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08/09/2024

06/08/2024

Your mental health and wellbeing matters.

Most of us have limited vocabulary in naming our emotions.

Visit our Etsy shop for products that can help you name them so that you can feel them.

Our top seller is a digital download of 128 emotions. It is built on Dr Robert Plutchik's work on wheel of emotions.

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05/16/2024

It’s much better to notice our impulses and take a few deep breaths before acting on them.

The following exercise will make a huge difference!

Writing helps the learning process.
• Recall a moment when impulsive behavior led to unintended consequences.
• Write with some detail about the events, emotions, and aftermath.
• Explore how acknowledging and regulating impulses could have altered the outcome.

Impulses are signals, not for action but for deeper thinking and reflection

05/16/2024

To practice better self control, try writing a letter.

Address it to your future self.

Discuss a specific area where you want to improve self-control.

Describe the challenges you face and outline the steps your future self has taken to overcome them.

Reflect on the growth achieved.

Don’t pre-judge this exercise.

Just do it.

Many people have experienced something profound from this simple exercise. We would love to hear about your miracle!

05/16/2024

In our writing workshops for leaders, we encourage a mindful approach to cultivating emotional intelligence.

Try this:
In your journal write about a time in the past week when you intentionally worked on listening to someone else?

If you can’t recall doing that, make it your new goal to do that in the next 24 hours.

After listening, reflect. Did you have to keep yourself from speaking hastily or chiming in?

How was listening a form of self regulation?

05/02/2024

It’s much better to notice our impulses and take a few deep breaths before acting on them.

The following exercise will make a huge difference!

Writing helps the learning process.
• Recall a moment when impulsive behavior led to unintended consequences.
• Write with some detail about the events, emotions, and aftermath.
• Explore how acknowledging and regulating impulses could have altered the outcome.

Impulses are signals, not for action but for deeper thinking and reflection

05/02/2024

Without self-control, we're slaves to our lower impulses.

For millenia self control has been praised as a virtue.

We don’t talk a lot about virtues and vices these days.

We’ve gotten away from the ancient wisdom that a lack of self control enslaves us.

It’s better to live as free people.

05/02/2024

Self regulation is a key part of exercising emotional intelligence.

How do you build self regulation?

It’s like a muscle. You have to exercise it!

Here’s a writing prompt that will help.

Describe a situation from your past where lack of self-control had consequences.

Explore the emotions, triggers, and outcomes.

Finally, write about how you could have approached the situation differently to exercise better self-regulation.

04/18/2024

Without self-control, we're slaves to our lower impulses.

For millenia self control has been praised as a virtue.

We don’t talk a lot about virtues and vices these days.

We’ve gotten away from the ancient wisdom that a lack of self control enslaves us.

It’s better to live as free people.

04/18/2024

Leaders need to find truth in classics

“Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood
for I had wandered off from the straight path.”
Dante, The Divine Comedy

Dante expresses a deep truth.

Sometimes in the middle of our journey we find ourselves lost.

It seems like we have to go through hell to find our way back to our destination.

When that happens, don’t stop.

Keep walking!

04/18/2024

What makes leaders effective?

Their habits.

Study the habits of effective leaders.

You’ll notice they have something in common.

It’s not necessarily the habits are always the same.

It’s the fact that they have habits that bring them consistently within striking distance of success.

Leadskill helps leaders grow self-awareness.