Your New Journey with Emotional Intelligence

Your New Journey with Emotional Intelligence

February 02, 20262 min read

Do you find it more challenging than ever to keep your emotions in check? Is conflict becoming a bigger part of your life? There's a lot of things going on in the world right now.

So, I want to start our year together by helping you to navigate your emotions appropriately.

Many years ago, I came across this thing called emotional intelligence. If you feel a little bit like everything is just coming at you right now — you're getting more emotionally charged in situations — this year could be your year to take it on as a challenge to develop your emotional intelligence skills.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of what's going on for you emotionally in the moment. So right here, right now, what is it that you are experiencing? How's that making you think and how does that make you feel?

And then being able to use that awareness to have more beneficial relationships, to be able to control your behavior so that it gets you the results you want without all the conflict.

I still get upset. It's just firstly what I allow to upset me that's changed and being able to draw it in and bring it back to logic rather than just heated up emotion.

Now more than ever, these skills are needed in this age of generative and conversational AI. We need human intelligence, and the greatest intelligence that we have is our emotional intelligence.

2026 can be your best year ever. That's up to you. You've just gotta choose what it is that you're going to leave behind, what you're going to shift this year.

And I invite you to come on this journey step by step. I'll see you then.


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Grant Herbert
Grant Herbert|The People Builder
Ordinary guy, with an outstanding wife and 5 amazing kids, who is on his own journey of imperfection. Founder and Global Managing Partner at People Builders and the Professional Services Leadership Academy.
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