Emotional Skills for Success

Don’t neglect developing your emotional skills. Here are five everyone needs to have, including:

AN ABILITY TO PERSIST. Everyone experiences negative emotions from time to time. But, the emotionally capable grownup is able to push past feelings of anxiety or awkwardness, for example, and shine anyway.

A little self-doubt can’t stop these folks. They know that sometimes fear just means that you’re challenged or trying something new — it’s no reason to shy away.

Part of being emotionally competent is being able to effectively handle the difficult emotions that naturally arise for us all, without letting them rule our actions or behaviors.

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