The Good, Better, BEST Model

The 9 Layers of Intelligence

IQ:

Knowledge: Good

Applied knowledge: Better 

Life + knowledge smarts from wise and opposing perspectives: BEST

 

Achievement Intelligence:

Survival: Good

Meaning: Better

Purpose: BEST

Work hard if you must, but working smart is more enjoyable.

 

Leadership Intelligence:

Growth: Good

Achievement with positive impact: Better

Build champions at scale: BEST

 

Emotional Intelligence/EQ/Wellbeing: In a near-crisis mode with kids and adults.

Self-aware of the good, bad, and ugly attributes, personally: Good

Others aware of the good, bad, and ugly: Better

Aware and well regulated: BEST

 

Relational Intelligence:

Committed to health if in a partnership: Good

Developed and prioritized for health: Better

Thriving as individuals and as a team: BEST

This often requires having good role models, strong emotional intelligence/EQ, and requires strong skills in communication and conflict. ~12% are expected to be at this level but anyone with courage and willingness can arrive here. These relationships impact wellbeing more than any other factor according to the longest study ever conducted by Harvard spanning over 70 years. Muy importante!

 

Love Intelligence:

Brotherly/likability: Good

Unconditional/committed: Better

Intimate: BEST

Intimacy runs so much deeper than physical. Requires high levels of EQ.

High-quality intimate relationships have all three levels in harmony.

Health Intelligence:

Body emphasis: Good

Body and mind together: Better

Body, Mind and Spirit: BEST

 

Spiritual Intelligence:

Expands beyond the 5 senses above natural abilities into the supernatural realm.

Benefits can be for now and extend eternal, depending on the source.

Commitment to understanding: Good

Divine standards: Better

Limitless: BEST

 

Financial Intelligence:

Abundance to meet the needs and some wants too: Good

Stewardship: Better

Generous giver: BEST

Secular studies show that nothing produces more dopamine (pleasure chemical) than giving. This is a standard measurement of heart health spiritually speaking. 

Regret-free is the best way to be! The restore sessions will take you higher.