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Growth Opportunity: EQ Check-In

When things don’t go as planned emotions can be high and become unregulated. This is where it is even more critical than ever to tap into our self-awareness and management to optimize our social interactions and recover relationships.

It’s time to check back revisit your EQ testing – are you scoring the same or different?

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE CHECK IN

Review each situation or setting and rate how you would respond or how it reflects your typical reaction as
1-never; 2-rarely 3-sometimes; 4-usually; 5-always

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE CHECK IN

Interpreting your score

Now that you have reviewed, reflected and scored your personal response to each statement you know are able to better understand what this means for you. For each question place your score into the box into corresponds to. For example, If I gave myself a score of 5 for #1, I would place a 5 in the #1 in self-awareness and do the same for #5, #9, #12 and #15. Then add up the scores in each of the emotional intelligence dimensions to characterize how you find you are doing in each of these 4 areas. Any dimension where your score is less than 18 highlights a growth opportunity and area of focus that you can build upon.
Interpreting your score

Emotional Intelligence can develop with purposeful effort, feedback from others and resources directed at the domain that can improve. Even if you are above 18 in all areas there is always an opportunity to grow. Consider this a wild card and you get to choose your area of focus.

In order to be the best version of ourselves we need to take advantage of all 24 hours. No! I don’t mean curtailing sleep to get more done. I mean checking in on all our areas of wellness and also using sleep and circadian health as a tool to optimize our mood, behavior, function and performance. Here are some additional resources to consider using.

Instructions:

  1. Reflect on your overall wellness over the past 6-12 months based on the 8 pillars of wellness.
  2. Assign to each category behaviors, actions or variables that have influenced or represent that pillar of wellness for yourself.
  3. Evaluate the distribution of wellness fulfillment or gaps that exist across each pillar for you.
  4. If it asymmetrically distributed or imbalanced, write down strategies that may improve areas of deficit.
  5. If it is well distributed and symmetric, write down strategies to maintain that balance.
Wellness Check In
Sleep and Health Management

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