Sometimes, we can be our own worst enemy.

Why have a nemesis who talks behind your back when you can do all the back-talking yourself, right?

And that's the problem with negative thinking. Many of us struggle with a toxic internal monologue that holds us back. We prevent ourselves from moving forward in life by repeating the same tired, self-flagellating negative statements to ourselves. And when we do this, we poison ourselves.

Emotional intelligence is a desirable trait, which allows us to gauge what's going on with those around us and to monitor our own internal landscape. That includes our internal monologue.

To be straight up with you, there's no point in modeling excellent emotional intelligence to those around us if we leave ourselves out of the fun.

So, this book is about a facet of emotional intelligence, which needs to be more thoroughly discussed - how to rid yourself of negative thoughts.

We're going to talk about the ground of emotional intelligence as your ability to regulate your emotions by being alive to them. But we're going a little further than that. We're going to teach you about how to motivate yourself despite your self-doubt and fear of moving forward.

These are skills you can learn and, in doing so, you'll multiply the valuable quality of emotional intelligence that's so necessary for your success in life.