No matter how much you work to improve your emotional intelligence, you’re going to make mistakes. A few weeks ago, I let my emotions get the best of me. Basically, I fell victim to shiny object ...

Making mistakes has a way of shaking our confidence and making us question ourselves. When we stumble, negative thoughts flood in telling us we should quit or that we're simply not good enough. But ...

Failures are a normal part of sports and performance. Discover what acceptance and commitment therapy has to offer about effectively adjusting to miscues and getting past them.

Everyone makes mistakes and children are no exception. What's important is how we learn from them. Yet, children grow up in a society that pressures them to be perfect and intelligent - to achieve the ...

As a middle school principal, there were times when parents fought hard to prevent me from disciplining their children for mistakes they made at school. These parents always thought they were acting ...

Needless to say, this isn’t the first time this has happened. It’s ironic considering that the very purpose of my work is to help others use emotional intelligence to avoid making mistakes like this.