Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44766 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-01
• Binding: Pamphlet
• 16 pages

From the Author
These tips represent a distillation of everything I've learned in the last 8 years as a therapist, life coach and NLP trainer. They are designed to be practical and easy to use.

About the Author
Andy Smith is an NLP trainer and life coach based in Manchester, England. He runs courses in emotional intelligence and NLP for businesses and individuals. After many years in the stressful long-hours environment of the IT industry, Andy retrained as a stress management consultant and finally found the work he was born to do. He specialises in applying the practical findings of leading-edge disciplines such as NLP to developing emotional intelligence. Andy's corporate clients have included Sony, Mintel, GlaxoSmithKline, the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the National Health Service.

Excerpted from 55 Ways to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence by Andy Smith. Copyright © 2002. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Tip 14: Respect your body's natural cycle.

We have a natural cycle of rest and activity. Left to ourselves, we would have an hour and a half of activity followed by 20 minutes rest. The further we get from that natural cycle, the more stress we experience. So take a break in the middle of the morning and the middle of the afternoon, and leave work at a reasonable time.

Customer Reviews

Good info, but very, very short
Bear in mind that, although cheap, this is a booklet - it's 18 pages in all, and which makes it very tiny. Although some of the tips are clever and insightful, it's still a high price for the amount of content. Some of the tips are brief summaries of fairly complex techniques, and don't really give you enough to implement them. It appears to mostly be an advert for the authors training - if you know little about this topic already, this book won't help. It is a potentially useful summary of some basic ideas, however.

The reason why zero stars should become a rating
A dreadful pamphlet full of complete nonsense. Absolutely nothing new in this advert for Andy Smith and his EI / NLP ways. Wasn't even good as a background read or for something to fill 3 minutes of time with. Watching paint dry or a bulb blowing would be preferable and more informative. Do not waste your hard earned on this.

The Wisdom of EI in a nutshell
This is, without doubt, THE best value for money of any EI/EQ product I've come across.

It offers 55 basic tips to help you to develop your emotional intelligence, divided up under the headings used by Goleman in his best sellers on the subject.
Moreover these are 55 genuinely separate tips rather than just variations on a theme.

In my opinion, given the time of year and the increasingly stressful conditions many of us have to operate under in the workplace, and often elsewhere, this is a pefect gift for anyone who would like to have more control over the way they live their lives.

This would be a bargain if it cost twice as much. At this low price it's an absolute steal!