Chapter 6” Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence” discuses some principles that teacher as leaders should have and how to utilize mindfulness to improve these principles. After reading the chapter, I found out that I need to enhance and adopt some of the principles to improve my leadership life. The most important principles that I think I need to adopt are self-awareness, and empathy. To be self-aware means to be conscious at all times. In order to have self-awareness as a leader I should realize my strength, weakness and how my behavior impact others. Thus, to be self-aware as a leader I have to focus my attention on the immediate experience and notice others emotions and thoughts without judging. When having self-awareness
