Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

Being emotionally agile involves being sensitive to context and responding to the world as it is right now.

Many people, much of the time, operate on emotional autopilot, reacting to situations without true awareness or even real volition.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Emotional agility means having any number of troubling thoughts or emotions and still managing to act in a way that serves how you most want to live. That’s what it means to step out and off the hook.

Emotional agility means being aware and accepting of all your emotions, even learning from the most difficult ones. It also means getting beyond conditioned or preprogrammed cognitive and emotional responses (your hooks) to live in the moment with a clear reading of present circumstances, respond appropriately, and then act in alignment with your d