Emotional damage can be a two edged sword. It can sometimes drive us towards success or lead us away from it. The problem when you encounter emotional damage is that it doesn’t tell you whether it is good or bad for your financial success.
Your career or business success is determined by how well you can manage through your emotions. Emotional intelligence is what can make or break someone even if they have all the talents necessary to be successful. How well you are able to use those talents may be determined by your emotional aptitude.
Many people who are very intelligent can be bested by their emotions. Fear, shame, humiliation, anger, low self esteem. People sometimes say that their emotions got the best of them.
In sports people are always playing psychological games against the other team, in order to pull them off of their “A’ game. The better you can manage through the emotional crisis, the faster you can get to your “A” game.
And sometimes your emotions can help you focus or push yourself to do more. So the key is to know when your emotions are holding you back and when your emotions can spur you on to do more.
Assess your emotional strengths and weaknesses today. See which ones spur you on to higher levels of performance and which ones slow you down or even put the brakes on your career or business advancement. Your wealth quotient can significantly improve as you remove or reduce the emotional damage that is holding you back.