Improving Emotional Intelligence: Self-Awareness is the Key

In this episode, we are traveling down the path of trying to improve our own emotional intelligence. How do we do that? It starts with a desire for self-awareness that comes from our desire to also be spiritually aware - that is, our drive to understand the higher purpose for life outside of ourselves.

I make the argument that if we don't start from a place of our own spiritual awareness, we can't really hope to become self-aware, because we are too consumed with our own needs and passions. People that are driven from a place of extreme self-centeredness don't make good leaders, because they are usually to be too self-absorbed to become self-aware or consider how their emotions affect others. It is only through our desire to seek out a greater good that we can begin to improve our self-awareness.

I finish this episode by discussing some ways we can practically improve our self-awareness. It is the emotional intelligence component that all the other EI components depend on - and if we don't improve our self-awareness, we won't be able to improve any other component of our own emotional intelligence.