Emotional Wellbeing - Relationships matter!

Emotional Wellbeing - Relationships matter

1. Relational health: Who matters in your life?
2. Community engagement: What matters in your life?
3. Growing emotionally: Emotional and social intelligence

Who matters in your life?  What matters in your life?  These are the questions that get to the heart of our lives.  How we answer those questions is intimately connected to our Emotional Wellbeing and is the topic of this blog.

At Leadership for Life, we encourage you to look at all the significant relationships in your life by taking time to reflect on the history of those relationships and the quality of those relationships in your life now.  As we have all experienced, some relationships are strong for a particular season in our lives and then fade.  Some seem to be predicated on a mutual interest or pursuit.  And others are for a lifetime.  We believe it is important to reflect on all the significant relationships in your life, but we find that it is reflection on those life long relationships that seems to be at the heart of Emotional Wellbeing.

Likewise, we encourage you reflect on the communities and causes that you give your time and energy to.  Are they still important to you?  What is the quality of your participation in those communities?  What is the depth of your commitment to the causes you have chosen to support with time and/or financial resources?  Like relationships, our commitment to communities and causes may evolve over time and to be aware of that evolution, we have found, is a key contributor to maintaining a strong sense of meaning and purpose in life.

In Costa Rica, you are invited to take advantage of the time away from the demands of everyday life to think about the relationships in your life that matter most.  To assist you in reflecting upon those relationships, you are introduced to the dynamic concepts of growing in emotional and social intelligence.  This is a field of research that began in the 1920’s, was popularized by Daniel Goleman’s writing on the topic, and has been advanced by recent book on the neuroscience underpinning emotional and social intelligence.  It is a fascinating read! 

For those of you who are interested in learning more about how emotional intelligence can improve your Emotional Wellbeing, Leadership for Life offers emotional intelligence assessments and sessions on improving your social and emotional intelligence.  For those of you who join us in Costa Rica, an introductory session on emotional and social intelligence is offered before you go on vacation so that you can make the most of your time in paradiseJ