Achieving Personal Effectiveness through Emotional Intelligence

Choose & Act on the Most Appropriate Thoughts

Achieving effectiveness is governed by very simple thought processes. It is like choosing and acting on the most appropriate thoughts. At times you need to consciously generate these thoughts till they become


a very natural habit to you. For instance if you wish to be a good public speaker , you must learn the principles governing the discipline of public speaking, once you know these principles , you must practice them regularly, so that these principles are relegated to your memory. Now as and when an opportunity of public speaking presents itself, you must hold it and show case your talent.

The Power of Directing Thought towards Goals

The fact could be that you are scared of public speaking, but the moment you take off your mind from the thought of fearing this activity and place it on the track of learning about public speaking and practicing it. You open a world of opportunities in public speaking, this is the power of directing your thought towards anything you want to achieve.

Effectiveness is a Function of Thought at Will & Discipline

The same phenomenon is true for achieving effectiveness by focusing your thought on time management, physical fitness level, body language, communication skills, emotional intelligence, etc. therefore achieving effectiveness in any area of your life is a function of you being able to focus your mind at will on the chosen activity and the discipline to carry out the activity in line with the prescribed knowledgetenets.

Balancing Act between the Heart & the Mind

When it comes to the ability to generate thoughts at will, we are essentially dealing with the faculty of emotional intelligence. This aspect of your personality performs a balancing act between the heart & the mind, or the feelings & the logic. So having the control regarding your decision, to give precedence to feelings over logic or the other way round , would determine your success and failure achieved in life.

Emotional Intelligence - The Recipe for Success

Thus knowing that although you may be very thirsty but with the limited amount of water available to be shared with a large number of people, may make you control your desire to completely quench your thirst by taking only limited quantity of water to ensure that others present there must also get their limited share. This control over the physiological demand of the body for immediate gratification by deferring the satisfaction to a later time because of some overriding consideration for others and the etiquette you need to follow in a particular situation can be categorized as a behavior emanating from emotional intelligence. Thus setting your thoughts on the right track and backing them up with the right action is the recipe for success.

Channelize Your Energy for Achieving Better & Bigger Results

Sometimes we indulge into thought processes & related action, impacting us in the short, medium or long run, but so far as these are guided by our internal voice, they would always bring us direct fruits of our actions. This is similar to keeping on the right track, always, irrespective of what is happening around us or what is being done to us by others. Such mastery would evolve your inner strength and you would be able to channelize your energy for achieving better and bigger results in your chosen vocation.

The Rare Combination of Success, Happiness & Fulfillment

Thus, achieving effectiveness in a nut shell is a result of achieving the capability of controlling thought at will, knowing the right sources of knowledge, learning from them, practicing the art of self discipline, These work well to get you the rare combination of success, happiness & fulfillment, when you live the universal eternal truths and the divine virtuesalong with developing your internal voice as well as the, art of balancing logic and feelings called, emotional intelligence.

    God Bless

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