A Talk About Emotional Intelligence
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No man is stronger than a man who has total control of his emotions. Most of the things we do, we don't wish to do them but we just find ourselves doing them. Like alcohol, drugs, premarital sex and smoking majority of people that do this stuffs knows the consequences of doing it, they can blurt out the consequences offhanded to a younger person who wants to give a try but despite knowing the consequences they can't stop themselves from doing it, why? Because their emotion pushes them into it.
That's why we catch pastors, counsellors and reputable men who are motivation to young people doing dirty stuffs in their closets, we are forced to think they are pretenders and hypocrites but getting closer to them, you realize their emotion makes them do those dirty stuffs and they do it against their wish.
It can be really hard resisting your emotions cus emotions is what makes us humans and as human beings we must have emotions and our emotions must direct us hence emotional intelligence isn't easy to achieve but it's not impossible to achieve either.
To achieve emotional intelligence, you must be determined. You can't just wake up and say I'm not taking alcohol again, trust me when the urge for alcohol comes, you will succumb into it because you will say only one bottle and that one bottle will end in three or more bottles. Be determined by making up your mind and if determination isn't enough, give it time. Don't expect to have control of your emotions in only a day, it's takes time. If short period of time isn't enough, then give it long period of time.
Finanly, Involve prayer, in achieving emotion intelligence we need God. Sometimes it's beyond our power to stop our emotions from controlling us and in such cases, we need the power of God. Pray about those ill habits you have tried to stop but you can't. Asking God for help makes achieving emotion intelligence easier than trying to do it all by ourselves.
Just imagine how beautiful life will be if we do only the things we wish to do and not the things our emotions tells us to do.