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Errol Carrim

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Emotional Intelligence: The Key to Rediscovering Passion for Your Life

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5 Steps to Rediscovering Your Passion for Life and Leadership Step 4

With all of the knowledge, skills, talents and drive you may have, if you are not emotionally self-aware, you will not succeed at your life’s goals. You do not have to look far to find someone who has failed at achieving their life’s goals because they did not take the time to know who they were emotionally, how to control their emotions, and what motivated their emotions. You yourself may have experienced consequences due to lack of awareness of emotional strengths and weaknesses; you failed because you thought you were strong in an area where you were actually weak.

Sibling rivalryKnowing your strengths and weaknesses, embracing them, being able to control your emotions, and knowing what motivates you are all aspects of emotional intelligence. The concept was made popular in the mid 90s by Daniel Goleman in his ground breaking book, Emotional Intelligence. Since this ground-breaking work, you hardly hear talk about self-improvement that does not include a focus on emotional intelligence.

If you are going to achieve your life goals and rediscover your passion for life, you will need to

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Honesty and Accountability

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5 Steps to Rediscovering Your Passion for Life and Leadership Step 3

Where do you go to be completely honest with what you are feeling, thinking and going through without being judged? Who hears your heart with all its fears, joys and concerns?  Who do you have to be straight up in your face honest with you, to let you hear the hard truth even when you do not want to hear it? Many of us, especially leaders, do not have such honesty and accountability in our lives. And for many, the consequences have been tragic.

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I have come to learn that such honesty and accountability is essential for us to live life and to lead with passion, vision, purpose and excellence. It also helps to avoid the disillusionment of self-sufficiency. I have heard many people, myself included, say, “I know if I had a place to be honest

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Create Margin in Your Life

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5 Steps to Help You Rediscover Your Passion for Life and Leadership – Step 2 

Last week we explored the importance of setting goals as essential to restoring purpose and passion in life and leadership. This week in step two we want to look at the importance of creating margin in your life as you work toward your goals.

If you have goals, but do not intentionally prioritize them in your calendar on a daily basis, you will continue to live in a state of frustration.

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Step 2 – Create Margin in Your Life
To achieve life goals we all need margin in our lives.

Margin is the space we create so we can breathe and not feel pressed down or crushed by all we have to do in life and ministry. Dr. Richard Swenson, in his book, Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, describes margin

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Is Frustration the New Normal?

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5 Steps to Help You Rediscover Passion for Life and Leadership – Step 1

  • Can you recall the last time you felt enthusiastic or excited about life and your leadership responsibilities?
  • Do you wake up each day with a feeling of excitement and enthusiasm, or of depression and dread?
  • Do you come to the end of your day feeling you have had a meaningful, satisfying and successful day; or do you feel tired, discouraged and overworked?

GoalsIf any of the negative aspects are true, perhaps most
frustrating of all is that life was not always like this. Now, you are wondering what happened? Where has the passion gone? Is frustration my new normal? Through the next five weeks, I will share five steps you can take to help you renew your passion for life and leadership. You may be surprised at how simple these steps are. Yet what a difference they will make in your life and ministry!

This week, let’s look at the first step.