Posts Tagged With ‘ emotional-intelligence ’

  In learning how to fly an airplane, one of the first lessons has to do with understanding winds. Winds come in basically three types; Head winds – those hit you right in the face Tail winds – those from behind Cross winds – those at angles from the side I believe the challenges we face in life and in business model these three types of wind as well. If we consider all the forms of challenge we face, we can boil it down into these three categories. However, it might be interesting to compare the pilot’s concern with each of these winds as we think about our daily responses to life’s... Continue Reading

This is what you get when you ask BingChat to create an image of half life in relation to friendships Somehow I ended up spending over 12 hours of my Saturday writing emails. That’s longer than I spend working on most work days; so why did I do it? What were the emails about? They were emails to all my key clients, connections and former work colleagues giving them my yearly New Year’s greetings. I used to do it as a Christmas card but switched to a New Year message a few years back because I found myself too busy at Christmas and because the people receiving it were being inundated by other... Continue Reading

GenAI helped me with an image of a panda dwelling over failure whilst everyone around him is cheerful It’s the morning of the first working Monday of 2024 and I have chosen to spend it writing my first blog of the year, but what should the topic be? This time of year there’s a lot written about resolutions, that could be a topic. Are you a resolutions kind of person? I’m not and I’ve already written about that topic 2 years ago so this blog will not be about that; plus many of you may have already given up on your resolutions anyway I am a person who loves setting myself goals and,... Continue Reading

#PositivePalestinian — What it’s like to be a “high-profile” Palestinian small business owner right now This is not really how you should wear a keffiyeh I don’t consider myself to be a high-profile Palestinian (I mean I am no Bella Hadid despite what my mum tells me about my good looks) but it has become abundantly clear that for many of my connections, I am one of the most prominent real-life Palestinians that they have ever met — that’s clearly what happens when you post so much on social media. Take this morning for example; I woke up to a text from a friend who is... Continue Reading

How much for a coffee?? There are times when my culture and my business sense clash None more so than when it comes to paying for meals and coffees. Why is this a thing? As a start-up founder, who also happens to be single, I go for a lot of coffees and meals; either they are as part of business development or on a date [I can assure you both are as enjoyable as each other 🙂]. Either way, I want them to go well so a key consideration is who pays for the coffee or the meal. The Arab upbringing in me is screaming that I should pay; it would be disrespectful (on so many levels) to let the... Continue Reading

EQ reflections: We all set the tone for the conversations we are about to have; we just don’t necessarily realise it Today I wrote 2 birthday cards; both were blank inside so I could have written absolutely anything. What I wrote really influenced the conversation that followed and that’s the same in life Did you know that if you ask someone to name the 7 dwarves or the 7 deadly sins, apparently the order they list them in is linked to what’s on their mind and which of those traits they most currently associate with. So, if your respondent says “Sleepy” or “gluttony” for example... Continue Reading

“Are you ok?” Why it’s so hard to honestly answer that question as a Palestinian living outside Palestine right now* This book was a bedrock for my undergrad dissertation “Faris? That’s a cool name. Where is it from?” “It’s Arabic,” I respond, bracing myself for the next question. “Oh, which part of the Middle East are you from?” “I’m Palestinian” Prior to recent incidents, a typical response would then have been: “Oh, you don’t sound Palestinian.” [As if Palestinians can’t have a crisp British accent🤦🏻‍♂️]… Nowadays the standard response... Continue Reading

Emotions are strong contenders in how we live our lives. They are an inward feeling and an outward reflection of how activities affect us. When working towards achieving your business goals, you are mostly told that having the willpower and determination to achieve these goals can improve your performance and set you on the path… Read More The post 5 Ways Emotional Intelligence Can Help You to Succeed appeared first on The Accountability Coach. Originally Published on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/ Continue Reading

Anyone need a newspaper from 2019? Where do you sit on the minimalist vs hoarding spectrum? I am firmly a person who holds onto items and takes the philosophy of “if it still has some utility, then why throw it out?” [my siblings may tell you that is because I’m a cheapskate but don’t listen to them 🤣] Recently however (as some of you may know), I moved flats and that led to a downsizing of space so it very much challenged the above philosophy. I had to look at each and every item in my flat critically to determine whether it had sufficient utility to make the move with me. As I moved... Continue Reading

The source of so much pleasure and pain The title of this week’s blog could easily be “How life is just a series of challenges for you to overcome”. As you can work out from the title, I’ve had a deeply frustrating week being completely disconnected from all forms of the internet. Yep, you read that right, no internet at home, no internet at work (because work is home) and no internet on my phone when out and about (the near perfect storm). Before I get to how this came about let me mix things up and outline from the start the top 8 lessons I’ve taken from this incident Having limited... Continue Reading