Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Recognize the importance of fitness for overall physical and mental health and job performance.
  2. Employ the self-leadership strategies presented in this book in the context of fitness.
  3. Explain the concept of emotional self-leadership.
  4. Contrast emotional intelligence with self-leadership.
  5. Describe the process through which self-leadership can help to facilitate stress coping.
  6. Recognize the relationships among optimism, explanatory style, and self-leadership.
  7. Describe the relationships among happiness, flow, and self-leadership.