A Message from the Heart

Am I walking my talk?

For the last ten days I can say that my life has been very challenging! 

On top of all the challenges we are all facing, more hardships are appearing in my life. 

My reaction: Total freeze for a short period then I started to be aware of the cocktail of emotions inside. “It’s Ok not to be ok” was the message I kept playing in my head. A message that we have been sharing a lot within our EQ community. Reflection, acceptance and self-empathy proved to be important muscles to navigate my emotions.

If you know me, then you know that learning is one of my core values. In this period, learning from others and learning from self, helped me discover one of my important patterns, well, actually it turned to be a Cognitive Bias!

The Action bias: when faced with ambiguity or challenge, favoring doing something or anything without any prior analysis even if it is counterproductive! …. Wow, that’s what I have been doing lately!!

I believe that this bias could be both toxic and/or tonic. To be really honest, It might have been toxic for some time, but my awareness was the starting point. 

Now I am stopping and choosing how to engage with such a bias. I know down deep what direction I want to take, and I am sure that this will help me make the right choices to change my pattern and shift this “action bias” from toxic to tonic!

I often wonder if I am walking my talk. 

The years of learning, believing and sharing the knowledge of Emotional Intelligence proved its important effect in leading myself purposefully.  

I am grateful and hopeful. Life has lots of tough lessons to teach us. How we decide to show up during challenge makes all the difference.

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