The EI Guy tells everyone from CEOs to frontline staff that emotional maturity isn't automatic. You're responsible for your behavior regardless of mood. He argues toxic thoughts and emotional outbursts signal immaturity, and offers a framework to keep emotions from overpowering your intelligence.
People always talking about, I don't know who needs to hear this, and I always think to myself, oh, you know exactly who needs to hear that. And so I'm gonna say this about you when you show up to work, and I don't care if you're the CEO, manager, supervisor, union worker, frontline staff. Listen, you are responsible For how you act, how you behave, no matter how you feel. Just because something didn't go your way, just because your day got off to a bad start, just because you don't like something, doesn't give you the permission or right to run around here vibrating at a low frequency and contaminating everybody else with your Toxic thoughts, your toxic behavior that is irresponsible, and it shows a sign—a lack of emotional maturity. Yeah, people think that maturity just comes with age, or some of you think it comes with how long you've been somewhere. Nah, emotional maturity is something you have to be very intentional about, and it's time for you to discipline. that inner child inside of you. You love trying to discipline your own kids, telling them what they should and should not do. Discipline that inner child inside of you and stop throwing these damn temper tantrums every time something don't go your way. And if you struggle with making that happen, that's why the EI Guy is here. I got emotional intelligence books for you. I got a step-by-step framework to help you move the needle in your life so that you can practice emotional intelligence When you need it the most, because you know my ultimate goal is to make sure that you never let your emotions overpower your intelligence. Because no matter how smart you are, no matter where you are in life, when you let your emotions overpower your intelligence, that's how people are going to engage with you, and that's how you're going to be viewed from now on. So be a little bit more sharper about how you handle yourself. The name of the game is just to make sure that you are always able to respond with logic and not emotions. You heard it here first. Peace, and I'm out.
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
