Emotional Maturity Quiz

Let’s take an emotional maturity quiz to determine some hidden aspects within our emotional makeup. When we are triggered in any way, it is so easy to find the cause outside of ourselves and play the “Blame Game”.

But this gets old after a while because it does not alleviate the situation. We do not feel any better when we don’t accept responsibility for our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Why Take an Emotional Maturity Quiz?

“Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.”

— Travis Bradberry —

For one thing, we can clarify the true cause of our feelings. Quite often we may be baffled by how we feel and how we automatically react to situations.

Clarifying the cause of our emotional state can help us in many ways. It will lead us to our core beliefs underlying our thoughts and feelings.

By digging deeper and questioning why we feel as we do we are led to these core beliefs. Once discovered, we can determine which ones serve us and which don’t.

Eliminating beliefs that are based on misperceptions of reality goes a long way in reducing stress and uncertainty. Living authentically requires us to know ourselves.

Attaining Emotional Intelligence (EI)

“Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.”

— John Rampton —

An understanding of Emotional intelligence (EI) is required to get the best results from an emotional maturity quiz. The quiz itself may appear simple, but the understanding of its essence is what transforms our lives.

To handle life’s challenges and stressful situations we must understand that a high level of emotional intelligence is required. EI is the ability to understand and control our emotions.

Ways to Develop Emotional Intelligence (EI)

• Respond rather than React — this can take a little practice since when we are triggered by a person or event most of us are conditioned to react defensively. Our Fight/Flight mechanism kicks in. By observing our reactions we can eventually get to the point of pausing before we react so that we can make a conscious choice of how we desire to respond so that a win-win scenario is set up.
• Increase Awareness — by observing our thoughts and actions daily we not only begin to respond, rather than react, but we also discover the core beliefs that we hold that are responsible for these thoughts and emotions.
• Be Adaptable — when we are flexible in handling life’s challenges we are willing to adapt to change. Change is going to occur anyway, so we can either adapt or resist. This also helps with handling uncertainty by focusing on the task at hand.
• Optimistic Outlook — seeing the glass half full rather than half empty empowers us to be solution-oriented rather than getting caught up with problems.
• Generosity — this is not only about money but having an empathetic view toward life and being willing to share with and assist others in need.
• Communication — our willingness to share our feelings enables us to be authentic with ourselves and others.
• Honesty — when we are honest with ourselves about how we feel we can experience that our thoughts and feelings do not define us. We are the observer or witness of these thoughts and feelings and when we allow them to flow without undue attention we do not get caught up in the quagmire of negativity.
• Remain Present — when we remind ourselves to stay in the present moment more often we are then able to experience our emotions and “respond “with emotional maturity. Simply by asking ourselves, “Am I present now?” consistently will increase our time spent in the Now.
• Requesting Help as Needed — getting feedback from others can help us understand more clearly how our emotions are affecting us. At times, professional assistance may help in sorting things out.

Let’s Take an Emotional Maturity Quiz

“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”

— Daniel Goleman —

Emotional maturity is not over-rated; if anything it is quite often ignored. Let’s take a short quiz and see how things develop.

1. Do I react, or pause and respond when under stress and pressure?
2. How have I handled past challenging experiences?
3. How do I react or respond to uncertainty or when plans suddenly change?
4. How do I handle criticism?
5. Can I remember a time when I was empathetic with another person’s challenges?
6. How do I handle disagreements, disappointments, and conflicts?
7. Do I see failure as a necessary aspect of success?
8. Am I able to manage my anger?
9. How do I interact with others when I am upset?
10. How do I handle chaotic situations that get out of control?
11. Can I function in my personal and business life when experiencing strong emotions?

Reviewing Our Emotional Maturity Quiz

“This life is not man’s own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine ‘plot.'”

— Paramahansa Yogananda —

Many of us take life much too seriously and just by lightening up a bit, taking our foot off the gas, and simply being relaxed and present, we will experience a world of difference in our everyday affairs. This emotional maturity quiz is not to be rated or scored; its purpose is to bring awareness to how we feel and think moment-to-moment.

When we have our cards on the table so to speak, we are not denying what is evident to others if not to ourselves. This empowers us to make constructive changes as needed.

We benefit from greater peace of mind and harmonious relationships in our personal and business lives. Even more important we are being true to ourselves.

No longer are we governed and controlled by past painful experiences. Although long gone, we keep them alive in our memories.

When exposed we can then consciously choose to let all these remnants from the past go. We are now free to live an authentic life expressing our true talents and abilities in the present moment.

I encourage all to take this emotional maturity quiz and see what comes up. Life is much more pleasant when we are not pretending, but living from the core of our inner power and joy.

Peace and Love with the Light,

Joseph William

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