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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.

Research: What Separates the Top Decision Makers?

New decision making research from Six Seconds’ State of the Heart report identifies the emotional intelligence skills and strategies that predict good decision making, all over the world. So what are they, and how can you cultivate them?

Shifting Your Perspective: 3 Ways to Make Better Decisions with Emotional Intelligence

Based on some fascinating psychology research, here are 3 effective tactics you should try out to make better decisions.

Keeping Emotions Out of It Is Actually a Disaster

Making good decisions comes down to “being rational” and “keeping emotions out of it,” right? Actually, no. According to the latest neuroscience research, it’s time do away with this outdated mode of thinking and adopt a more wholesome, accurate view on emotions and decision making.

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.

Need Help Making a Decision? Try Mixed Emotions Cards

Have you ever had really mixed feelings about a decision or a choice you have to make? It can paralyze the decision making process and cause us to waffle endlessly back and forth. The Mixed Emotions card deck embraces the complexity of emotions and turns them into an asset for decision making.

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.

The Life or Death Science of Community

Relationships are the bedrock, the foundation, of a long and satisfying life. And according to a growing body of research, building community is quite literally a matter of life and death. So what helps us build community?

5 Surprising Ways Emotions Spread

Emotions are contagious, spreading between people seamlessly and often, unconsciously. Based on the latest research, here are 5 surprising ways emotions spread.

Lessons from Patagonia

What lessons can we learn from a pioneering company to build community and good business? Here are six insights from Patagonia’s journey to create alignment and commitment to a shared purpose.

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.

What Are They Thinking: EQ Tool for Conflicts

Want help to solve a conflict? You need to get to the root of the problem, which is the disparity between the two sides’ perceptions of what’s happening. This tool helps you do exactly that.

Reaching Across the Divide In an Uber Polarized World

The other day, I heard a girl on the street say, “I saw a guy with a Trump shirt on, and I literally crossed the street.” It seems she’s not the only one, as division has reached all time highs. This is the story of one man’s journey to start reaching across the divide – and how we can do the same.

Gesundheit! The Surprising Case of Emotional Contagion

Humans are highly sensitive to emotional signals in the environment. People tend to catch others’ emotions – an effect known as emotional contagion. And to be able to navigate this world successfully, it’s helpful to understand how it all works.

How to Practice Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Choice (updated for 2018)

Want to know how to practice emotional intelligence? Here are 10 expert tips from our worldwide network to choose yourself more effectively.

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.

Noble Goals and Little Miracles in Guatemala

The little miracles of life happen all around us, and the more time we take to notice and appreciate them, the richer we feel.

Want a Hands-On Tool to Practice EQ? Try T, F, A Cards

Assess a recent decision. Become more self-aware. Solve a conflict. T, F, A Cards are a simple and effective tool – check out these stories!

Envisioning Success: The Power of Mental Practice

What does the latest research show us about “mental practice”? It turns out, we underestimate the value of mental practice, and it’s time that we start taking advantage of its incredible power in multiple areas of our lives, from learning new skills to healing from surgery.

New Research on Coaching with EQ: Insight & Purpose

A new journal article articulates the role of emotional intelligence in coaching. The link is powerful.

First Nations Youth Finding Wellbeing with Emotion, Spirit, Body & Mind

For teens struggling with a brutal addiction to solvents, hope and healing seem far away. Traditional culture & the Medicine Wheel combine with emotional intelligence to support a path forward for the children, and their counselors.

Leveraging Talents for Performance: Case Study

Lara Williams of Momentum4 brings us this case study to see how EQ tools in action can deliver positive outcomes to leadership training.

Out of the Darkness: 3 Tips for Dealing with Difficult Emotions

How do we deal with difficult emotions in an emotionally intelligent way? Doing so is essential for your overall wellbeing.

Hyundai Sets the Pace with Innovative Training

To reach their strategic objectives, Hyundai’s manufacturing team in Turkey identified a key need: Agility requires managers to build their creativity. To build those capabilities, here’s how Hayatın Ritmi, Six Seconds’ Partner in Turkey, is working with the company to leverage the emotional intelligence Brain Talents to set a context for innovation.

The Neuroscience of Trust: From the Brain to the Boardroom

Understanding the neuroscience of trust can help you develop healthy, trusting relationships at home and at work. Here’s how it works.

How to Increase Your Empathy

You’ve probably heard how important it is to use empathy in work and life… but HOW? Here are five practical, research-proven tips.

Dragonfly: Social Emotional Learning Goes Outdoors

For kids across Asia, Dragonfly’s outdoor ed and service learning program is all about self-discovery through EQ. Find out how this unique model is helping kids develop their interpersonal skills.

What Is a Sociogram? A Leadership Tool Worth Knowing About

What is a sociogram? A sociogram is a valuable tool for gathering data on social relationships and dynamics.

Emotional WHAT? Definitions and History of EQ (updated)

From interviews the originators of the science of emotional intelligence including Peter Salovey, Daniel Goleman, & Reuven Bar-On, here’s a simple and lively history of this breakthrough science.

Navigating Emotions to Increase Personal Connection

When challenge and struggles drain your emotional energy in a downward spiral of bleh… there’s a way out, and it’s surprisingly simple when you engage emotions in a new way.

Coaching with Computers? 3 Life-Changing Insights from the Neural Net

For emotional intelligence coaches, a new AI tool is helping them go deeper with clients. Find out how.

How to Be More Optimistic: 3 Vital Questions

Want concrete tips for how to be more optimistic? You are in the right place. Ask yourself these 3 questions in challenging situations.

Emotional Intelligence and Coaching – Infographic

What makes coaching so effective, and does emotional intelligence help? How? Here’s an infographic + free report with insights from 1138 coaches and coaching clients from 88 countries.

How to Live Meaningfully with EQ: 10 Tips for a Purpose Driven Life

Emotional intelligence is essential for living a purpose driven life. Check out these tips for connecting more meaningfully with others and your own bigger purpose!

What’s Your Body Telling You?

Listening to What Our Bodies Are Telling Us – By Beth Offenbacker, PhD Have you ever been unsure how you feel about something? As I’ve gotten older, I find sometimes I live more “in my head” than sometimes I want to. And as someone with a brain preference for Rational data (see the Brain […]

Stepping Out of the Shadow of Perfect

How can we counter the shadow of perfectionism? Increasing self-compassion and empathy will free us to be our best.

EQ Coaching for a Vibrant Future: 5 Essentials

What makes personal and executive coaching work best? We interviewed five coaches from around the world, here are their essential recommendations.

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