Lessons Learned in Life

LESSONS LEARNED IN LIFE

Long ago I learned that there is more to success in life than IQ. We are born with an intelligent quotient but only 20% of our success in life can be attributed to IQ. Much more important is the EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. Parents cannot determine what the IQ their children will have but they can contribute immensely in building emotional intelligence. Neither can an individual help what IQ he may have been born with, but he has every opportunity to shape his own emotional intelligence.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE consists of six components:

• Knowing one’s own feelings and using them in good decisions;

• Managing feelings to keep distress from impairing one’s ability to think;

• Motivating oneself despite persistent setbacks;

• Staying hopeful;

• Delaying gratification;

• Empathizing with others and being able to have rapport with others, cooperate and handle feelings in relationships.

If Christian with new life in Christ can exercise daily in his spiritual disciplines, such as a faithful reading and meditation on the Word of God with prayer, a Christian will develop strong emotional intelligence. Fixing his eyes on Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit, and shunning the natural tendency to be selfish and self centered, he will be hopeful, motivated, empathetic, patient, cooperative, self restrained and disciplined.

No Christian has any excuse for having low emotional intelligence. Every Spirit filled Christian has every reason to excel with Emotional Intelligence.