Arlene’s Executive Leadership Training Tip
This week’s executive leadership training tip will concentrate on interest as another important emotion that creates positivity in our lives. Have you ever been so immersed in an activity that time and space alluded you? Most of us have, and had the wonderful experience of being drawn into something that makes you forget everything around you but what you are doing. Barbara Fredrickson Ph. D., author of the book “Positivity”, describes interest as “although you’re feeling perfectly safe, something new and different draws your attention, filling you with a sense of possibility or mystery.” When this happens you are in a very positive state. This state will grow and influence our minds differently.
Many of us have lost the ability to feel interest in anything but TV and overeating because we are stressed out and exhausted by the schedules we follow. When I do employee training and development, I emphasize the importance to your whole being of having outside interests other than work. Ask yourself, when was the last time you challenged yourself to learn or experience something new that helped you feel totally alert and alive? If it’s been awhile, then you need to figure out the reason you are holding back and not living the life you were meant to live.
