CHAPTER 7

THE DOORWAY TO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

The key to understanding others is to understand oneself.—Helen Williams

Assuming that you are interested in improving your emotional intelligence, just where do you begin? The doorway to emotional intelligence opens with self-awareness. Self-awareness is our ability to understand ourselves and then to use that information to fully live our intentions.

If you are interested in buying a home, you first see that home from the curb. You may admire what you see, or you may not be sure if it's for you. To find out more, you'll walk inside and poke around. If you've done any house hunting, I'm sure that you've sometimes been pleasantly surprised when you open the door. Other times, I'm sure you've been ...

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