SELF

“If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you’re doing. Love what you’re doing. And believe in what you’re doing.” – Will Rogers

Self-awareness is the cornerstone of becoming a SMARTER person. Self-awareness starts with understanding your natural passions and how best to develop these passions into career skills in a global economy. The following tools and resources will increase self-knowledge about the seven SMARTER skills every employer wants!

To understand how to use the SMARTER Strengths tools, refer to Chapters 1-4 in Smart2Smarter. Don’t have the Smart2Smarter book?

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Introduction:

• Want to learn about Goleman’s EQ Model?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• What does career success and significance mean to you?    [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• How do you rate on the SMARTER Social and Emotional Skills Every Employer Wants?     [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• What are your career strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats?  [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• SMARTER Focus and Impact   

Chapter 2/Iceberg:

• Every Iceberg has a Story     [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 

Chapter 3/Personal Best:

• How can you ignite your passion?     [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• What can you and your workplace do to awaken a climate of significance?  [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• What are the actions you need to do, be and have to obtain a “best-fit”  worklife?    [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Workplace Engagement and Personal Best Zone Assessment and Guide.     [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]  Free when you join Smart2Smarter Community ($7.99 value)! Just want to purchase the guide?  Click here.

Chapter 4/Strengths:

• Do you know how your passion, performance, people, purpose and lifestyle fit?   
• How to Reflect and Envision Your Future?   
• Career Health Inventory.  Free for premium members when you join Smart2Smarter Community ($7.99 value)!  Just want to purchase the guide? Click here to purchase.

Mastery

“If neither the positive or negative future has happened, then why not choose to  believe in the positive future? The key word is “choose!” – Cynthia Kivland

So you have to make a choice, and this choice determines whether you thrive or survive. The key is how you choose to master your emotional brain. According to Joshua Freedman, COO Six Seconds, fear and hope both have something in common: a future that has not happened. Fear believes in a future with limited options. Hope believes in a future with possibilities. When you master the intelligence of your emotions and social connections, you live in an environment that lets you breathe and develop your greatness.

To understand how to use the SMARTER Mastery tools, refer to Chapter 5 in Smart2Smarter. Don’t have the Smart2Smarter book?

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Chapter 5 – Mastery:

• Learn how to imagine and conquer your fears.   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• How to use your emotions to choose the thrive over survive path.   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Learn how to re-route that negative thought! [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this tool and 42 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• How can you stop the fear noise?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Take these six steps to emotional mastery. [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this tool and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• What Drama Game Are You Playing?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• What are your self-defeating behaviors?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• How does your brain’s amygdala hijack your best self? [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this tool and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.

Attraction

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”   – Mark Twain

Greatness is a state of being that is experienced when you attract the people, experiences and outcomes that bring out your personal best and the personal best of others. It is not a condition of achievement. You have an understanding of how to help others be great. The Universal Law of Attraction states that you attract or distract everything that happens in your life – and what you can do to deliberately attract more of what we really want.

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Chapter 6 – Attraction:

• Do You Attract Optimism?    [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• How to write a Personal Attraction Statement (PAS).   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• What are five steps to attract greatness?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• How does your gremlin speak distract your greatness? [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this coaching tool and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• What can I do to manage my gremlin? [Content protected for Premium members only]   Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• Where am I on the positive and negative Attraction Loop?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• How can I be intentional about attracting optimism?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• What actions can I design to attract my greatness?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• What are the 28 principles to attract more greatness? [Content protected for Premium members only]   Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• What work engagement values attract your Greatness: Workplace Engagement Values Assessment and Guide.  To receive this full guide ($7.99 value) and 40 more SMARTER EQ tools, become a premium member.Just want to purchase the guide? Click here.

Resilience

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

Resilience is the ability to persevere and adapt when things aren’t going the way we’d like. It is mentally, and often physically, stepping back, to examine and reflect on a situation and then, determine the best action. When we act resiliently, we act from a proactive place of power instead of a reactive place of fear.

These tools will help you explore resilience from a proactive not reactive mindset and behavior. You will learn that resilience is the ability to PERSIST even when things are happening just like you expected them to; to NAVIGATE through uncertain and unpredictable times; to TRANSCEND common problems and barriers; and to build RESERVES to thrive in the future.

To understand how to use the SMARTER Resilience tools, refer to Chapter 7 in Smart2Smarter.

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Chapter 7 – Resilience:

• Assess Your Resilience Reserve and Develop an Action Plan   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Do You Have the Five Hardiness Factors for Resilience?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Ready to Get Unstuck – What is Your Pattern?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Ten Questions to Help You Get Unstuck – and Move On   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Do You Have These Stress Warning Signs?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• What Are You Thinking – Gloom, Doom, or Bloom [Content protected for Premium members only]   Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• Assess Your Career Resilience  [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• Understand the Ten Stages of a Career Transition [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• Key Questions to Lead Change   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 

“Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free . . . your true self comes out.” – Tina Turner

Tolerance

“Talent, skills or personality do not explain why some of us continue to thrive and evolve. When you reach for your goals or dreams and comfort zones expand, amazingly you will find ways to breathe.” – Cynthia Kivland

Tolerance is the ability to accept, acknowledge and appreciate different cultures, people, ideas, perspectives and beliefs. Put simply, it is the ability to cultivate opportunities through diverse people, events and experiences. Tolerance is also the ability to recognize and eliminate behaviors, thoughts and habits that hold you back from being your personal best. The tools below provide a first step on how to develop tolerance.

To understand how to use the SMARTER Tolerance tools, refer to Chapter 8 in Smart2Smarter.

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Chapter 8 -Tolerance Tools:

• What are the signs of unhealthy tolerations?  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• What are the paths to develop empathy?  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• Twenty Ways to eliminate tolerations. [Content protected for Premium members only]   Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• What are you tolerating that holds you back? [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• Top ten ways to increase your social awareness skills.  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• Tolerant Communication Handbook:    Become a premium member to receive this guide (value $7.99)  and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.  Just want to purchase the guide? Click here.
• Stop tolerating – use these 20 toleration busters!  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• How is your life aligned with your priorities? Find out with the Wheel of Life Realignment.  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• Should I Stay or Should I Go Career Guide.  [Content protected for Premium members only]   Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• Workplace Empathy Questionnaire    .[/nonmember. Coming soon.  Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools

Evolve

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. ” – Mark Victor Hansen.

All behavior is driven by emotional energy that moves you toward or away from a desired goal. Emotionally healthy people achieve their goals unless they allow distracting or hi jacking “energy” to disengage their passion, steering one of the path of evolution. Evolution tools explore the process of personal, professional, spiritual and relational evolution by using the intelligence of emotions to thrive and not just survive. The smarter definition of evolution is the ability to continuously improve, initiate and innovate. There is no end game when evolving.

To understand how to use the SMARTER Evolution tools, refer to Chapters 9 in Smart2Smarter. Don’t have the Smart2Smarter book?

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Chapter 9 – Evolve Tools:

• How to Attract Innovation Habits.  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• Self Reflection or Coaching Questions to Evolve Your Greatness.  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• Are you developing a SMARTER Evolution Plan?  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• Are your Emotional Energy patterns evolving or sabotaging your greatness?  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• Evolution Action Planning Questions to Ask and Answer.  [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]
• Evolutionary Distinctions and Coaching Guide. [Content protected for Premium members only]   Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• How is Your Career Health?  Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools. Click here to purchase. (Free for premium members.)

Reciprocity

“Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships.”  – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945

Why should you care about developing the smarter skill of Reciprocity? When people feel good, they work better, are more creative and productive. Good feelings are like lubrication for the brain – mental efficiency goes up, memory is sharpened, and people can understand directions and make better decisions. Studies have shown this to be true when it comes to the ability to lead and be led. Emotions are contagious.

To understand how to use the SMARTER Reciprocity tools, refer to Chapters 10 in Smart2Smarter. Don’t have the Smart2Smarter book?  Click to purchase: Paperback & Kindle

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Chapter 10 – Reciprocity Tools:

• Energy to Lead and be Led.    [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• What Derails your ability to Lead and be Led? [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this tool and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• Social Reciprocity and The Digital You. [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• The T Method of Giving Feedback.   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Coaching tool for Authentic Communication.   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Do you Have the Capacity to Trust? [Content protected for Premium members only]  Become a premium member to receive this guide and 20 more SMARTER EQ tools.
• How to Hire for Reciprocity.   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Why Smart Leaders Fail.    [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.] 
• Are You Hijacking your Relationships?   [Content protected for Basic and Premium members only.]