FIVE HABITS OF EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE

To get ahead in life, you need emotional intelligence. But what is it? In this article, Beauty and Tips takes a look at 10 habits of emotionally intelligent people.

Despite being key to anyones success, emotional intelligence isn’t something they teach you at school. They teach you how to do your sums or who won the second world war, but they don’t teach you how to manage your emotions, as well as those of others. Emotional intelligence is the practice of identifying a persons emotions – yours or someone else’s – and harnessing it so that our potential is fulfilled, or a conflict is resolved. As you can imagine, it’s very important that leaders and managers possess emotional intelligence. It helps them to get the best out of their team, as well as themselves, thereby stimulating both productivity and growth. Here are 10 habits of emotionally intelligent people.

(1) They Look For Solutions

There are two types of people in life – those who dwell on their problems, and those who look for solutions. Do emotionally intelligent people spend any amount of time dwelling on their problems? Nope! They immediately start to look for a way out. In this way, emotionally intelligent people are positive and not negative. They believe there is an answer to everything. While it may take them a while to find the answer, to them it’s all part of the game. People without emotional intelligence, founder in the face of a problem because they often don’t believe there is a solution.

(2) They Are Motivated

Ever been inspired by an incredibly motivated person? We all have. But what makes one person SO motivated, while we can only seem to muster motivation for one day, before spending the next six days on the sofa again? Emotional intelligence is key. People who have emotional intelligence tend to be super self-motivated. Why? Because they know what their higher purpose is, and they’re constantly re-examining themselves, their lives, their values and what they want out of life. Emotionally intelligent people are very switched on, and this is key to them finding the motivation needed each day.

(3)They Define Boundaries

It takes both intelligence and assertiveness to set boundaries between ourselves. Emotionally intelligent people are smart enough to know that, unless they set boundaries as soon as possible, situations can get out of hand. People can take advantage of us, and because we lacked the foresight and courage to say No straight away, we find it hard to get out of an escalating situation. Emotionally intelligent people set boundaries so that everyone knows what is acceptable and what isn’t. They make sure they are not taken advantage of, and they make people aware of their rights.

(4) They Take Imperfect Action

Perfectionists have the bad habit of making sure everything is absolutely perfect before declaring something is finished. Emotionally intelligent people, on the other hand, take the opposite approach. They don’t wait around out of fear of failing, and they don’t wait around until something is done absolutely perfectly. They just get it done! If they make a mistake, so be it – they’ll learn from it.

(5) They Put Themselves In Our Shoes

When a person reacts badly to someone who has emotional intelligence in reserve, shouting and swearing at them, the person who is on the receiving end of the verbal volley doesn’t react badly back. Instead, they put themselves in the other person shoes. They well aware that the angry person is not angry at them. Their anger is a culmination of many things, and it’s just now that they’ve decided to explode. This is called empathy. Emotionally intelligent people have a habit of placing themselves in someone else’s shoes, as it gives them a greater understanding and insight into why people do the thin