratitude

Unlikely Gratitude: Finding the opportunity for growth in an otherwise, mundane, annoying, or horrible situation.

Illuminate: What’s Behind Your Mask?

How often do we wear masks? Do we actually spend most (or all) of our lives wearing a protective costume so that we can hide who we really are? Learn about your unique masks in this simple + meaningful activity.

Want a Good Long Life? 1 Clear Answer from Research

“It’s useful to know it’s a choice worth making.” The results from an 80-year-long research study clearly identify what we should focus on for a long and fulfilled life.

Your Limiting Belief Demystified

It’s prickly, but it’s worth it. Learn more about your own limiting belief + tools for working through it, all thanks to the person who most annoys you. Take this moment to learn compassion- for yourself and for them.

Illuminate: Who drives you NUTS?

Your ‘Sandpaper Person’ illuminates your own personal beliefs + opportunities for growth. This articles breaks down how to identify + learn from the person who most challenges you.

Illuminate: Crafting Your Noble Goal

Three steps to tapping into your guiding purpose. Today’s the day to create or refine your understanding of what fuels you + fuels the world.

Eat Mindfully: 7 Tips for Practicing Emotional Intelligence with Meals

Practicing emotional intelligence around how we eat it is an often forgotten key to digestive health, according to digestive psychologist Caspar Poyck. Here are 6 ways to eat mindfully and feel better physically.

Illuminate: What’s Your Brain’s Extreme Habit?

A guide to tempering it for better decision making. Dive into your own brain’s extreme preferences + explore some tools for teaching your brain that there is indeed a different way to look at things.

Three Breaths for Lowering Your Cortisol Level

The science + practice behind mindful breathing. Take five minutes to give yourself the gift of resetting your nervous system.

Craft Your Personal Affirmation in Five Steps

Effective affirmations are self-created, meaningful, and dig into one’s core values. Here’s a guide to creating one for yourself that will stick.

What Your Brain Style Says About Decision-Making

Did you know that your brain style may be affecting your decision making? Find out your brain style + see how it may be impacting your ability to make great decisions.

Three Steps to Identifying Your Goals + Obstacles

The only person who has the responsibility to prioritize you IS you. Take a mindful moment to build self-awareness, set your goals, and Choose Yourself.

How Your Attachment Style Affects Your Relationship

Learning your attachment style might completely change how you (and your partner) fight, play, and build a relationship.

Four Steps to A More Intentional Life

A life coach shares her approach to practicing a life full of vision, meaning, and treasure hunts.

An (Emotionally Intelligent) Love Story

This Valentine’s Day, I am two-weeks post-surgery. No fancy dinners or moonlit walks on the beach for me. But don’t worry, I am still being extravagantly loved in the most emotionally intelligent way.

Rewritten: How do we break a bad habit (and make good ones)?

How do we rewrite habits? Do you want to pen new, healthy ones or erase worn, harmful ones?