The Relational Intelligence Podcast Minjote

In this week's episode we talk about insights on how to open our hearts and minds to simply having more fun. We go in depth about 5 strategies to help us along this process:1. Stop taking yourself so seriously - instead, be more childlike (when appropriate)2. Stop connecting with people on what's going badly - instead, connect on positive things 3. Commit to time away from your goals and obligations every day4. Shut off analysis-mode5. Try a complaint fastCatherine Price TED Talk: Why Having ...

In this week's episode we discuss eight strategies to help you resist temptation:Recall what tempts youInterject and redirect yourself before you engage with the temptation Plan to have healthy alternatives in placeIntroduce and welcome accountability partnersChallenge yourself for a set period of timeKeep the temptation out of reach Set your intention Create a rewards systemYou'll find in depth explanations and examples throughout the episode.

In this week's episode we speak to Angela Duckworth's book Grit. She outlines three different views of work - job, career, and calling. In her book, she speaks to the degree of grit involved at each level. I paralleled job, career, and calling to dating, relationships, and life partnership. We zoom out and take a look at what our expectations and investments look like at each level of romantic relationship.

I'm going to keep it straight with you - uncovering your true identity is going to take a lot of humility because it'll be a game of trial and error. This lifelong journey allows us to sift through all the filth that life, hurt, rejection, misunderstanding, and everything else that has covered up the beauty of who we really are.I intentionally titled this UNcovering your true Identity rather than DIScovering your true identity because it's already inside of you. We don't need to find it, we n...

In this week's episode we talk about our role in choosing not only who is in our lives, but how much access they have to us. I share my own framework for choosing people to do life with as a means to encourage others to understand their own relational needs.I mentioned a sermon from Pastor Travis Greene of Forward City Church that references what it means to have "diggers" in your life. Diggers are the people that will get down and dirty with you, the ones that will fight, work, push forward ...

In this week's episode we speak to both sides of pride (the good and the bad) and what it means to live a life of authentic humility.Pride is on a spectrum, there's healthy pride like self-respect, and there's unhealthy pride like arrogance. I don't know about you, but often when I hear people speak about pride, the negative side is the one being highlighted and I want to challenge that narrative. Can we really have humility without pride?