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3 Emotional Intelligence Exercises that Build a Growth Mindset
Own, Partner, Delegate
Two Emotional Intelligence muscles, self-awareness, and self-management are worked when you use this technique of handling your core responsibilities and tasks, once every week:
- Own: What tasks you need to do yourself?
- Partner: What stuff you need to partner with another person to complete?
- Delegate: What tasks you need to give to an expert, or outsource due to lack of time?
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The 'Have' Mindset
Living your life in abundance and victory, even before you actually attain any of it, is a way to bring it to your life, faster than anything.
Having an unshakable belief that you already 'have' something conjures the powers of the universe to make it into a reality for you.
Own, Partner, Delegate
Two Emotional Intelligence muscles, self-awareness, and self-management are worked when you use this technique of handling your core responsibilities and tasks, once every week:
- Own: What tasks you need to do yourself?
- Partner: What stuff you need to partner with another person to complete?
- Delegate: What tasks you need to give to an expert, or outsource due to lack of time?
Meet New People
Build relationships by meeting new people over lunch or coffee, once a week. Making an effort to meet new people builds your network and helps you in your career in infinite ways.
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Mindsets
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- Growth Mindset: Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (with hard wo...
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- People believe they always had it. But a “pure” growth mindset doesn’t exist, we are a mixture of the two;
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If you learn to master your day, you’ll learn how to master your weeks, months, years, and life.
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Traditional career paths
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Start before you’re ready
In this ever-changing marketplace, chances are you’ll never feel 100% prepared.
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