... which are to understand yourself, your goals and your intentions and also to understand others and their feelings as well. Goleman (1998) states that by developing Emotional Intelligence we can become more productive and successful at what we do in our lives. People with high levels of EI have less emotional 'baggage', and conversely people with low EI tend to have personal unresolved issues which either act as a trigger or as a constants in personality make-up. Salovey and Mayer (1990 in Nicholas et al 2005) were the first people to come up with the term of Emotional Intelligence. They described EI as the ability to understand our own feelings and also the feeling of other people around us. In addition to that Goleman (1998) states that the best remedy for battling our emotional shortcomings is that we need to place as much importance on teaching our children the essential ...

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