Hi and welcome back to how do you show up practicing emotional intelligence. The topic for this lesson is, are there bad emotions. There's no such thing as a bad emotion, each emotion that we experienced throughout the day. Each one is important, we need to first acknowledge it, name it, and then investigate to understand why we feel the way we do or why we behaved as we did. For example, anger has a bad reputation. However, upon investigation, anger is just a symptom of other emotions like fear or jealousy or sadness or anxiety.

Asking why you feel the way you do is very important. This is all hard work, but it's so beneficial to your professional development to your personal life, your well being as well as your health we can learn from every emotion and then make a conscious or intentional decision about how We want to respond or how we want to behave. studies have proven that positive thinking leads to more positive results. So it's a great opportunity to stop, think notice what's going on, and recognize that we drive our emotions. our emotions do not drive us. The class project is to journal about how emotions influence your decision making.

What we're practicing here is self awareness. Taking a step back, taking a deep breath and making sure that the decisions that we're making are based on facts rather than emotion, make entries in your journal.