CHAPTER 10

Life Balance and Time Management

Introduction

Though the title initially refers to time management, the core of the chapter is emotional intelligence, which is one of the most popular topics in the personal development area since the 1980s.

Time management means essentially the capacity to set up the right order of priorities and, consequently, to put in order our daily agenda. In simple words, it implies to do the right thing, at the right time, and with the right doses.

This is the core of emotional intelligence: the capacity to rationally control our irrational impulses in order to deliver what is right. In our understanding, emotional intelligence as such is a misleading name, as emotional intelligence is broader than the control ...

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