Your New Journey with Emotional Intelligence

Do you find it more challenging than ever to keep your emotions in check?

Is conflict becoming a bigger part of your life?

There's a lot of things going on in the world right now. There's a lot of conversations and rhetoric that can draw you in and get you feeling a certain way. And it's not always good for you, good for others, and good for the greater good.

Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Emotional Intelligence Master Coach Trainer, and I want to start our year together by helping you to navigate your emotions appropriately.  

Many years ago, I came across this thing called emotional intelligence, and if you've been following me for any period of time, you know that this is something that is very valuable in the work that I do.

It's something I focus on. But let me tell you, when I discovered emotional intelligence, I didn't know that it was such a thing and certainly didn't have any. So, if you feel a little bit like everything is just coming at you right now. You're getting more emotionally charged in situations. You are finding it a challenge to be able to let those emotions go where they need to go, and your feelings are not the ones that you want to feel.

This year could be your year to take it on as a challenge to develop your emotional intelligence skills. The beauty of these skills is that it doesn't matter whether you are 63 years of age or 21 or any age in between or on the other side of that, you can learn these skills. I love to dispel myths put out there that hold people back.

Myths like, well, you've either got emotional intelligence or you don't. You're born with it or you're not. That is not true. Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of what's going on for you emotionally in the moment. So right here, right now, what is it that you are experiencing? How's that making you think and how does that make you feel?

And then being able to use that awareness to have more beneficial relationships, to be able to control your behavior so that it gets you the results you want without all the conflict. Now, because I'm an emotional intelligence master and I do this work all around the world, quite often people will say to me, oh, well, you should never get upset.

No, it's not about that at all. I'm an emotional being just like every other human being. The difference now is I have strategies that I use to help me to be able to reconcile the sensations that I'm experiencing, take hold of my thoughts that are going in a direction where it's going to be unhealthy if they continue to go there and then quickly bring myself back on track.

I still get upset. It's just firstly what I allow to upset me that's changed and being able to draw it in and bring it back to logic rather than just heated up emotion. So, what I want to make sure that this year is all about is helping you and everyone else that's on this journey with me, to incrementally develop and grow in the skills, in the competencies of emotional intelligence friend.

Now more than ever, these skills are needed in this age of intelligence of generative and conversational AI that everyone is talking about. We need human intelligence, and the greatest intelligence that we have is our emotional intelligence. And alongside that, our social intelligence, our ability to get on with other people should be able to as mutually emotional people, as human beings.

To navigate what we are feeling, what we're experiencing, but also have empathy and understanding for what others could be going through as well.

2026 can be your best year ever. That's up to you. You've just gotta choose what it is that you're going to leave behind, what you're going to shift this year.

And I invite you to come on this journey step by step, and I want it to be a conversation. To get on my newsletter, I ask people to join the conversation and that's what I want you to do. I could just talk at you all year and you could hear that. And I quite often run into people in many places that I travel to around the world that go, ah, your Grant Herbert, The People Builder, I love listening to your videos.

Or they could be listening to my podcast, or whatever it is. And I feel like saying, well say Hi, leave a comment, ask a question because that's what I want it to be. I want it to be a conversation that you're a part of. And I have a community that I've set up online that is free for you to be a part of if you're interested in that.

No pitching, nothing to sell. It's just something that I love to do to empower people who don't get to work with me in our companies People Builders or the Professional Services Leadership Academy. I can still sow into their lives and get them involved in a conversation that's going to help them to enjoy, in fact, help you to enjoy, your 2026 much more than you would without these skills.

So, find somewhere under this video, under this podcast, wherever you are tuning in, to click on and go and have a listen and a look at what this community's about, or just hang around for my future videos. I'm going to put this out every month and some posts in between and do some live sessions and help people to be able to move forward with this.

So, come on the journey with us and let's make 2026 our best year ever.

I'll see you then.