Wellbeing | Collaborative Growth

Manage Your Resilience Meter: Your Guide to Positivity, Productivity and Well-Being

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Managing resilience in today’s challenging world of high expectations and significant discord is tough. Change and challenge happen whether it comes from elections, a new organizational program being unveiled, a complete reshuffle due to a merger or parents moving into a care facility. Too often the challenges become just …

Top 10 Reasons for Playing and Expanding Your Well-Being!

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Play feels good and makes you happy! Happy is good! Good for your health, for your decision-making, for your relationships … Heck, what isn’t it good for? It’s good for our world economy – a stretch? Maybe, but what about the recreation dollars we spend even if we’re just …

10 Actions to Make Your 2021 a Year of Authentic Success

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell How was your 2020? We know it was disruptive and even frightening for many in the world. There is a strong sense of love and community engagement. Yet, there’s also a strong sense of divisiveness in communities and nations, war, displacement, financial troubles. Instead of continuing to list and …

Emotionally Intelligent Holidays to You! OR An EQ Recipe for Cooking Up a Great Holiday

We are delighted to wish you the happiest and most joyous holiday season ever! It’s quite possible that this past year has tested your Flexibility or Optimism (or Impulse Control!). We suspect you could use a little bit of holiday. And just in case the power of our wishing one for you isn’t quite enough, …

Building Team Resilience Through Positive Mood

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Positive attitudes on your team will build resilience and impact every dimension of team work. Positivity will impact how well people get along with one another, how pleased they are to be on the team, their motivation and their creative thinking. That is why this is one of the …

Wellbeing and Stress Management Skills

Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles that explores the connections between the EQi 2.0 and wellbeing. Each article focuses on one of the 5 EQi composite areas or the Wellbeing Indicator, which includes the vital skill of happiness. In this time of challenging opportunities – the pandemic, the resulting economic consequences …

Wellbeing and Decision Making Skills

Thriving in Challenging Time with Emotional Intelligence

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Emotions play a role in decision making in many ways, both subtle and more apparent, practical and not so practical, all of which make emotions not merely a player in the process of reasoning, but an indispensable player. Antonio Damasio, Leading Neuroscientist Note: This is the fourth in a …

Wellbeing and Interpersonal Skills

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep …

Wellbeing and Self-Expression

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Note: Now more than ever with a world pandemic underway, it’s time to focus on our own wellbeing. By taking care of ourselves, we are stronger, more patient, and happier. Then we can offer the world all our gifts to promote healing. This is the second in a series …

Wellbeing and Self-Perception

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Now more than ever with a world pandemic underway, it’s time to focus on our own wellbeing. By taking care of ourselves, we are stronger, more patient, and happier. Then we can offer the world all our gifts for healing. This and the next several articles will focus on …